Dr. Angela de Avila has received Thurn und Taxis Incentive Award for Forest Sciences 2017
Dr. Angela de Avila of the Chair of Siviculture has received the Thurn und Taxis Incentive Award for Forest Sciences, with an endowment of 6,000 euros. Her dissertation analyzed a 30 year experiment into whether Brazil’s tropical rainforests in the Amazon can be sustainably managed from an ecological perspective. De Avila investigated how resilient the diversity and composition of tree species as well as the carbon stocks of the forests are to human intervention.