School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

My research centres on the ecology, conservation and sustainable development of tropical forests, especially Amazonia. These forests are undergoing unprecedented change, which could have profound impacts on biodiversity and global climate as well as on the people of the tropics themselves.

CURRENT PROJECTS

• RAINFOR: Red Amazonica de Inventarios Forestales
  An international network established to monitor the biomass and dynamics of Amazonian forests

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

• Ecology and Global Change
• Earth and Biosphere Institute
• TROBIT
• RAINFOR

PUBLICATIONS

• Anderson, L.O., Y. Malhi, R. J. Ladle, L. E. O. C. Aragão, Y. Shimabukuro, O. L. Phillips, T. Baker, A. C. L. Costa, J. S. Espejo, N. Higuchi, W. F. Laurance, G. López-Gonzalez, A. Monteagudo, P. Núñez-Vargas, J. Peacock, C. A. Quesada, S. Almeida, and R. Vásquez.  2009.  Influence of landscape heterogeneity on spatial patterns of wood productivity, wood specific density and above ground biomass in Amazonia. Biogeosciences Discussions 6: 2039-2083.

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