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Tagged: Africa


Lightning fieldwork in Ghana: Gavyn Mewett surveys struck trees in Bobiri and Ankasa

PhD student Gavyn Mewett has returned from a month of fieldwork in Ghana, where he surveyed lightning-struck trees across Bobiri Forest Reserve and Ankasa Game Reserve as part of the Africa Lightning Project (PI: Prof. Tim Hill; co-I: Prof. Ted Feldpausch, University of Exeter).


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African rainforests remained a carbon sink during record heat and drought

In our recent work studying the impact of record heat and drought on intact African tropical rainforests there was surprising resilience to the extreme conditions during the last major 2015/2016 El Niño event. The international study, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that intact rainforests across tropical Africa continued to remove […]


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