MONTHLY UPDATES
MONTHLY UPDATES
August 2024
New article published by Olivier, to be found here: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.20013
July 2024
Göran presenting keynote at the annual meeting of Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) held in Kigail.
June 2024
Jacques and Aloysie monitoring tagged leaves, here at Makera site.
May 2024
Olivier learning to master the optical method for embolism resistance determination in Sylvain Delzon's lab at INRA Bordeaux, France.
April 2024 (A)
Workshop at Rwanda Forestry Authority, including training as well as planning for future collaboration regarding tree plantation monitoring and evaluation.
April 2024 (B)
Increasing the height of masts with IR sensors for canopy temperature measurements at all sites.
March 2024 (A)
Jacques tagging leaves in Makera
March 2024 (B)
Leaf tagging team in Makera
February 2024
Trees are growing bigger and bigger! Here a Ficus thonningii at the Makera site.
January 2024 (A)
Aloysie tagging leaves for leaf longevity study.
January 2024 (B)
Lousie, Emelyne and Assad making soil sampling in Ruhande Arboretum.
November 2023
Aloysie with (most of) supervisors after the successful disesrtation in Kigali on November 16th - a great day!
October 2023 (A)
Aloysie's PhD thesis is nailed at the University of Gothenburg!
October 2023 (B)
Etienne and Jacques extracting fine roots.
October 2023 (C)
Lasse making Leaf Area Index measurements.
October 2023 (D)
Camille in his "embolism lab".
October 2023 (E)
New soil sampling for vertical profile of 18O in soil water.
October 2023 (F)
Manzi measuring for gmin determination.
September 2023 (A)
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.
September 2023 (B)
Faurea saligna branches and leaves measured for embolism vulnerability with the optical method