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Global investigations

We are always exploring new possibilities for research collaborations, and interested in supporting collaborators in developing their own research sites.

Possible new areas of research include India, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo

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- Field station

Photos and images

Here some photos of our campaign to establish permanent plots in Belize last month (May 2015).
Fernando Hancco and I shared the task of setting up intensive Carbon monitoring plots, installing ingrowth cores experiment for fine roots, litterfall traps, total and component soil CO2 efflux, stem respiration, coarse woody debris survey, and others, in accordance with the RAINFOR- GEM Field Manual V3.0.

Currently, the Belize team is still setting up four plots, two in Las Cuevas Forest Research- Chiquibul Forest and two in Hill Bank.

Our gratitude to Percival Cho, Lewis Usher, Shanelly Carrillo and Rudy Balan for their warm welcome, cordiality and motivation.

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Yadvinder Malhi

Almost 8 years ago

West African Forests, East African Forests, Asian Forests, Andes to Amazon transect, Lowland Amazon Forest, Southern Temperate Forests, Global investigations, European Forests Wytham

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... More
Beisit Luz Puma Vilca

Almost 8 years ago

Percival Cho, Belizean forests, Impacts of natural and antropogenic disturbances of Belizean forests carbon cycle.

Here some photos of our campaign to establish permanent plots in Belize last month (May 2015).
Fernando Hancco and I shared the task of setting up intensive Carbon monitoring plots,... More
Yadvinder Malhi

About 8 years ago

West African Forests, East African Forests, Asian Forests, Andes to Amazon transect, Lowland Amazon Forest, Southern Temperate Forests, Global investigations

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... More

Cécile Girardin

About 6 years ago

West African Forests, Terrestrial LiDAR, Southern Temperate Forests, Lowland Amazon Forest, Global investigations, European Forests Wytham, ECOFOR, East African Forests, Asian Forests, Andes to Amazon transect

Hi GEM team,

Here is a nice introduction on the work we are carrying out on El Niño by Laura Cole, a journalist from Geographical magazine: http://geographical.co.uk/places/forests/item/2149-research-blog-the-tropics-and-el-nino

Laura will be following our work on El Niño for a few months. If you have stories from your fieldwork, or findings that you would like Laura to showcase, don't hesitate to contact me.

Abrazos,
Cécile
Cécile Girardin

Over 7 years ago

West African Forests, Terrestrial LiDAR, Southern Temperate Forests, Lowland Amazon Forest, Global investigations, European Forests Wytham, ECOFOR, East African Forests, Asian Forests, Andes to Amazon transect

Here is the very cool 3D T-lidar scan of the canopy walkway in Wytham Woods, produced by Kim Calders of NPL/UCL:
https://youtu.be/RS6q3HMEJK8?vq=hd1080
Cécile Girardin

Almost 8 years ago

West African Forests, Terrestrial LiDAR, Southern Temperate Forests, Lowland Amazon Forest, Global investigations, European Forests Wytham, ECOFOR, East African Forests, Asian Forests, Andes to Amazon transect

Message from Erika Berenguer:

Our paper on the cost-effectiveness of field assessments of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests has just come out in Plos One:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0133139

This is a very novel approach and, as far as we know, the first of its kind.

Please disseminate it widely,
Erika

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Yadvinder Malhi

I am Professor of Ecosystem Science at Oxford University.
I lead the Ecosystems Programme at the Environmental Change Institute, with a focus of understanding the functioning of tropical forests and...

Esteban Alvarez

I´m a PhD student in the Department of Ecology at the Alcalá of Henares University, Spain. Currently working with forest diversity, biomass, and dynamics in complex environmental gradients in Colombia.

Beisit Luz Puma Vilca

I'm a Biologist , I followed my degree at the National University of San Antonio Abad del Cusco - Perú. I focus on plant physiology and cell metabolism.