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Airborne mapping of the tree canopy in a tropical West African forest

If you go down to the woods today…

10 Feb 2015

Recent advances in medical imaging are being applied to airborne remote sensing of vegetation, enabling conservation scientists to see the wood and...

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Deforestation starves fish

11 Jun 2014

Research shows forest debris that drains into lakes is an important contributor to freshwater food chains – bolstering fish diets to the extent that...

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Shedding light on forests

21 May 2013

By using advanced imaging technology, scientists are able to map on an unprecedentedly large scale – and in remarkably accurate detail - what is...

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Forest

Trade-offs highlighted at UN conference on biodiversity

24 Oct 2012

Prioritising social and economic objectives alongside environmental concerns is crucial in forest management, says Cambridge researcher at the United...

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Gola Forest credit Jeremy Lindsell

Canopy commerce: forest conservation and poverty alleviation

03 Feb 2012

Innovative approaches for protecting the future of Sierra Leone’s Gola Forest – globally important for its biodiversity and its carbon reserves – are...

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‘GiganteForest’: A view through the undergrowth in tropical forest at the study site in Panama

Increased tropical forest growth could release carbon from the soil

16 Aug 2011

Study highlights how litterfall could lead to a release of stored carbon from the soil

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Amazon leaf canopy

Forests and global change

28 Mar 2011

The future of forests in a changing world will be debated at an international conference in Cambridge this week.

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