Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy: Recent submissions
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Continuous colonization of the Atlantic coastal rain forests of South America from Amazônia
(The Royal Society, 22 January 2025)The two main extensions of rain forest in South America are the Amazon (Amazônia) and the Atlantic rain forest (Mata Atlântica), which are separated by a wide 'dry diagonal' of seasonal vegetation. We used the species-rich ... -
Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests
(Nature Research, 10 March 2025)Wood density is a critical control on tree biomass, so poor understanding of its spatial variation can lead to large and systematic errors in forest biomass estimates and carbon maps. The need to understand how and why ... -
Climate change, intergenerational fairness, and the promises and pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence
(Springer, 9 April 2025)Among his many achievements, Daniel Kahneman will be remembered for his fundamental contribution to the economics of fairness with its many far-reaching applications. In this paper, I focus on intergenerational fairness ... -
Using deep reinforcement-learning to discover a dynamic resource allocation policy that promotes sustainable human exchange
(Nature Research, 22 March 2025)A canonical social dilemma arises when resources are allocated to people, who can either reciprocate with interest or keep the proceeds. The right resource allocation mechanisms can encourage levels of reciprocation that ... -
Humoral immunity in insects: Antimicrobial peptides and other host defense peptides
(Elsevier, 4 April 2025)The discovery of antimicrobial peptides in insects in the 1980s helped lay the foundation for the field of humoral innate immunity in animals. These molecules were first identified owing to their microbe-killing activity, ...