{"id":102,"date":"2019-08-03T05:38:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T04:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/tedfeldpausch\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T13:04:34","slug":"feldpausch-research-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/feldpausch-research-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meet the Feldpausch Research Group. Our research group investigates the dynamics of forests and savannas and their response to environmental changes like drought, fire, land-use, and climate change. We work primarily in the Amazon and African tropics, combining extensive fieldwork with remote sensing and ecosystem modelling. Below are our current researchers, alumni, and research talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current members<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Postdoctoral researchers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/Lidiany-e1576504141467-2-760x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-687\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;width:177px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/Lidiany-e1576504141467-2-760x1024.png 760w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/Lidiany-e1576504141467-2-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/Lidiany-e1576504141467-2-768x1035.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/Lidiany-e1576504141467-2.png 898w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr Lidiany Carvalho \u2013 Soil fertility and pyrogenic carbon in Amazonian soils<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2793\" style=\"width:231px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image-1.png 200w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Wanderlei Bieluczyk &#8211; Soil carbon isotopes and pyrogenic carbon in Amazonia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2799\" style=\"width:233px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image-2.png 400w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image-2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Jo\u00e3o Pompeu &#8211; Soil pyrogenic carbon, forest structure and dynamics in Amazonia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2777\" style=\"width:215px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image.png 180w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Dr Oscar Kennedy-Blundell &#8211; Modelling soil carbon and black carbon in Amazonia using JULES<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3037\" style=\"width:225px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/image.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/image-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Facundo Alvarez &#8211; Cerrado hyperdominant trees and drivers of forest composition in Amazonia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Postgraduate students<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/Jess_Thomas-e1631260018953-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1238\" style=\"width:192px;height:256px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/Jess_Thomas-e1631260018953-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/Jess_Thomas-e1631260018953-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/Jess_Thomas-e1631260018953.jpg 841w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jess Thomas (PhD, Univ Exeter &#8211; A.G. Leventis Foundation 2021-2025) &#8211; Ecological and environmental drivers of carbon storage and resilience in degraded areas of the Amazon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/IMG_7156-e1629392931834-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1205\" style=\"width:192px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/IMG_7156-e1629392931834-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/IMG_7156-e1629392931834-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/IMG_7156-e1629392931834.jpg 982w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Emily Doyle (PhD, Univ Exeter &#8211; A. G. Leventis Foundation 2021-2025) &#8211; Using novel satellite data to assess degradation and resilience of Amazon carbon stocks<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"178\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2019\/08\/Foto-e1632739476994.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1256\" style=\"width:192px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Maurivan Barros Pereira (PhD, UNEMAT, Brazil 2021-25) &#8211; Post-fire changes in soil carbon in tropical forests<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-4 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image-3.png 200w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/10\/image-3-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Gavyn Mewett (PhD, Univ Exeter) &#8211; Effect of lightning on tree mortality in Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gabriel Nunes (MSc, UNEMAT) &#8211; Carbon and forest composition dynamics following wildfire in southern Amazonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/Silvana-Nascimento-1024x945.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2961\" style=\"width:211px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/Silvana-Nascimento-1024x945.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/Silvana-Nascimento-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/Silvana-Nascimento-768x709.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/Silvana-Nascimento-1536x1418.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/Silvana-Nascimento.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Silvana Nascimento (PhD, UFAC) &#8211; Soil respiration in burned and intact forests in southwestern Amazonia<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"1012\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/Amauri-Barradas-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2971\" style=\"width:206px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/Amauri-Barradas-1.png 840w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/Amauri-Barradas-1-249x300.png 249w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/11\/Amauri-Barradas-1-768x925.