Scientific Lecture: Valuing, mapping and conservation of carbon stocks and ecosystem services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania
Presentation: Valuing, mapping and conservation of carbon stocks and ecosystem services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania
Dr Simon L. Lewis is a Royal Society university research fellow at the Earth & Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds. A plant ecologist by training (PhD, University of Cambridge), his current main research focus is to better understand the recent past, present and near future trajectory of the tropical forest biome as tropical trees respond to, and affect, global environmental changes.
Last year he quantified carbon sink value of African tropical forests, and forest across the tropics (1.3 Pg C yr-1; Lewis et al. 2009, Nature), but showed this important ecosystem service is vulnerable to a changing climate (Phillips et al. 2009, Science).
He co-ordinates the African Tropical Rainforest Observation Network (www.afritron.org), a network of long-term forest monitoring sites across 10 African countries, and co-manages the carbon component of the Valuing the Arc project with Professor Pantaleo Munishi.