PhD alum Yan Yang publishes in Nature Communications
Yan Yang, a 2017 PhD graduate, recently published part of her dissertation research in Nature Communications. In “Post-drought Decline of the Amazon Carbon Sink” Yang and her colleagues report a significant loss of carbon over the entire Amazon basin at a rate of 0.3 +/- 0.2 PgC per year after the 2005 mega-drought, which continued persistently over the next three years (2005-2008) using systematic sampling of forest structure measured by LIDAR waveforms. Dr. Yang is affiliated with UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
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