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  • China Scholarship Council and University of Exeter PhD Scholarships 2026 entry

    China Scholarship Council and University of Exeter PhD Scholarships 2026 entry

    中国国家留学基金委和英国埃克塞特大学合作奖学金(博士生项目) Prof Ted Feldpausch is recruiting students for the China Scholarship Council and University of Exeter PhD Scholarships. Full-time PhD scholarships are available in collaboration with the China Scholarship Council (CSC), for September 2026/27 entry. The PhD projects focus on a range of themes related to fire, land-use change, tree mortality, carbon cycling, and forest degradation and forest…


  • High-elevation tropical forest soils in Colombian Andes store nine times more pyrogenic carbon than Amazonian forests

    High-elevation tropical forest soils in Colombian Andes store nine times more pyrogenic carbon than Amazonian forests

    The soil in high-elevation, cooler, drier tropical forests in the Colombian Andes stores more carbon from fires than lower, warmer regions, new research shows.


  • Thirty Tree Species Dominate the World’s Most Tree-Diverse Savanna

    Thirty Tree Species Dominate the World’s Most Tree-Diverse Savanna

    A new study published in Communications Biology (Nature Portfolio) found a surprising pattern in the world’s largest and most floristically tree diverse tropical savanna, the Cerrado. The research shows that despite hosting approximately 1,605 tree species, a mere 30 species – less than 2% – account for nearly half of all trees. This phenomenon of…