Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Current Research Interests
Vegetation-atmosphere gas exchange; interactions of carbon, nutrient and hydrological cycles; primary productivity and plant allocation; ecosystem models and scaling; climate controls on vegetation distribution; data
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Development of a spatially explicit forest succession model, University of East Anglia
Award Date: 1 Jan 1994
External positions
Science Board, NERC
1 Jan 2016 → 1 Jan 2020
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Precipitation-fire-functional interactions control biomass stocks and carbon exchanges across the world’s largest savanna
Williams, M., Milodowski, D. T., Smallman, T. L., Dexter, K. G., Hegerl, G. C., McNicol, I. M., O'Sullivan, M., Roesch, C. M., Ryan, C. M., Sitch, S. & Valade, A., 12 Aug 2024, Copernicus Publications, p. 1-32, 32 p. (EGUsphere).Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Synthesis of the land carbon fluxes of the Amazon region between 2010 and 2020
Rosan, T. M., Sitch, S., O'Sullivan, M., Basso, L. S., Wilson, C., Silva, C., Gloor, E., Fawcett, D., Henrich, V., Souza, J. G., Bezerra, F. G. S., von Randow, C., Mercado, L. M., Gatti, L., Wiltshire, A., Friedlingstein, P., Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., Williams, M., Smallman, T. L., & 19 others, 22 Jan 2024, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 5, 46.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Precipitation gradients drive high tree species turnover in the woodlands of eastern and southern Africa
Davies, R. W., Ryan, C., Harrison, R. D., Dexter, K., Ahrends, A., Beest, M. T., Benitez, L., Brade, T., Carreiras, J. M. B., Druce, D. J., Fayolle, A., Finckh, M., Godlee, J., Gonclaves, F. M., Grundy, I., Hoche, T., Holdo, R. M., Makungwa, S., McNicol, I., Mograbi, P., & 12 others, Oct 2023, In: Ecography. 2023, 10, e06720.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Isolating the effects of land use and functional variation on Yucatán's forest biomass under global change
Williams, M., George, S. P., Smallman, T. L., Manuel Dupuy, J., Hernandez-Stefanoni, J. L. & Milodowski, D., 28 Sept 2023, In: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 6, 1204596.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Atmospheric CO2 inversion reveals the Amazon as a minor carbon source caused by fire emissions, with forest uptake offsetting about half of these emissions
Basso, L. S., Wilson, C., Chipperfield, M. P., Tejada, G., Cassol, H. L. G., Arai, E., Williams, M., Smallman, T. L., Peters, W., Naus, S., Miller, J. B. & Gloor, M., 1 Sept 2023, In: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2023Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Williams, Mathew (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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SECO: Resolving the current and future carbon dynamics of the dry tropics
Ryan, C., Dexter, K., Hegerl, G. & Williams, M.
Natural Environment Research Council
1/05/21 → 30/04/26
Project: Research
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SECO: Resolving the current and future carbon dynamics of the dry tropics
Ryan, C., Dexter, K., Hegerl, G. & Williams, M.
1/11/20 → 31/10/25
Project: Research
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Datasets
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Isolating the effects of forest regrowth and functional adjustments upon global change impacts on Yucatán's forest biomass
Williams, M. (Creator), Dupuy, J. M. (Creator), Hernández-Stefanoni, J. L. (Creator), Milodowski, D. T. (Creator), Smallman, L. (Creator) & George, S. P. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 15 May 2023
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3858
Dataset
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CARDAMOM driving data and C-cycle model outputs to accompany "Resolving scale-variance in the carbon dynamics of fragmented, mixed-use landscapes estimated using Model-Data Fusion"
Milodowski, D. (Creator), Smallman, L. (Creator) & Williams, M. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 23 Aug 2022
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3843
Dataset
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Aggregated Canopy Model for Gross Primary Productivity and Evapotranspiration (Version 1)
Smallman, L. (Creator) & Williams, M. (Creator), University of Edinburgh. National Centre for Earth Observation and School of GeoSciences., 21 Dec 2018
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2480
Dataset
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Global GPP simulated by the JULES land surface model for 2001-2010
Slevin, D. (Creator), Tett, S. (Creator) & Williams, M. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 16 Aug 2016
DOI: 10.7488/ds/1461
Dataset
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Data accompanying Milodowski et al. (Journal of Applied Ecology, 2021): "The impact of logging on vertical canopy structure across a gradient of tropical forest degradation intensity in Borneo"
Milodowski, D. (Creator), Coomes, D. A. (Creator), Swinfield, T. W. (Creator), Jucker, T. (Creator), Terhi, R. (Creator), Malhi, Y. (Creator), Svátek, M. (Creator), Kvasnica, J. (Creator), Nilus, R. (Creator), Burslem, D. F. R. P. (Creator), Ewers, R. M. (Creator), Teh, Y. A. (Creator) & Williams, M. (Creator), Zenodo, 23 Mar 2021
https://zenodo.org/records/4572775
Dataset
Press/Media
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Climate change hinders Amazon rainforest’s ability to hold carbon, says Mathew Williams (GeoSciences)
16/11/17 → 25/11/17
3 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Thomas Crowley and William (GeoSciences) shed light on causes of climate variability
Thomas Crowley & Mathew Williams
31/07/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Professor Mathew Williams set to use satellites to map the world's forests
8/09/13
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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GeoSciences' Dr Mathew Williams comments on space explorer
12/05/13
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment