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Travels in ecosystem science

Some observations and musings from the field and the office.
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Kwaeemma Ghana plant traits campaign at Ankasa rainforest

24/2/2015

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I have just returned from an excellent week with our ongoing plant traits campaign in Ghana, Kwaeemma ("Children of the Forest"). Since October, this team of 25 students and national service volunteers has been collecting data on plant traits and function along a gradient ranging from forest-savanna transition at Kogyae, through semi-deciduous forest at Bobiri, and ending up in evergreen wet rainforest at Ankasa in southwest Ghana. I joined the team in Ankasa. This lush green site is one of the hotspots of plant diversity in West Africa, possibly a Pleistocene refuge that stayed forest when much of West Africa turned to savanna or dry forest during dry periods.

In the campaign we are collecting leaf, wood and tree traits from canopy trees along this transect

The project is funded an ERC Advanced Investigator Award GEM-TRAIT, and a Royal Society-Leverhulme Africa Award.
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The Mali Elephants Project - OCTF talk

14/2/2015

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We hosted a fascinating and inspiring talk by Susan Canney on the conservation of the desert elephants of Mali, a fascinating case study of how to work well with local communities to achieve conservation. 
More details of the project can be found here: 


Here is a TedX mini-version of the talk:
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    Yadvinder Malhi is an ecosytem ecologist and Professor of Ecosystem Science at Oxford University

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