Category: Amazon Forest
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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 climate, heat stress and fire risk in Amazon forests, with fieldwork in Brazil optional.
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China Scholarship Council and University of Exeter PhD Scholarships 2027 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 2027/28 entry. Available PhD Projects The PhD projects focus on a range of themes related to fire, land-use change, tree mortality, carbon cycling, and forest…
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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 far faster than its averages, and that the fastest-changing region is the central-north Amazon, far from the arc of deforestation.
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Burned Amazonian forests stay altered for at least 40 years, new lidar study shows
New spaceborne-lidar work presented at ATBC 2026 shows Amazonian forests in Acre remain measurably shorter, simpler and lower in biomass for at least 40 years after wildfire, recovering to only about 90% of unburned forest.
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MSc completed: Lorena de Souza Fleury traces a 25-year legacy of soil fertilisation in Amazonian secondary forests
Lorena de Souza Fleury’s MSc at INPA finds that forest age, not fertiliser, drove carbon recovery in Amazonian secondary forests after 25 years, with soil holding most of the carbon.
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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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What controls forest carbon on the sandy soils of the southern Amazon?
Amazonian rainforests play an important global role in maintaining biodiversity, regulating climate, generating rainfall, and storing carbon. Yet, despite their importance, these forests continue to face multiple forms of degradation.
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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…
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Does fire in forests regrowing on old pastures reduce soil carbon? Fieldwork in central Amazonia
The Amazon rainforest, an important carbon sink, faces increasing threats from deforestation and wildfires. But what happens to the soil carbon after these disturbances? MSc student, Lorena Fleury, in the Tropical Forest Science Postgraduate Programme at the National Institute for Research in Amazonia (INPA), supervised by Prof. Ted Feldpausch, has been sampling soil in secondary…