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Profiles
Dr Sophie Fauset
Lecturer in Environmental Science
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Role
Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in Environmental Science.
Qualifications
Academic background:
2012 PhD Geography. University of Leeds, UK. Thesis title - 'Two decades of change in Ghanaian forests: the impacts of three potential threats to tropical forest structure and composition'.2008 BSc (Hons) Biology with a Year in Research/Industry. Imperial College London, UK.
Employment History:
2016-2018 Research Fellow, University of Leeds, UK.
2015 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.
2012-2014 Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, University of Leeds. UK.
Professional membership
British Ecological Society
Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
Roles on external bodies
Associate Editor - Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (Tropical Forests)
Review Editor - Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (Forest Ecophysiology)
Teaching interests
I teach on the BSc Environment Science and BSc Environmental Management and Sustainability
ENVS1001 - Carbon in Environmental Systems
ENVS1003 - The Biosphere
ENVS2002 - Environmental Expedition (Malaysia field course)
ENVS2001 - Environmental Field and Research Skills
ENVS3005 - Global Environmental Perspectives
ENVS3008 - Biodiversity Management in Tropical Ecosystems
Research interests
My research interests are in the response of tropical forests to global change, including the impacts of climate change, increasing CO2, and forest degradation. I have experience in tropical forest ecology, ecophysiology and ecosystem modelling. My current broad goal is to use plant functional triats to understand physiological responses of tree and forests to environmental change.
Grants & contracts
Post-Doctoral Fellowship - FAPESP (Sao Paulo Research Foundation) covering salary and research expenses.
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2018
'Differences in leaf thermoregulation and water use strategies between three co-occurring Atlantic forest tree species'
Plant, Cell & Environment
41,
(7)
1618-1631
, DOI
2017
'Tropical forest light regimes in a human-modified landscape'
Ecosphere
8,
(11)
e02002-e02002
, DOI
2017
'Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome'
Scientific Reports
7,
(1)
, DOI
2016
'Amazon forest response to repeated droughts'
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
30,
(7)
964-982
, DOI
2016
'Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models'
Global Change Biology
22,
(12)
3996-4013
, DOI
2016
'Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro)'
Geoscientific Model Development
9,
(11)
4227-4255
, DOI
2015
'Evidence for arrested succession in a liana-infested Amazonian forest'
Journal of Ecology
104,
(1)
149-159
, DOI
2015
'Using repeated small-footprint LiDAR acquisitions to infer spatial and temporal variations of a high-biomass Neotropical forest'
Remote Sensing of Environment
169,
93-101
, DOI
2015
'Floristics and biogeography of vegetation in seasonally dry tropical regions'
International Forestry Review
17,
(2)
10-32
, DOI
2013
'Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests'
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
368,
(1625)
20120295-20120295
, DOI
2012
'Drought-induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana'
Ecology Letters
15,
(10)
1120-1129
, DOI
2011
'Predicting alpha diversity of African rain forests: models based on climate and satellite-derived data do not perform better than a purely spatial model'
Journal of Biogeography
38,
(6)
1164-1176
, DOI