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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Peter is an Assistant Professor at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), where he leads the dendroecology laboratory. He is one of the coordinators of the Tropical Tree-Ring Network (tropicaltreeringnetwork.org). He holds a BSc in Biology and an MSc in Environmental Biology from Utrecht University and earned his PhD in Forest Ecology and Management from Wageningen University, studying the impact of climate change on pantropical tree growth rates.Peter conducted a 6-month postdoc at Wageningen University, applying demographic models to assess the sustainability of frankincense production, followed by a two-year Marie Curie postdoc at the University of Santiago de Compostela. There, he used tree rings, quantitative wood anatomy, dendrochemistry, and isotopic analyses to trace the origins of wood used in 16th- and 17th-century Iberian shipbuilding. His ongoing research focuses on the ecology of tropical tree species, examining how climatic variability and climate change influence their growth, physiology, and anatomy, as well as the sustainable use of forest resources. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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One of the major challenges in tropical forest ecology and climate change studies is predicting responses of tropical ecosystems to the synergistic effects of different global environmental changes: temperature, atmospheric CO2 levels, nutrient and water availability. The research proposed here will apply state-of-the-art techniques in the field of tropical forest ecology: hydraulic-trait…
Many trees produce annual rings that record the environmental conditions the plant experienced during the growth season. By measuring tree-ring width it is possible to unravel these environmental conditions recorded in tree-rings. Several factors may limit tree growth, and in tropical forests, water is often the limiting factor for growth. The relations between climatic variables and tree…
Many trees produce annual rings that record the environmental conditions the plant experienced during the growth season. By measuring tree-ring width it is possible to unravel these environmental conditions recorded in tree-rings. Several factors may limit tree growth, in the tropical forests water is often the limiting factor for growth. The relations between climatic variables and tree-…
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In the Amazon, approximately 227 species of trees are considered hyper-dominant, which have a significant influence on biomass and the carbon cycle. This hyper-dominance is the result of life history and different ecological strategies, which can vary within species and are modulated by the effect of environmental stresses, with water stress being a major modulator. Functional traits are …
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