Now that humanity has cleared or damaged at least three-quarters of the world’s primary forests, the regrowth of tropical forests play a key role in… Read More »The regrowth of tropical forests: remote sensing functional traits of the forest succession
We mostly enjoy the coast by visiting the beach, which, apart from the waves and tides, can seem quite static. Viewed from the air, however,… Read More »The dynamics of “ness” sediment spits
Tropical forests are a major global carbon sink and account for a third of the carbon fixed globally by photosynthesis. Recent research in South America… Read More »Spatial and temporal patterns of liana success in Malaysia
Global circulation models predict that severe and widespread drought will occur throughout Europe. Soil is the largest carbon pool of the terrestrial biosphere and is… Read More »Role of dark septate endophytes and ericoid mycorrhiza in ecosystem resilience to chronic drought
Global warming poses grave risks for society and ecosystems. To date, mitigation efforts have been insufficient to prevent greenhouse gas emissions from continuing to rise.… Read More »Risks to global water resources from geoengineering the climate with solar radiation management
Why is this research exciting? The relationship between plants and mycorrhizal fungi is central to the maintenance of plant growth and ecosystem productivity worldwide. Mycorrhizal… Read More »Quantifying the function of mycorrhizal associations under altered resource availability
This project brings together the paleoclimate data and modelling communities to test ways of comparing data on past climate change with modelled scenarios of that… Read More »Proxy-data climate-model comparisons using lake-isotope records of the last 2000 years
Approximately 20% of people display allergic reactions to combinations of tree and grass pollen causing symptoms ranging from discomfort (e.g. hay fever) to respiratory complications… Read More »Pollen forecast 2020: using DNA metabarcoding to assess aerial pollen mixtures and identify linkages to hay fever
Rhizosphere microbes are key players in the carbon transformations underlying the generation and sustenance of soil organic matter. Recent evidence suggests that the production of… Read More »Novel imaging approaches to track rhizosphere carbon flow
This project aims to develop new geophysical data processing techniques for imaging groundwater changes within unstable slopes (e.g. natural landslides and vulnerable earthworks). Conventional monitoring… Read More »New computational inversion methods for geoelectrical imaging of groundwater changes in unstable slopes