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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: How and why the growth and biomass varies across the tr
 opics - Yadvinder Malhi\, Professor of Ecosystem Science\, University of O
 xford
DTSTART:20180222T130000Z
DTEND:20180222T140000Z
UID:TALK82541@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:david baulcombe
DESCRIPTION:What determines the productivity of tropical forests\, and how
  it varies in space and time?\n\nWe report on new findings emerging from a
  global network off intensive monitoring plots spanning Amazonia\, Africa 
 and Borneo\, where we measured all the major components of productivity an
 d respiration. Our results show the woody growth rates of these forests is
  determined much more by how carbon is allocated between leaves\, wood and
  fine roots\, and much less by total photosynthesis. The biomass of old-gr
 owth forests is shaped more spatial variation in the rate trees die rather
  than the rate trees growth. I explore what environmental factors can expl
 ain spatial variation in these patterns.
LOCATION:Department of Plant Sciences\, Large Lecture Theatre
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