Category: Amazon Forest
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Extreme El Niño weather saw South America’s forest carbon sink switch off
Tropical forests in South America lose their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere when conditions become exceptionally hot and dry, according to new research. For a long time, tropical forests have acted as a carbon sink, taking more carbon out of the air than they release into it, a process that has moderated the impact…
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Drought will reduce the rainforest’s 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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Ancient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistance
In our recent paper, “Ancient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistance” 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.