Category: News
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Global land cover mapping: experiences and perspectives
in NewsPresentation by Professor Peng Gong from Tsinghua University at 12.00 Thursday 5th December, Tom Ap Rees Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences Abstract In this presentation, I will report our global land cover mapping efforts beginning in 2010. Initially, a classification system was developed for the purpose of climate modeling needs. A sampling software was…
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Drone images show Greenland Ice Sheet becoming more unstable as it cracks
in NewsThis study led by Tom Chudley was published on PNAS (the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) and was reported by University of Cambridge press release and Washington Post. Tom and co-authors presented combined UAV and in situ records of a rapidly draining supraglacial lake in a fast-flowing sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet.…
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The giant trees of the Amazon basin
in NewsThe tallest trees currently found on Earth have reached their great heights by persisting and growing for centuries in the face of multiple hazards (Lindenmayer and Laurance 2016). The tropical rainforests of South America are not traditionally thought to harbor trees as tall as those on other continents. However, we present new evidence of giant trees…
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Reconciling the contribution of environmental and stochastic structuring of tropical forest diversity through the lens of imaging spectroscopy
in NewsBoth niche and stochastic dispersal processes structure the extraordinary diversity of tropical plants, but determining their relative contributions has proven challenging. We address this question using airborne imaging spectroscopy to estimate canopy β‐diversity for an extensive region of a Bornean rainforest and challenge these data with models incorporating niches and dispersal. We show that remotely…
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