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I am a Professor of Ecosystem Science at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford, Programme Leader of the Ecosystems Group at the Environmental Change Institute and the Jackson Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. I am also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of the Atmosphere and Biosphere, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, and at the Institute of the Environment and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

I lead an active and expanding Ecosystems Dynamics Lab, which currently hosts six postdoctoral researchers and thirteen DPhil researchers. The broad scope of my research interests is the impact of global atmospheric change on the ecology, structure and composition of terrestrial ecosystems, and in particular temperate and tropical forests.

This research addresses fundamental questions about ecosystem function and dynamics, whilst at the same time providing outputs of direct relevance for conservation and adaptation to climate change. A particular new focus is on the role that the international carbon markets and climate change framework can play in protecting tropical forests. We apply a range of techniques including field physiological studies, large-scale and long-term ecological monitoring, satellite remote-sensing and GIS, ecosystem modelling, and micrometeorological techniques.

We have a particular focus on tropical forests, and an extensive ongoing research programme in Asia, Africa and particularly across the Amazon and Andes region. We also have an expanding network of research in temperate woodlands in the Upper Thames region

Link to Malhi Ecosystems Lab WebPage here

Vega Trust//BBC2 Documentary, November 2005 (15 minutes, RealPlayer required)

Tropical Forests: Thriving or Surviving in a 21st Century Atmosphere ? A Public Lecture at the Royal Society of London, March 2004 (download 85 MB!)

Spatial Patterns and Temporal Trends in the Climate and Forests of Amazonia, Seminar at the University of Colombia, Leticia, Colombia, November 2004 (download 57 MB)

Undergraduate lecture: Tropical Forests and Atmospheric Change, 2005 (download 55 MB)

Oxford University Centre for the Environment,

University of Oxford,

South Parks Road,Oxford OX1 3QY.

Tel: +44 1865 285 188

Fax: +44 1865 271 929

email: yadvinder.malhi@ouce.ox.ac.uk

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Last modified: 10 Jan 2008