Mathew Williams

Chair of Global Change Ecology & Head of the Global Change Research Institute at the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh
 https://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/mwilliam

Locating priority areas for forest restoration, and predicting and tracking restoration progress

 

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·         Recording, 38 min.

 

Mathew Williams is Chair of Global Change Ecology and Head of the Global Change Research Institute at the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on primary production and carbon cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, and how these respond to changing climate and disturbance. To tackle these challenges he links process modelling with earth observation and field experiments to diagnose ecosystem dynamics.

All Sessions by Mathew Williams

  • Natural Sciences Focus

    6 June 2018 08:15 - 16:30

  • 14:30  - 15:15
    We link maps of climate, land use history and current biomass to reconstruct past biomass change, and hence the current deficit in biomass across the tropics. This calculation allows us to map the potential for forest biomass accumulation, which we link to models of forest growth to predict timescales for restoration.
    Natural Sciences




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