| Citation | Professor Yadvinder Malhi is distinguished for his pioneering and interdisciplinary research on the biosphere and its interactions with climate and the Earth System. His work integrates insights from ecosystem ecology and Earth System science to understand how tropical ecosystems are responding to global change. He is renowned for establishing an innovative network of research and sentinel forest plots throughout the world’s tropics. The physical and biological data collected on the ground, combined with satellite data and modeling provide extremely important new insights into the global carbon cycle, forest dynamics and the resilience of tropical ecosystems to climate change. |