Jayden Engert | Explore Conservation Solutions Today

Jayden Engert: tropical forest ecologist and conservation spatial scientist.

My main research interests are in how political and economic aspects shape the delivery of ecological restoration and conservation schemes.

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Research Themes

A bar graph comparing seedling production in nurseries and their functional traits, showing the percentage of seedlings from Australian Wet Tropics in 2012-2016, with labels for nursery, canopy, and emergent, and statistical annotations.

Publications

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Media

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Blog

Latest Publications

Screenshot of a research article from PNAS titled 'Road expansion risk predicts future hotspots of tropical deforestation' with authors' names and affiliations.

Cover page of a research paper titled 'Seed collection practices in tropical rainforest restoration and implications for provenance research' by authors Jayden F. Engert, Kali Middleby, Nara Vogado, and Susan G.W. Lourance.

Screenshot of a scientific report titled 'Explosive growth of secondary roads is linked to widespread tropical deforestation' from 'Current Biology', listing authors Jayden E. Engert, Carlos M. Souza J., Fritz Leinischcroth, Diego Juffe Bignoli, Stefany C.P. Costa, Jonas Botelho Jr., F. Yoko Ishida, Ilyas Nusumsar. The institutions include Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, and Leibniz Universität Hannover.