bachelor's at Biociências e Biotecnologia from Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (1997), master's at Byophysics from Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro (2000), doctorate at Geosciences from Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (2004) and doctorate at Doutorado Sanduiche from University of Edinburgh (2003). He is currently senior lecturer at Universidade de Exeter. Has experience in Ecology, acting on the following subjects: mineralização, carbono, decomposiçao, corte seletivo and nitrogênio. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The FAPESP - Shell Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation aims to be a world-class Centre for advanced studies with a focus on innovation towards sustainability and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. The Centre complements Fapesp's experiences in supporting high-level scientific research and technology development towards these fields. It aims to establish a world-class Centre…
Latin American (LATAM) forests from Brazil, Peru, Argentina and Chile are global epicentres of biological and environmental diversity. LATAM forests are home of Earth's poorest and most vulnerable people and are highly threatened by local anthropogenic disturbance and global environmental change. ARBOLES aims to improve our understanding of LATAM forest response to anthropogenic disturban…
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The Brazilian Amazon has already lost about 20 percent of its forest cover due to the advance of deforestation. As a consequence, local climate changes are observed, such as an increase of up to 0.8ºC in temperature and a reduction of 20% in precipitation during the dry season. This PhD project aims to develop a protocol of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) for areas in proces…
Amazon forests play an important role in climate regulation through several mechanisms such as decreasing daytime land surface temperature, contributing to convective cloud and rainfall formation, and decreasing dry season severity and length. Extensive deforestation therefore can increase climate risk in Amazon croplands and even croplands in other regions whose rainfall partially depend…
Fires are a global phenomenon and a major source of emission of trace gases and aerosols into the atmosphere. Therefore, it is necessary to estimate such emissions accurately and assess fire emission mitigation opportunities. Among drivers that influence the accuracy of fire emissions estimate we have land use and land cover, since emission factors are land use and land cover based. Consi…
The Amazon Forest is an essential component of the global climate system. It consists in ca. 40% of tropical forests, store ca. 120 ± 30 Pg of carbon in biomass, and constantly exchange carbon with the atmosphere by productivity, mortality and decomposition, and also due to deforestation and fires. Our limited knowledge of tree mortality processes constrains our ability to accurately quan…
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Amazon forests play an important role as a source of moisture to rainfall formation across Brazil. With the extensive deforestation in the Amazon during the last decades, many croplands in Brazil whose rainfall partially depends on Amazon forests may be under increased climate risk, as the vast majority of Brazil's croplands are rainfed. Observational evidence for the effect of Amazon def…
Biomass burning is a major source of emission of trace gases and aerosols into the atmosphere. These emissions are often related to broad detrimental impacts including climate change and endangering human health. Therefore, it is necessary to quantify biomass burning emissions accurately for assessing their impact on the environment and human life. However, these estimates are often linke…
LiDAR remote sensing is laser scanning technology which is being extensively used to monitor vast and remote forest areas in recent years. The application, evaluation and improvement of already developed LiDAR processing techniques are thus important to investigate human and climate-induced forest degradation in the Amazon. In this context, the present BEPE project covers all LiDAR-relate…
The role of the Amazon forest as a carbon sink has been extensively studied. However, recent results show that this sink is declining possibly due to climate variability, driving an increase in tree mortality, with feedbacks between growth and death of trees. Even though forest inventory plots have been the main source of information to monitor and assess impacts of global changes on ecos…
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