Ted Feldpausch Research Group

In category: Forest regrowth


Post-doc to model soil carbon and fire in tropical forests

We are recruiting for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to model soil carbon and fire in tropical forests. Summary of the Role We wish to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support the work of Profs Richard Betts, Ted Feldpausch, and Kees van Groenigen at the University of Exeter and in collaboration Dr Eleanor Burke and Dr […]


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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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Post-doc opportunity: Interaction between geospatial monitoring of environmental data and soil carbon.

There is a post-doctoral opportunity at INPE to study forest degradation, fire, and soil carbon using remote sensing.


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Ancient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistance

In our recent paper, ā€œAncient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistanceā€ 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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Fire-related forest properties observed using Landsat and radar data

Fire is an important cause of disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems and can has a major impact on biodiversity. We evaluated the effect of fire regime on species richness and tree basal area in southern Amazon forest using Landsat and PALSAR data.


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Special Issue: Transformation of Tropical Forests Through Fire

The fire regime of tropical forests is changing rapidly, with implications for forest cover, carbon storage, species composition, biodiversity, function, and climate. These changes are having a range of impacts over varying spatiotemporal scales and are explored in a journalĀ special issue on the Transformation of Tropical Forests through Fire.


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Scientists unravel how and why Amazon trees die

A huge new study has unravelled what factors control tree mortality rates in Amazon forests and helps to explain why tree mortality is increasing across the Amazon basin. The capacity of the Amazon forest to store carbon in a changing climate will ultimately be determined by how fast trees die. The new analysis found that the […]


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Innovation by ancient farmers adds to biodiversity of the Amazon

Innovation by ancient farmers to improve soil fertility continue to have an impact on the biodiversity of the Amazon, a major new study shows.


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Fire effects on understory forest regeneration in southern Amazonia

There has been a large increase in deforestation and wildfire in Amazonia over recent years. Fire in tropical forests increases tree mortality, degrades forest structure, and reduces carbon stocks (Figure 1). Remote sensing now permits a rapid and accurate assessment of the location and extent of fires. On the ground and in forests, however, there […]


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Using charcoal to improve the understanding of fire behaviour in different biomes

New research in Geography at the University of Exeter is developing a charcoal reflectance methodology into a novel metric with which to assess fire severity and the amount of energy that has been delivered across burned areas in the UK, USA and Brazilian Amazon.


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PhD in Geography (NERC GW4+ DTP): The ecology of lightning strikes: How many trees in tropical forests killed by lightning?

We are seeking qualified and motivated candidates to pursue a PhD studying how lighting affects tree mortality, carbon dynamics, and forest composition in tropical forests.


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Fire reverses carbon sink in seasonally flooded forests in southern Amazonia

Our recent research highlights the negative effects of fire on the forest carbon sink in seasonally flooded forests in southern Amazonia, an area rich in diversity at the forest-savanna transition, including permanent forest plots from the Parque Estadual Araguaia.


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Refinement of IPCC default rates of aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forest

Previous research (Feldpausch et al. 2007) by my group showed the variation in rates of carbon uptake by regrowing secondary forests. Our new research published this month refines IPCC default rates used to estimate aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forest. The results will improve estimates of forest carbon uptake for greenhouse gas accounting.


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