Amazon PyroCarbon
Quantifying pyrogenic carbon stocks, soil carbon responses to fire, and climate-change feedbacks in Amazonian forests
Fire is reshaping Amazonia, and the pyrogenic carbon accumulating in burned soils may be the most underestimated player in the global carbon cycle.
Amazon PyroCarbon is a NERC-FAPESP project delivering the first pan-Amazonian quantification of how fire alters soil organic carbon stocks, stability, and the accumulation of pyrogenic carbon (charcoal and black carbon) in forest soils. Combining systematic field campaigns, laboratory analyses, and ecosystem modelling across fire gradients in Amazonian forests, we investigate what Amazon burning means for the global carbon cycle, now and under future climate warming and drought.
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4
Regional sites across
the Arc of Deforestation
12
Partner institutions
26
Researchers from
four countries
4
Years of field
measurements
As fire spreads across Amazonia, the carbon beneath the ashes may determine the region’s climate future.
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PhD studentship: can low-cost sensors and models show which Amazon forests are most at risk of burning?
A PhD at the University of Exeter combining environmental sensing, microclimate modelling and machine learning to predict fine-scale…
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China Scholarship Council and University of Exeter PhD Scholarships 2027 entry
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The Amazon’s hottest days are warming more than twice as fast as its average
A new study in Communications Earth & Environment, co-authored at Exeter, shows that Amazonia’s climate extremes are changing…
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