Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

• Abstract

  Ocean circulation is driven by water masses with different densities. Much of this is generated at the ocean-continent boundary, where near landlocked seas have a restricted connection with the global ocean, allowing them to evolve a different temperature or salinity. These marginal basins often form when continental plates coalesce - the Mediterranean today is a good example of this - or…

  NERC-FAPESP: The Marine Gateway Project: quantifying the causes and climatic consequences of the opening of the South Atlantic and the formation of its salt giant, AP.R

• Abstract

  Fires are increasing in Amazonia, transforming C storage. The evaluation of fire effects has traditionally focussed on aboveground C. However, soil organic carbon (SOC) can store half of total tropical forest C 19 and the impact of fire on existing SOC and the fate of new charcoal (pyrogenic C; PyC) is unknown. SOC loss, transformation and gain may have important implications for the C ba…

  Amazon PyroCarbon: quantifying soil carbon responses to fire, AP.TEM

• Abstract

  Social insects exemplify a major transition in evolution and show how cooperative organisms can reach higher levels of social organization. We want to gain a deeper understanding of the molecular regulation that drives the behavioural transitions in wasps. This project will integrate proximate mechanisms to the evolution of wasp sociality, by studying the ancestral origins of pre-social b…

  Secrets to a successful hunt: integrating genomes, chemistry and behaviour in neotropical solitary wasps, AP.R

(Only some records are available in English at this moment)

• Abstract

  In the Amazon, land use change impacts extend beyond converted agricultural landscapes. Human disruption severely affects the regional water cycle, worsening climate extremes like prolonged droughts. Evident in the deforestation arc (Cerrado-Amazon transition) amidst agricultural frontier expansion, this process is degrading nearby primary forests, heightening forest flammability, and inc…

  Quantifying Soil Organic Carbon Responses to Fire at the Landscape Scale in the Amazonia, BP.PD

• Abstract

  To create the geo-spatial database these project will first compile the data on SOC and its fractions produced by the project and from the literature review. As climatic, topographic, fire regime, biomass, land cover and soil characteristics vary across Amazonian regions and this variation can be reflected in the region's SOC patterns, the project will additionally compile continuous spat…

  Interaction between geospatial monitoring of environmental data and soil carbon from fire, BP.PD
• Training and preparing samples for isotopic analysis and measuring GEE in gas chromatographic., BP.TT