This practice has been going on for decades. First trees needs to be put down with the help of tractors, and then they are left to dry out during the dry season. In Brazil, deforestation follows a well-known pattern. The fate of the tropical rainforest is a cause for particular concern, as the Amazon jungle is a unique carbon reservoir and hosts the most diverse biome on the planet. The sensors measure temperature and humidity, and will provide a long term perspective on how changes in the forest structure are related to microclimate changes in the edge of fragments. In addition, Maeda and his team have installed microclimate sensors resembling the destroying angel mushroom. The data accrued over a five-year monitoring period will be used to model changes in the forest structure. Postdoctoral Researcher Matheus Nunes is currently in Brazil collecting repeated Laser scanning measurements, every 15 days, to see how forest fragmentation affects the dynamics of the forest (eg. The data will be used to study how degradation changes the forest environment close to the edges. He used Laser scanning methods to create very detailed 3-D models of the forest. In spring 2019 Maeda visited the longest running fragmentation experiment in the tropics, located in the middle of Amazonia. Human activity impacts forests all across the globe-as much as 70 percent of the world's forests are considered fringe areas due to their proximity to settlements, arable land or roads. The question is topical, as slash-and-burn clearing is fragmenting the Amazon rainforest into smaller and smaller plots. The fate of the plants, animals and habitats on the edges of Amazonia remains as yet uncertain, but investigations are being carried out by a project funded by the Academy of Finland and headed by Academy Research Fellow Eduardo Maeda, a native of Brazil, at the University of Helsinki, with the aim of finding increasingly effective conservation methods.
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