Tropic Chats
Tropic Chats
A Laurance Lab Production
Join us for Tropic Topics where we will explore the cutting edge research taking place in the field of Tropical and Environmental Sustainability Science. We will be talking to leading scientists, summarizing seminars, and discussing research in bitesize chunks so you can keep up to date.
Bees flourish under human activity
This episode takes a look at recent study done by published in Molecular Ecology which investigates how human activities in Fiji helped the native bees flourish. Host: Nina TaylorStory Source: Science DailyScript supervisors: Raiyan Talkhani & Nina Taylor A Laurance Lab Production
Aug 3, 2021
2 min
Dr. Daniel Montesinos take on invasive species of plants.
In this episode, we summaries the content of the seminar given by Dr. Daniel Montesinos on his paper titled, "Fast invasives fastly become faster: Invasive plants align largely with the fast side of the plant economics spectrum." 
Jul 21, 2021
5 min
Ghost Roads and the survival of the tropics (Jayden Engert).
In this episode, we interview a PhD student, Jayden Engert, about his research on quantifying the environmental impacts of roads on tropics. 
Jul 21, 2021
12 min
Impact of 2019-2020 mega fires and droughts for plant conservation in Australia.
This episode is a review of paper written by Dr. Robert Godfree which study the impacts mega fires on the conservation of plants. 
Jul 21, 2021
3 min