Have the Lungs of our Planet been pushed to their limits?
OCTF seminar followed by drinks, all welcome, booking required
Intact tropical forests captured 15% of our carbon dioxide emissions over the early 2000s, storing it in wood and other forms of biomass. However, the capacity of Amazonian forests to capture excess carbon from the atmosphere is waning. In this seminar, Dr Wannes Hubau will show how the African tropical forest ‘carbon sink’ is evolving and whether we have pushed ‘The Lungs of our Planet’ to their very limits.
Dr Wannes Hubau (°1985) explores tropical African vegetation responses to climate change at several timescales, combining repeated forest inventory data from permanent plots (spanning decades), growth-ring research (centuries) and fossil charcoal analysis (millennia). He obtained his PhD at Ghent University in 2013 and conducted post-doctoral research at Leeds University, the Wood Biology Service of the AfricaMuseum and Ghent University. He led numerous field expeditions in four African countries (Liberia, Ghana, Cameroon, D.R.Congo).
Date:
28 February 2020, 16:15
Venue:
Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details:
Herbertson Room, ground floor
Speaker:
Dr Wannes Hubau (Ghent University)
Organising department:
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Organiser:
Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Organiser contact email address:
jane.applegarth@eci.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
Topics:
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.tropicalforests.ox.ac.uk/event/wannes-hubau/
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Jane Applegarth
