Understanding Biodiversity: Floristic and Environmental Variation in the Tropical Forests

School of Geography, University of Leeds

Principal Investigator

Oliver Philips

Dates

30th September 1996 - 31st December 1999

Grant

NERC Fellowship Award GT5/96/6/TS

Summary

The project explores the factors controlling the distributions of tropical plants, and assesses the ability of satellite images to predict biodiversity patterns.

Work is concentrated in two segments of western Amazonia, the biologically richest section of the world's largest tropical forest.