Documentary aired on Peruvian television
A 15-minute documentary about the project, including footage shot on field work, was shown on national television in Peru. You can now watch it here!
Researching ecosystem change in Amazonia and Africa
A 15-minute documentary about the project, including footage shot on field work, was shown on national television in Peru. You can now watch it here!
Tom will be studying the genesis of palm swamp/lake systems including Quistococha for his PhD.
Tim Jones presented a poster about our NERC project, while Tim Baker, Katy Roucoux and Geertje van der Heijden convened a session on “Understanding the impact of disturbance on plant communities” with invited guest speakers including Prof Hermann Behling (Göttingen) and Prof Frans Bongers (Wageningen).
A team led by Katy Roucoux took sets of cores from three sites: Quistococha, near Iquitos: a Mauritia flexuosa palm swamp encircling a shallow lake (cores were taken from the swamp peats and from the lake) Buena Vista: a tahuampa (seasonally-flooded forest) San Jorge: a forested raised mire As well as taking cores, the team … Read more