Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/A/S/2002/00487
Brazilian rain forest carbon cycling during an El Ni?o.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor P Meir, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor YS Malhi, University of Oxford, Geography - SoGE
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor M Williams, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Grant held at:
- University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Natural Resource Management
- Global Change
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Environmental Physiology
- Land - Atmosphere Interactions
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Ecosystem Scale Processes
- Abstract:
- The responses by Amazon rain forest to El Ni?o events (reduced rainfall, increased temperature) can switch the region from a carbon sink to a source. However, we do not understand the mechanisms underlying these responses and this constrains modelling of Amazon forest-atmosphere interactions. There is an added need to advance this understanding given the predicted increased frequency of El Ni?o events during the 21st century, but measurements of carbon exchange by rain forest during an El Ni?o do not yet exist. Clear predictions for a 2002/3 El Ni?o have been made recently. We wish to make use of this event to make measurements of carbon exchange at multiple scales at an E. Amazonian site. We will use the new data in combination with a modelling framework to test hypotheses of the mechanistic basis of the responses by rain forest to El Ni?o.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/A/S/2002/00487
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Urgency
This grant award has a total value of £30,331
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs |
|---|---|
| £17,739 | £12,592 |
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