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Amauri de Castro Barradas (PhD, UNEMAT-Brazil) &#8211;&nbsp;Forest&nbsp;composition, structure, and carbon cycling in&nbsp;forests in northern Mato Grosso, Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/ted-feldpausch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/257\/2025\/03\/Lorena_Manaus_Amazon-PyroCarbon-Project2-1-1536x2048.jpeg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:200px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lorena de Souza Fleury (MSc, INPA) &#8211; Secondary forest regrowth and soil carbon on abandoned pastures in central Amazonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research talks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming talks:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jess<\/strong> <strong>Thomas<\/strong>: Microclimate and forest structure  in southern Amazonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Silvana Nasimento:<\/strong>&nbsp;Soil respiration and microclimate in intact and degraded forests in Acre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maurivan<\/strong> <strong>Barros Pereira<\/strong>: Soil respiration and microclimate in intact and degraded forests in Mato Grosso<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gabriel Nunes<\/strong>: Forest carbon dynamics following wildfire and deforestation in southern Amazonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Previous talks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gavyn Mewett<\/strong>: Tree mortality from lightning in Ghana<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Jo\u00e3o Pompeu<\/strong><\/strong>: Amazon Basin-wide variation in soil PyC and forest structure based on remote sensing analysis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wanderlei Bieluczyk<\/strong>:&nbsp;What do soil carbon and pyrogenic carbon isotopes reveal about intact&nbsp;forests in Amazonia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lidiany<\/strong> <strong>Carvalho<\/strong>:&nbsp;Root and Soil Pyrogenic Carbon relationships for intact&nbsp;forests in central Amazonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jess<\/strong> <strong>Thomas<\/strong>: Estimating soil carbon from remote sensing and ground data for Rio Cautario, Rondonia, Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oscar Kennedy-Blundell<\/strong>: Intro to the JULES Land Surface Model and Soil Carbon Models and integrating pyrogenic carbon into JULES to evaluate PyC affects on carbon emissions in Amazonia with climate warming<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jo\u00e3o Pompeu<\/strong>:&nbsp;Google Earth Engine and Colab for analyses<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gavyn Mewett:&nbsp;<\/strong>Lightning&nbsp;research, including plans for a new experiment in the Univ Cardiff Lightning Laboratory assess lightning-induced changes in soil<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facundo Alvarez<\/strong>: Hyperdominance in the Cerrado tree flora<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amauri de Castro Barradas:\u00a0<\/strong>Forest\u00a0composition, structure, and carbon cycling in\u00a0forests in northern Mato Grosso, Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Past Post-doctoral Researchers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Annia Susin Strehe \u2013 Effect of lightning on tropical forest composition and carbon dynamics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Julieth Serrano &#8211; Forest diversity and carbon along an altitudinal gradient in Colombian montane forests<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Grace Jopaul Loubota &#8211; Drivers of variation in pantropical crown allometry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr James Hill \u2013 Using charcoal reflectance to understand post-fire changes in tropical forests<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Alastair Crawford &#8211; Using charcoal reflectance to evaluate past fires in Amazonia <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Nina Koele &#8211; Soil pyrogenic carbon stocks in Amazonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Kl\u00e9cia Gili Massi &#8211; Tree traits and ancient wildfire in Amazonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Past postgraduate students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yuwan Wang (PhD, Univ Exeter-QUEX Scholarship 2020-23) &#8211; Peat and fire in tropical forests<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luciana Pereira (PhD, Univ Exeter International Excellence Scholarship 2018-22) &#8211; Potential of ALOS-PALSAR to estimate and map vegetation structural and carbon storage in Amazon forests<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura Vedovato (PhD, Univ Exeter, CAPES-Brazil) &#8211; From the Past to the Present: Impacts of fire on Amazonian forests<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucas Heber Mariano do Santos (MSC, UNEMAT) &#8211; Understory regeneration following experimental forest fire in southern Amazonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luiz Paulo da Silva (MSc, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil 2021-2023) &#8211; Analysis of tropical forest paleo-fires using charcoal data<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grace Jopaul Loubota (Exeter &#8211; visiting PhD student from Universit\u00e9 de Li\u00e8ge, 2017) &#8211; Tree allometry and biomass in central Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stacey New (PhD, Univ Exeter NERC DTP, SilvaCarbon 2015-19) &#8211; Charcoal reflectance: a quantitative approach to understanding the impact of fire on an ecosystem. Currently a research scientist at the UK Met Office<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chantelle Burton (PhD, University of Exeter, Met Office-UK 2015-19) &#8211; Modelling fire interactions with tropical forest, climate, and land-use. Currently a research scientist at the UK Met Office<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Larissa Barbosa (MSc, Univ Exeter-INPA 2017-19) &#8211; Pyrogenic carbon and belowground biomass in central Amazonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marcelle Abdiel de Souza (MSc, Univ Exeter-INPA 2017-19) &#8211; Response of secondary forests in central Amazonia to relaxed nutrient constraints. Currently a PhD student at INPA-Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edmar Oliveira (PhD, UNEMAT-Brazil) &#8211; Pyrogenic carbon, soil, and forest composition and structure in southern Amazonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Edwards (MSc, Univ of Exeter, 2022-2023) &#8211; Methods to reduce C emissions from above ground biomass, upon removal and storage from gold mining, Ecuadorian Amazon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nayane Prestes (MSc, UNEMAT-Brazil) &#8211; Understory regrowth following wildfire in southern Amazonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demetrius Martins (MSc, INPA-Brazil, 2012) &#8211; Environmental and edaphic drivers of variation in coarse woody debris stocks and wood density in central Amazonia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erick M. Oblitas Mendoza (PhD, INPA-CAPES studentship, Brazil 2012-16) &#8211; Temporal and spatial variation in fine root production in central Amazonian forests<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Come work with us!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact Prof Feldpausch to collaborate or discuss potential post-graduate studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the Feldpausch Research Group. Our research group investigates the dynamics of forests and savannas and their response to environmental changes like drought, fire, land-use, and climate change. We work primarily in the Amazon and African tropics, combining extensive fieldwork with remote sensing and ecosystem modelling. Below are our current researchers, alumni, and research talks. 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