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.
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 […]
It is with great sadness that we share the loss of Luciana Pereira, a talented Geography PhD student at the University of Exeter, whose research focused on the effects of fire on Amazonian forests. Luciana, who was supervised by Prof. Ted Feldpausch, Dr Luiz Aragão and Dr Sidnei Sant’Anna, passed away following her struggle with […]
Congratulations to all of the students graduating from the University of Exeter this week. Those completing included a PhD student I supervised, Dr Laura Vedovato, with her PhD on “From Past to Present: Impacts of Fire on Amazonian Forests” based on her fieldwork in Amazonia, soil analyses, and remote sensing analyses. Well done and good […]