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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
2020
'Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests'
Science
368,
(6493)
869-874
, DOI
PEARL
2020
'Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa'
Ecology
, DOI
PEARL
2020
'Photosynthetic quantum efficiency in
south‐eastern
Amazonian trees may be already affected by climate change'
Plant, Cell & Environment
, DOI
PEARL
2020
'Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests'
Nature
579,
(7797)
80-87
, DOI
PEARL
2019
'A Spatial and Temporal Risk Assessment of the Impacts of El Niño on the Tropical Forest Carbon Cycle: Theoretical Framework, Scenarios, and Implications'
Atmosphere
10,
(10)
588-588
, DOI
PEARL
2019
'Individual-Based Modeling of Amazon Forests Suggests That Climate Controls Productivity While Traits Control Demography'
Frontiers in Earth Science
7,
, DOI
PEARL
2019
'Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long-term drought'
Ecology Letters
22,
(5)
855-865
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Contrasting responses of stomatal conductance and photosynthetic capacity to warming and elevated CO2 in the tropical tree species Alchornea glandulosa under heatwave conditions'
Environmental and Experimental Botany
, DOI
PEARL
2018
'Differences in leaf thermoregulation and water use strategies between three co-occurring Atlantic forest tree species'
Plant, Cell and Environment
41,
(7)
1618-1631
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Tropical forest light regimes in a human-modified landscape'
Ecosphere
8,
(11)
e02002-e02002
, DOI
PEARL
2017
'Carbon uptake by mature Amazon forests has mitigated Amazon nations’ carbon emissions'
Carbon Balance and Management
12,
(1)
31-41
, DOI
2017
'Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome'
Scientific Reports
7,
(1)
, DOI
PEARL
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
PEARL
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
PEARL
2016
'Amazon forest response to repeated droughts'
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
30,
(7)
964-982
, DOI
PEARL
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
PEARL
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