About TREES (TRopical Ecosystems and Environmental Sciences lab)
TREES laboratory is a research group led by Dr Luiz Aragão. The group was created in 2009 when Dr Aragão moved from the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford to the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter in UK. Dr Aragão is now based at the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil, the current headquarters of TREES. The group's expertise is on assessing the impacts of environmental changes on tropical ecosystems using remote sensing and field surveys. TREES members are trained in a multidisciplinary range of techniques and a multitude of instrumentation, technologies and approaches.
TREES laboratory is a research group led by Dr Luiz Aragão. The group was created in 2009 when Dr Aragão moved from the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford to the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter in UK. Dr Aragão is now based at the National Institute for Space Research in Brazil, the current headquarters of TREES. The group's expertise is on assessing the impacts of environmental changes on tropical ecosystems using remote sensing and field surveys. TREES members are trained in a multidisciplinary range of techniques and a multitude of instrumentation, technologies and approaches.
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Projects
The project "FATE-Amazônia" (Fire-Associated Transient Emissions) with a title in portuguese: “Quantificação de áreas florestais queimadas e modelagem de emissões de carbono: Proposta de um sistema de monitoramento integrado para a Amazônia”, led by TREES' researchers in collaboration with the Federal University of Ouro Preto, INPA, UFAC, Univ. of Lancaster and EMBRAPA was one of the 14 projects selected for funds within CNPq call for proposals: MCTI/CNPq/FNDCT – Ação Transversal - nº 68/2013 – Programa de Grande Escala da Biosfera-Atmosfera na Amazônia – LBA.
The project "Understanding the response of photosynthetic metabolism in tropical forests to seasonal climate variations" led by TREES' researchers in collaboration with the Department of Energy, USA and the Federal University of Amazonas was one of the six projects selected for funds to be part of a major scientific program in Amazonia - GOAMAZON2014.
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Books and Editions
New Special Issue of Plant Ecology and Diversity (2013): Ecosystem Dynamics of Amazonian and Andean Forests
New book on the causes and consequences of drought in Amazonia Published by Oficina de Textos
Have a look inside the book!
Three chapters authored by the TREES Team |
Journal Articles
New publication in Biogeosciences on Fractal properties of forest fires in Amazonia as a basis for modelling pan-tropical burnt area.
Fletcher et al. (2014). 
New publication in Biological Reviews on Environmental change and the carbon balance of Amazonia.
Aragão et al. (2014). 
New publication in Scientific Reports on Drought impacts on children’s respiratory health in the Brazilian Amazon. Lauren Smith et al. (2014)
New publication in Environmental Research Letters on the phenology of Amazonian trees viewed from space. Fabrício B Silva et al 2013 Environ. Res. Lett. 8 024011 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024011
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