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Projects - dr. M (Mart) Vlam

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  Tracing tropical timber - Timtrace. Developing a commercial forensic tool for tracing the geographic origin of tropical timber.

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  TIMTRACE - vlaggraduateschool.nl

  An estimated 50-90 percent of the traded volume of tropical timber is illegally sourced. To implement new European legislation intended to eliminate...
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  Accelerated tropical forest dynamics, a pan-tropical tree ring study

  Permanent plot studies have shown remarkable increases in above ground biomass of intact rainforest stands across the tropics. Furthermore several...
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  TROFOCLIM - Tropical forests and climate change: understanding links to predict future responses

  Tropical forests cover just 7% of the Earth’s surface, but store 25% of the global terrestrial carbon pool and account for a third of net...