Author: Ted Feldpausch
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Tropical forests in the Americas are struggling to keep pace with climate change
Long-term forest monitoring shows that tropical forests in the Americas are shifting in composition in response to climate change, but too slowly to keep pace with ongoing warming and drying.
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Extreme El Niño weather saw South America’s forest carbon sink switch off
A major study in Science shows that the 2015–16 El Niño switched South America’s tropical forests from a carbon sink to a source — with implications for fire risk and carbon accounting.
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High-elevation tropical forest soils in Colombian Andes are rich in carbon from past fires
New research reveals that high-elevation tropical forest soils in the Colombian Andes store large stocks of pyrogenic and organic carbon, with clay content and fire history as key controls.
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Amazon Soil Carbon — The Missing Credit
Amazon Soil Carbon: Policy Brief Summary The conversion of forest to agriculture in the Amazon triggers a “deforestation multiplier”: the ecosystem loses carbon equivalent to about 115% (1.15×) of the original forest’s aboveground biomass. Current carbon-credit standards such as Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) focus on standing timber, yet new evidence highlights the significant, unprotected…
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‘Unprecedented’ wildfires in tropical peatlands during 20th century
A new study reveals an unprecedented increase in wildfires in tropical peatlands during the 20th century. Peatlands store vast quantities of carbon below the Earth’s surface – more than all the world’s forest biomass combined – but when they catch fire large amounts of the stored carbon is released into the atmosphere. Wildfires in tropical regions have been on the rise in recent decades, but the history and characteristics of wildfires in tropical peatlands remain largely unknown. …
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From Sample to Data: The Journey Inside the Laboratory
After thousands of kilometres of fieldwork across the Amazon, around two thousand soil samples have passed through the CENA laboratory in Piracicaba. This is the story of how they are dried, ground, sieved, weighed, and analysed to reveal how wildfires affect Amazonian soils.
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On the Road: Thousands of Kilometres in Service of Amazon Wildfire Science
The Amazon PyroCarbon project has covered thousands of kilometres across Mato Grosso, Rondônia, Amazonas, Acre, and Pará over the past three years. This is the story of the road trips, the Guerreira, and the soil that comes home with the team.
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Post-doc opportunity with the Amazon PyroCarbon Project
Pyrogenic Carbon in the Amazon: quantifying soil carbon responses to the effect of fire. 2021/00976-4 – UKRI – NERC – Research Project – Thematic Plinio Barbosa de Camargo (CENA/USP) – Ted R. Feldpausch Institution: Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture USP Supervisor name: Plínio Camargo / Ted Feldpausch Lab. Isotopic Ecology. USP SCENE Recipient:…
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PhD Scholarship: Soil carbon dynamics following Amazon forest wildfires (2026 entry)
A fully-funded PhD scholarship is available at the University of Exeter: Soil carbon dynamics following Amazon forest wildfires About the award Supervisors Lead Supervisor Dr Kees Jan Van Groenigen, Department of Geography, University of Exeter Additional Supervisors Professor Ted Feldpausch, Department of Geography, University of Exeter Eleanor Burke, Met Office Professor Plinio Camargo, University of…
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PhD Scholarship: Integrating sensing, modelling and data analytics to understand forest microclimate dynamics under fire, degradation and climate change in Amazonia
A fully-funded PhD scholarship is available at the University of Exeter: Integrating sensing, modelling and data analytics to understand forest microclimate dynamics under fire, degradation and climate change in Amazonia Supervision Lead Supervisor: Professor Ted Feldpausch Co-Supervisors: Ilya Maclean; I.M.D.Maclean@exeter.ac.uk Project This project combines environmental sensing, computational modelling anddata analytics to understand how climate change,…