Prof Oliver Phillips Contact details
School of Geography
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT UK
Email:
o.phillips
Telephone:
+44 (0) 113 34
36832
Student hours:
Tuesday
Research overview
My long-term research goal is to understand the dynamics of carbon and biodiversity across the world’s tropical forests, how these change with our changing climate, and how they may feedback on the whole planet.
The scale of the endeavour is large, requiring global team-work and a multidisciplinary approach. I personally lead a team of more than 100 researchers in Leeds, across South America, and elsewhere, to understand the behaviour of Amazonian forests in the changing earth system.
Selected publications
- Esquivel-Muelbert A; Baker TR; Dexter KG; Lewis SL; ter Steege H et al. (2017) Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics, Ecography, 40, pp.618-629. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01904
- Sullivan MJP; Talbot J; Lewis SL; Phillips OL; Qie L et al. (2017) Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome, Scientific Reports, 7, . doi: 10.1038/srep39102
- Phillips OL; Brienen RJW; Gloor E; Baker TR; Lloyd J et al. (2017) Carbon uptake by mature Amazon forests has mitigated Amazon nations' carbon emissions, Carbon Balance and Management, 12, . doi: 10.1186/s13021-016-0069-2
- Levis C; Costa FRC; Bongers F; Pena-Claros M; Phillips OL et al. (2017) Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition, Science, 355, pp.925-931. doi: 10.1126/science.aal0157
- Feldpausch TR; Phillips OL; Brienen RJW; Gloor E; Lloyd J et al. (2016) Amazon forest response to repeated droughts, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 30, pp.964-982. doi: 10.1002/2015GB005133
Additional recent publications
- Rowland L; Zaragoza-Castells J; Bloomfield KJ; Turnbull MH; Phillips OL et al. (2017) Scaling leaf respiration with nitrogen and phosphorus in tropical forests across two continents, New Phytologist, 214, pp.1019-1032. doi: 10.1111/nph.13992
- Bahar NHA; Ishida FY; Weerasinghe LK; Guerrieri R; Phillips OL et al. (2017) Leaf-level photosynthetic capacity in lowland Amazonian and high-elevation Andean tropical moist forests of Peru, New Phytologist, 214, pp.1002-1018. doi: 10.1111/nph.14079
- Malhi Y; Girardin CAJ; Goldsmith GR; Doughty CE; Phillips OL et al. (2017) The variation of productivity and its allocation along a tropical elevation gradient: a whole carbon budget perspective, New Phytologist, 214, pp.1019-1032. doi: 10.1111/nph.14189
Current projects
Research affiliations
- Ecology and Global Change
- RAINFOR
- TROBIT
