Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

• cecilia.dahlsjo@ouce.ox.ac.uk

• Ecosystems Theme

Cecilia compiles and manages Global Ecosystems Monitoring (GEM) data with a focus on the impact of the recent El Niño event. Her main interests include bottom-up approaches to ecosystem functioning and sustainable farming in the tropics. Particularly, Cecilia has been focusing on the role of decomposer organisms in both pristine and managed ecosystems around the world.

2021

• Malhi, Y., Girardin, C., Metcalfe, D.B., Doughty, C.E., Aragão, L.E.O.C., Rifai, S.W., Oliveras, I., Shenkin, A., Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Riutta, T., Berenguer, E., Moore, S., Huaraca Huasco, W., Salinas, N., da Costa, A.C.L., Bentley, L.P., Adu-Bredu, S., Marthews, T.R., Meir, P. and Phillips, O.L. (2021) The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics. Biological Conservation, 253. 108889.

2020

• Dahlsjo C. and Kitching, R. (2020) Volume 52, Issue 2: Special Issue: The Future of Tropical Invertebrate Research. Biotropica, 52(2): 203-395.
• Dahlsjo, C.A.L., Eggleton, P. and Kitching, R. (2020) Tropical terrestrial invertebrates: Where to from here? Biotropica, 52(2): 392-395.
• Dahlsjo, C.A.L., Stiblik, P., Jaklova, J., Zidek, M., Huaycama, J.W., Lojka, B. and Houska, J. (2020) The local impact of macrofauna and land use intensity on soil nutrient concentration and exchangeability in lowland tropical Peru. Biotropica, 52(2): 242-251.
• Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Valladares Romero, C.S. and Espinosa Iñiguez, C-I. (2020) Termite Diversity in Ecuador: A Comparison of Two Primary Forest National Parks. Journal of Insect Science, 20(1).
• Hood, A.S.C., Pashkevich, M.D., Dahlsjo, C.A.L., Advento, A.D., Ketut Aryawan, A.A., Caliman, J.P., Naim, M., Head, J.J. and Turner, E.C. (2020) Termite mounds house a diversity of taxa in oil palm plantations irrespective of understory management. Biotropica, 52(2): 345-350.
• Kitching, R.L., Dahlsjo, C.A.L. and Eggleton, P. (2020) Invertebrates and the complexity of tropical ecosystems. Biotropica, 52(2): 207-214.

2019

• Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Stiblik, P., Jaklová, J., Zídek, M., Wicman Huaycama, J., Lojka, B. and Houška, J. (2019) The local impact of macrofauna and land‐use intensity on soil nutrient concentration and exchangeability in lowland tropical Peru. Biotropica.
• Liang, B., Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Maguire-Rajpaul, V., Malhi, Y. and Liu, S. (2019) Modelling error evaluation of ground observed vegetation parameters. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

2018

• Bourguignon, T., Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Salim, A. and Evans, T.A. (2018) Termite diversity and species composition in heath forests, mixed dipterocarp forests, and pristine and selectively logged tropical peat swamp forests in Brunei. Insectes Sociaux: 1-6.
• Palma-Onetto, V., Hoskova, K., Krizkova, B., Krejcirova, R., Pflegerova, J., Bubenickova, F., Plarre, R., Dahlsjo, C., Synek, J., Bourguignon, T., Sillam-Dusses, D. and Sobotnik, J. (2018) The labral gland in termite soldiers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
• Rifai, S.W., Girardin, C.A.J., Berenguer, E., del Aguila-Pasquel, J., Dahlsjo, C.A.L., Doughty, C.E., Jeffery, K.J., Moore, S., Oliveras, I., Riutta, T., Rowland, L.M., Murakami, A.A., Addo-Danso, S.D., Brando, P., Burton, C., Ondo, F.E., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Amezquita, F.F., Freitag, R., Pacha, F.H., Huasco, W.H., Ibrahim, F., Mbou, A.T., Mihindou, V.M., Peixoto, K.S., Rocha, W., Rossi, L.C., Seixas, M., Silva-Espejo, J.E., Abernethy, K.A., Adu-Bredu, S., Barlow, J., da Costa, A.C.L., Marimon, B.S., Marimon, B., Meir, P., Metcalfe, D.B., Phillips, O.L., White, L.J.T. and Malhi, Y. (2018) ENSO drives interannual variation of forest woody growth across the tropics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 373(1760).

2017

• Bourguignon, T., Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Jacquemin, J., Gang, L., Wijedasa, L.S. and Evans, T.A. (2017) Ant and termite communities in isolated and continuous forest fragments in Singapore. Insectes Sociaux, 64: 505-514.
• Wen, X-L., Ping, W., Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Sillam-Dussès, D. and Šobotník, J. (2017) Breaking the cipher: ant eavesdropping on the variational trail pheromone of its termite prey. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 284(1853).
• Šobotnik, J. and Dahlsjö, C.A.L. (2017) Isoptera. In, Levin, S.A. (ed.) In Encyclopaedia of Biodiversity (Third Edition). Academic Press.

2016

• Bourguignon, T., Šobotník, J., Dahlsjö, C.A.L. and Roisin, Y. (2016) The soldierless Apicotermitinae: insights into a poorly known and ecologically dominant tropical taxon. Insectes Sociaux, 63: 39-50.
• Dahlsjö, C.A.L. (2016) Head width–body mass equation: facilitating worker termite biomass estimates. Ecological Entomology, 41(6).

2015

• Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Parr, C.L., Malhi, Y., Meir, P. and Eggleton, P. (2015) Describing termite assemblage structure in a Peruvian lowland tropical rain forest: a comparison of two alternative methods. Insectes Sociaux, 62(2): 141-150.
• Dhalsjo, C.A.L., Parr, C.L., Malhi, Y., Meir, P., Rahmann, H. and Eggleton, P. (2015) Density-body mass relationships: Inconsistent intercontinental patterns among termite feeding-groups. Acta Oecologica, 63: 16-21.
• Moorhouse, T.P., Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Baker, S.E., D'Cruze, N.C. and Macdonald, D.W. (2015) The Customer Isn't Always Right—Conservation and Animal Welfare Implications of the Increasing Demand for Wildlife Tourism. PLoS One.

2014

• Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Parr, C.L., Malhi, Y., Meir, P., Chevarria, O.V.C. and Eggleton, P. (2014) Termites promote soil carbon and nitrogen depletion: Results from an in situ macrofauna exclusion experiment, Peru. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 77: 109-111.
• Dahlsjö, C.A.L., Parr, C.L., Malhi, Y., Rahman, H., Meir, P., Jones, D.T. and Eggleton, P. (2014) First comparison of quantitative estimates of termite biomass and abundance reveals strong intercontinental differences. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 30(02): 143-152.