Dr Roel Brienen
Research overview
I am broadly interested in ecosystem functioning and interactions between ecology and the environment with a specific interest on the impact of climate change on tropical forests. My latest research focused on the long-term responses of tropical trees to climate and increasing atmospheric [CO2] levels. In these studies I used tree rings and stable isotopes (δ13C, δ18O), which allow the reconstruction of historical responses of trees to climate over long time intervals and may tell us what to expect for the future. This also provides clues concerning to the resilience of tropical forests to predicted climate change. I am further...
Contact details
Room 3.66a
School of Geography
University of Leeds
University Road
Leeds LS2 9JT UK
Email:
r.brienen
Telephone:
+44 (0) 113 34
33381
Office hours:
Latest publications
- Bowman DM; Brienen RJ; Gloor E; Phillips OL; Prior LD (2013) Detecting trends in tree growth: not so simple., Trends Plant Sci, 18, pp.11-17. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2012.08.005
- Gloor M; Gatti L; Brienen RJW; Feldpausch TR; Phillips O et al. (2012) The carbon balance of South America: status, decadal trends and main determinants, Biogeosciences Discussions, 9, pp.627-671. doi: 10.5194/bgd-9-627-2012
- Brienen RJW; Gloor E; Zuidema PA (2012) Detecting evidence for CO2 fertilization from tree ring studies: The potential role of sampling biases, Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change, . doi: 10.1029/2011GB004143
- Zuidema PA; Brienen RJW; Schöngart J (2012) Tropical forest warming: looking backwards for more insights, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 27, pp.193-194. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.12.007
- Brienen RJW; Helle G; Pons TL; Guyot JL; Gloor M (2012) Oxygen isotopes in tree rings are a good proxy for Amazon precipitation and El Niño-Southern Oscillation variability, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: : original research in systematics, evolution and ecology, . doi: 10.1073/pnas.1205977109
Current projects
- NERC Fellowship “Climate change and the Amazon: assessing the impact of climate on tree growth using tree ring widths and isotopes
Research affiliations
- Ecology and Global Change
- RAINFOR
