Research

Current Research

1. Challenges for monitoring forest resilience

In this project, along with a collaborators, we explore the current challenges for monitoring forest resilience, integrating physiological, ecological and social dimensions.

2. Biogeography of trees’ storage strategies

This projects aims to identify the diversity and the distribution of Non-structural carbohydrates and lipids storage strategies across different ecosystem around the world, helping us to evaluate the evolution of species storage strategies and understand species global distribution.

3. Non-structural carbohydrates safety margins: a tool to evaluate tree health and vulnerability

This project develops a framework to estimate and interpret NSC safety margin in mature trees and its potential applications in characterising tree health and vulnerability, up scaling to species life history traits, and estimating potential changes in forest composition and functionality.

4. Integrative framework of safety margins to asses forest health and risk

We plan to integrate several risk measurements such as non-structural carbohydrates, hydraulic, mechanical and thermal safety margins into an interpretative framework to assess forests risk and functioning.

5. Termites at the edge

Termites play a fundamental role in the carbon cycle. This project investigates how forest fragmentation influences termite activity and their colonisation of living trees, with important implications for tree health and methane emissions.