People Professor Yadvinder Malhi
Co-Director, Oxford Martin TNC Climate Partnership
Professor of Ecosystem Science
Yadvinder Malhi is Professor of Ecosystem Science at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Programme Leader of the Ecosystems Group at the Environmental Change Institute and the Jackson Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. He is Co-Director of the Oxford Martin TNC Climate Partnership and Director of the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests, a network of university departments, NGOs and local businesses that seeks to address the major issues facing the future of tropical forests in the 21st century.
He is also a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London and part of their programme on Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment, an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of the Environment and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in the UK.
He leads the Ecosystems Programme of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University, which is composed of an Ecosystems Lab focused on the natural science of tropical forests and global change, and a Forest Governance Group focussed on social science and policy issues around the protection of tropical forests.
Opinions
Videos
- May 2018
- Planetary health: does our planet have boundaries? with Prof Yadvinder Malhi and Kate Raworth
- Jun 2016
- How do climate change and extreme weather impact our ecosystems?
- Jan 2015
- The metabolism of a human-dominated planet
- Nov 2014
- Is the Planet Full?
- Mar 2014
- Megafauna - what was the impact of its loss, and should we 'rewild'?
- Jul 2013
- Oxford Impacts - Rainforest biodiversity
- Apr 2013
- The laboratory with leaves
- Aug 2012
- What can the world's forests teach us about climate change?
Selected Publications
- Mar 2015
- Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia
- May 2014
- Is the planet full?
- Jan 2014
- How tree roots in tropical mountains have helped stabilise the Earth's climate
- Aug 2013
- The legacy of the Pleistocene megafauna extinctions on nutrient availability in Amazonia
- Jan 2013
- 100 fundamental ecological questions
- Jan 2013
- Persistent effects of a severe drought on Amazonian forest canopy
- Dec 2009
- The variation of apparent crown size and canopy heterogeneity across lowland Amazonian forests
- Feb 2009
- Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest
- Jan 2009
- The Production, Storage, and Flow of Carbon in Amazonian Forests
Media Coverage
- Apr 2014
- Amazon trees vulnerable to fire and climate combination
- Mar 2014
- Ecologists learn lessons from the 'ghosts of megafauna'
- Feb 2014
- Radio: Malcolm Boyden
- Feb 2014
- Tree roots act as 'Earth's thermostat': Mountain forest growth has stabilised the Earth's climate for millions of years
- Jan 2013
- Double droughts caused by changing climate damage one third of Amazon rainforest
- Jan 2013
- Amazon showing signs of degradation due to climate change, Nasa warns
- Jan 2013
- Megadrought took long-lasting toll on Amazon
- Jan 2012
- Africa's rainforests 'more resilient' to climate change
- Oct 2011
- What do 7 billion people mean for our global future?
- Mar 2011
- 60 seconds with Yadvinder Malhi