Spatial dynamics of tropical forest biomass change

Project Information

SPATFOREST

Grant agreement ID: 622744

Project closed

Start date 1 May 2014

End date 30 April 2016

Funded under

• Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 221 606,40

EU contribution € 221 606,40

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
United Kingdom

Objective

International climate change mitigation policies envisage carbon storage in tropical forests. Long-term studies have reported an increase of above-ground biomass (AGB) accumulation in tropical forest trees in recent decades, presumably due to an increase in atmospheric CO2, but this signal is heterogeneous across space and time. This heterogeneity limits our capacity to forecast future changes in AGB in response to climate change predictions. The spatio-temporal dynamics of AGB change are determined by the cumulative effects of interactions in local tree neighbourhoods influencing the growth and mortality of individual trees. Understanding these neighbourhood interactions is challenging because it requires spatially-explicit data-sets of tree demography over several decades, high-resolution data on environmental covariates, and complex statistical modelling techniques. SpatForest aims to address this challenge by developing statistical models of tree demography and AGB dynamics in tropical forest that explicitly account for variation in local biotic and abiotic environments. By including terms for environmental factors that are likely to respond to future climate change, the models developed during SpatForest will enhance our ability to forecast changes in AGB of tropical forests.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• social sciences › sociology › demography › mortality
• natural sciences › mathematics › applied mathematics › statistics and probability
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › atmospheric sciences › climatology › climatic changes
• agricultural sciences › agricultural biotechnology › biomass

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Programme(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF - Marie-Curie Action: "Intra-European fellowships for career development"

Call for proposal

FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF
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Funding Scheme

MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)

Coordinator

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

• EU contribution: € 221 606,40
• Address: KING'S COLLEGE REGENT WALK ; AB24 3FX Aberdeen ; United Kingdom
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Total cost: No data