Jacques tagging leaves in Makera

Leaf tagging team in Makera

Trees are growing bigger and bigger! Here a Ficus thonningii at the Makera site.

Aloysie tagging leaves for leaf longevity study.

Lousie, Emelyne and Assad making soil sampling in Ruhande Arboretum.

Aloysie with (most of) supervisors after the successful disesrtation in Kigali on November 16th - a great day!

Aloysie's PhD thesis is nailed at the University of Gothenburg!

Etienne and Jacques extracting fine roots.

Lasse making Leaf Area Index measurements.

Camille in his "embolism lab".

New soil sampling for vertical profile of 18O in soil water.

Manzi measuring for gmin determination.

Field campaign to sample for measurements of embolism vulnerability and bark conductance. From left to right, upper row: Etienne, Josephine and Camille. In front: Jacques.

Faurea saligna branches and leaves measured for embolism vulnerability with the optical method

PhD student position in our project announced at UR. Contact Donat Nsabimana if you are interested in applying, donatus_1999@yahoo.fr

John Marshall sampling soil at depths down to 2 m, at all control plots at all sites. The 18O content of soil water and xylem sap will be determined for estimation of functional rooting depth of different species.

Visit in Gothenburg by Aida Cuni Sanchez from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences; here together with her Xavi.

Field course with students from Lund University, Sweden, and the University of Rwanda visiting Rubona field site

PhD student course entitled “Tropical tree eco(physio)logy: field methods and data analyses” held at the University of Rwanda, Huye campus, 6-11 February 2023

PhD class visiting Nyungwe forest