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Protecting the vulnerable Congo Basin
A project to protect the world’s second-largest area of tropical rainforest has received £9.1m from the government.
Professors Oliver Phillips and Guy Ziv launch world-first forest carbon mapping initiative
They are collaborators on GEO-TREES, a global, £13m funded project to collect ground data and validate carbon storage maps of the world’s forests.
Common tree species dominate tropical forests
Scientists have found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across the world’s tropical forests.
Amazon - challenges of science in the rainforest
As an ecologist, Dr Julia Tavares often has to consider how to collect data from remote locations.
Amazon - how will it cope with drought?
A collaboration involving 80 scientists has identified the regions of the Amazon rainforest where trees are most likely to face the greatest risk from drier conditions brought about by climate change.