A new study by Pontes-Lopes et al. 2021 examining the impacts of the record-breaking drought and fires caused by…
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In our recent work studying the impact of record heat and drought on intact African tropical rainforests there…
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Fire is an important cause of disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems and can has a major impact on biodiversity.…
A huge new study has unravelled what factors control tree mortality rates in Amazon forests and helps to…
This opportunity has closed. For current PhD and postdoctoral opportunities in the Feldpausch group, see Opportunities. We are…
A major study in forests across the tropics is the first global assessment of palm tree numbers to…
Innovation by ancient farmers to improve soil fertility continue to have an impact on the biodiversity of the…
Tropical forests face an uncertain future under climate change, but new research published in Science suggests they can…
Competition among trees is an important driver of community structure and dynamics in tropical forests. Neighboring trees may…
The ability of the world’s tropical forests to remove carbon from the atmosphere is decreasing, according to a…
There has been a large increase in deforestation and wildfire in Amazonia over recent years. Fire in tropical…
New research in Geography at the University of Exeter is developing a charcoal reflectance methodology into a novel…
Fire is an important disturbance factor on the land surface, and effects carbon, nitrogen and water cycles, and…
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This opportunity has closed. For current PhD and postdoctoral opportunities in the Feldpausch group, see Opportunities. We are…
Our recent research highlights the negative effects of fire on the forest carbon sink in seasonally flooded forests in…
Previous research (Feldpausch et al. 2007) by my group showed the variation in rates of carbon uptake by…
Charcoal-derived carbon makes up a tenth of the soil carbon under Amazon forests with no known fire history,…
Visitors to the Eden Project can now trek across an aerial rope bridge, shelter from tropical rain and…
A recent drought completely shut down the Amazon Basin’s carbon sink, by killing trees and slowing their growth,…
For the first time, an international research team, including Dr Ted Feldpausch, a tropical forest ecologist from the…
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