Author: Ted Feldpausch
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People and the Amazon: new display by the Univ of Exeter and Eden Project
Prof Ted Feldpausch and Prof Jose Iriarte developed a new display with the Eden Project to communicate to the public research findings about historical land-use and fire use by pre-Columbian people.
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Drought will reduce the rainforestâs ability to remove carbon from the environment
In a major collaboration involving 80 scientists from Europe and South America, our research identified the regions of the Amazon rainforest where trees are most likely to face the greatest risk from drier conditions brought about by climate change. Based on the analysis, our research predicts trees in the western and southern Amazon face the…
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Workshop at UFAC-Brazil teaches student teachers in training about wildfire in the Amazon
A project in partnership between the University of Exeter and UFAC-Brazil held the 2nd Workshop: Exchange of Knowledge and Teaching on Burning in the Amazon, taught by biologist Yara AraĂșjo Pereira de Paula, Master in Ecology from UFAC. The event had students as its target audience and ran from Monday, 20th to Saturday, the 25th,…
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Workshop Exchange of Knowledge and Teaching on Burning in the Amazon, Confresa, MT-Brazil (video)
The Municipal Secretary of Education of Confresa offered the event âI Workshop Exchange of Knowledge and Teaching on Burning in the Amazonâ, which took place on February 22, 23 and 24, 2023, in the face-to-face format at the municipality of Confresa, MT. Funded by the University of Exeter (UK) and the Natural Environmental Research Council,…
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Ancient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistance
In our recent paper, âAncient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistanceâ published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, we studied if ancient fires can alter the response of Amazonian forests to drought events.
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Tropical Forest Research in Geography at the University of Exeter (video)
Researchers at the University of Exeter describe some of the globally important research that they lead on tropical forests and peatlands.
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Fully funded PhD opportunity: Soil carbon dynamics following Amazon Forest fires: quantifying the role of fire severity and charcoal, NERC GW4+ DTP PhD
This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding from the NERC Great Western Four+ Doctoral Training Partnership (GW4+ DTP). The GW4+ DTP consists of the Great Western Four alliance of the University of Bath, University of Bristol, Cardiff University and the University of Exeter plus five Research Organisation partners: British…
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Amazon PyroCarbon Project Officially Launched!
We are pleased to announce the start of the Amazon PyroCarbon project. This major international collaboration, involving researchers from the UK, Brazil, and Australia, will seek to answer one of the biggest open questions in climate science: what happens to the vast stores of carbon in Amazonian soils in response to fire? Our team will…