KITE
Environment Department
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD
UK
Tel (01904) 434061
Fax (01904) 432998
email
rm524@york.ac.uk
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Welcome to the website for the York Institute for Tropical
Ecosystem Dynamics (KITE) based at the
Environment Department
at the University of York
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The York Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Dynamics (KITE) is a
Marie-Curie funded Excellence Centre, that explores the relationship
between ecosystem dynamics, climate change, and human impacts in
Africa. The key elements of our research are to:
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Determine ecosystem response to
climate change by focusing on an area of particularly high
biodiversity. |
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Determine the role of human impacts
on present forest composition and long-term ecosystem
functioning. |
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Determine pollen-vegetation
relationships and develop methods to link site-scale fossil data
to landscape. |
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Develop and test models to link
past, present and future ecosystem functioning at different
spatial scales. |
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Produce results to inform
management and policy formation both in the study area and more
generically.
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Andy Marshall has
joined the team on a new project modelling
relationships between ecosystem dynamics, climate change, and human
impacts along the Amboseli and Cross boarder National Park area of
Kenya and Tanzania.
The recently
published TRAFFIC report into logging in Tanzania is available to
download
here.
Click here for more details of
recent and upcoming KITE activity.
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Site designed by Dave Hay and maintained by the Kite
team, contact
Rob Marchant |
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