My long-term research goal is to understand the dynamics of carbon and biodiversity across the world’s tropical forests, how these change with our changing climate, and how they feedback on the whole planet.

The scale of the endeavour is large, requiring global teamwork and a multidisciplinary approach. I lead a team of researchers to understand the behaviour of Amazonian forests in the changing earth system, and actively collaborate with hundreds of colleagues to create a bottom-up observatory of some of Earth’s richest ecosystems.