Yadvinder Malhi

Great work. Nice to see the pictures. Can someone remind me of the names of the Belizean researchers? (I know Lewis...)

Here's a nice, very convenient and cheap method for getting a standardized index of decomposition across the GEM sites: http://www.decolab.org/tbi/

As a plus, it is already been performed at a wide range of contrasting sites worldwide.

Note they have almost NO sites in the tropics. A nice easy project for GEM??

GEM has a paper in Nature!! Led by Chris Doughty, we show how forests in the Amazon lowlands responded to the 2010 drought. This shows the power of the the GEM approach to providing mechanistic insights into how forests work. The paper can be downloaded here...
http://tinyurl.com/oznd7wy

We have just published in Ecosystems a description of the carbon cycle of the core 1 ha intensive plot in Wytham Woods.This is work emerging from the DPhil thesis of Katie Fenn. The work shows that the plot takes up 22 tonnes of carbon every year through photosynthesis, but less than 10% of this ends up as wood growth. Much more productivity ends up in the leaf canopy and even in fine roots. This is one of the few full descriptions anywhere of carbon cycling in mixed-age temperate broadleaf woodland (most work is on either plantations or coniferous forests), and... More

Revised versions of the RAINFOR Field Code Sheets for Trees and Lianas are available to download from the RAINFOR website in EN, ES, PT and FR.

http://www.rainfor.org/en/manuals

Please can you start using these updated versions when travelling to the field for tree and liana re-measurements? Many thanks.

Kind regards,

Joana Ricardo
Project Administrator (Part-time: Wed - Fri - 9am-5pm)
RAINFOR, AMAZONICA and TFORCES Research Projects

We have started our new traits campaign at the GEM plots in Ghana:
http://www.yadvindermalhi.org/blog/kwaeemma-a-plant-traits-campaign-in-ghana
Here's to Kwaeemma!

We have a new paper in Nature Communications, led by Fernando Espirito-Santo, that describes the full spectrum of natural disturbance regimes in the Amazon for the first time. How often does a sing large tree fall over, or a bunch of trees, compared to when a storm blow down knocks over a larger area of trees. Such questions are important if we are to understand what drives tree death in the tropical rainforest, and also affect how we interpret the apparent increase of biomass we see in the RAINFOR plot network. The paper combined analyses at multiple scales: Landsat satellite... More

Visit to the GEM plots in SAFE, Malaysia. See blog at:
http://www.yadvindermalhi.org/1/post/2014/01/field-visit-by-the-bali-consortium-to-sabah-malaysian-borneo.html?fb_action_ids=10203145526947882&fb_action_types=weeblyapp%3Ashare&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

TROPIMUNDO is the first International Master in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems (2 years, 120 ECTS) that allows students to delve into the interlinked ecosystems under threat by spending an entire semester in the field : tropical rainforests and woodlands, wetlands, both terrestrial and coastal such as mangrove forests, seagrass beds and coral reefs.
The European Commission provides a certain number of full Erasmus Mundus scholarships for EU and non-EU students.
Applications for 2014-2015 are now opened and the deadline is the 10th of December 2013.
Please do not hesitate to forward the information to your colleagues, students or any other... More

Post-Doctoral Researcher in Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology : São Paulo, Brazil
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/352710-post-doctoral-researcher-in-tropical-forest-plant-ecophysiology