Yadvinder Malhi

Yadvinder Malhi
FRS
Yadvinder Malhi at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017
Born
Yadvinder Singh Malhi

1968 (age 57–58)[1]
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom[1]
EducationSouthend High School for Boys
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, MA)
University of Reading (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsEcosystem ecology
Tropical forests
Climate change[2]
WorkplacesUniversity of Oxford
University of Edinburgh
University of Reading
[3]
ThesisSensible heat flux from heterogeneous surfaces (1993)
  • Alan Ibbetson[4]
  • George Dugdale[4]
Websiteyadvindermalhi.org

Yadvinder Singh Malhi (Punjabi: ਯਦਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਮਲਹੀ, born 1968[1]) is a British ecologist who is Professor of Ecosystem Science at the University of Oxford[5][2] and a Jackson Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford.[6][7][8]

Education

Malhi was educated at Southend High School for Boys[1] and Queens' College, Cambridge where he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in natural sciences (specialising in physics) in 1990.[1][3] He completed postgraduate study at the University of Reading where he was awarded a PhD in meteorology in 1993 for research on the earth's energy budget and heat fluxes supervised by Alan Ibbetson and George Dugdale.[4]

Research and career

Malhi's early career focused on Amazonia, including some of the first measurements of carbon dioxide exchange in tropical forests [9] but in recent years his research interests have expanded across Africa and Asia. He has ongoing projects in Malaysia, the Ankasa Conservation Area, Kakum National Park and Kogyae Strict Nature Reserve in Ghana, Lopé National Park in Gabon, the Serra do Mar coastal forests in Brazil. He also conducts field research in tropical island restoration and in Arctic tundra. In the context of the UK he has particular interests in ecosystems restoration, and also conducts extensive ecological research at Wytham Woods[10] the Amazon rainforest[11][12][13] and the Andes.[14] He co-founded the RAINFOR network of forest plots across the Amazon forest (with Oliver Phillips), helped establish a 3500 m elevation transect study in the Amazon-Andes of Peru, and more recently founded the Global Ecosystems Monitoring (GEM) network of intensively studied sites across the tropics.[15]

His work also makes use of microscale meteorology, global climate datasets, terrestrial ecosystem models and satellite remote sensing.[15] This work has contributed to our understanding of the carbon sink in the terrestrial biosphere, and to how it may be vulnerable to climate warming.[15] Malhi's research interests extend to a broad understanding of contemporary change in the biosphere and how to navigate it through the Anthropocene, through a combination of natural sciences, social sciences and science policy.[15][16]

With Oliver Phillips at the University of Leeds, he co-edited the book Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change published in 2005 by Oxford University Press.[17][18] He was one of the 620 global contributors to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.

As part of his teaching activities, he leads field trips to Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire.[3] Malhi's research has been funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC),[19] the Royal Society, the European Union,[3] the European Research Council (ERC), the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Microsoft Research and the Earthwatch Institute.[3] Before moving in Oxford in 2004,[1] Malhi was a postdoctoral researcher(1995–1999) and Royal Society University Research Fellow (1999-2004) at the University of Edinburgh.[20]

He was President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) over 2017-2019,[21] and was President of the British Ecological Society (2021-2022).[22]

In May 2020 he was appointed Trustee of London's Natural History Museum.[23] On 26 April 2024 Malhi was reappointed for a four-year term.[22]

Awards and honours

Malhi was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017[15] having previously been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) from 1999 to 2005.[1]

In 2026 Malhi was elected a Fellow of the British Ecological Society.[24]

Malhi was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to ecosystem science.[25]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Anon (2011). "Malhi, Prof. Yadvinder Singh". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.250705. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 Yadvinder Malhi publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Malhi, Yadvinder (2017). "Yadvinder Malhi Curriculum Vitae". yadvindermalhi.org. Archived from the original on 17 February 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 Malhi, Yadvinder Singh (1993). Sensible heat flux from heterogeneous surfaces. copac.jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Reading. OCLC 59851222. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.357894. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2017.(registration required)
  5. ↑ Yadvinder Malhi publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ↑ Malhi, Yadvinder (2017). "Professor Yadvinder Malhi". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 15 August 2017.
  7. ↑ Malhi, Yadvinder (2017). "Professor Yadvinder Malhi, School of Geography and the Environment". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 26 February 2017.
  8. ↑ Hay Levels: Geography, Population & Resources with Yadvinder Malhi on YouTube, Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye
  9. ↑ Malhi, Yadvinder; Nobre, Antonio D.; Grace, John; Kruijt, Bart; Pereira, Maria G. P.; Culf, Alistair; Scott, Steve (1998). "Benjamin Sanderson". Journal of Geophysical Research. 103 (D24). Bibcode:1998JGR...10331593M. doi:10.1029/98JD02647.
  10. ↑ "Ecosystems Lab". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
  11. ↑ Coelho de Souza, Fernanda; Dexter, Kyle G.; Phillips, Oliver L.; Brienen, Roel J. W.; Chave, Jerome; Galbraith, David R.; Lopez Gonzalez, Gabriela; Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel; Pennington, R. Toby; Poorter, Lourens; Alexiades, Miguel; Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban; Andrade, Ana; Aragão, Luis E. O. C.; Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro; Arets, Eric J. M. M.; Aymard C, Gerardo A.; Baraloto, Christopher; Barroso, Jorcely G.; Bonal, Damien; Boot, Rene G. A.; Camargo, José L. C.; Comiskey, James A.; Valverde, Fernando Cornejo; de Camargo, Plínio B.; Di Fiore, Anthony; Elias, Fernando; Erwin, Terry L.; Feldpausch, Ted R.; Ferreira, Leandro; Fyllas, Nikolaos M.; Gloor, Emanuel; Herault, Bruno; Herrera, Rafael; Higuchi, Niro; Honorio Coronado, Eurídice N.; Killeen, Timothy J.; Laurance, William F.; Laurance, Susan; Lloyd, Jon; Lovejoy, Thomas E.; Malhi, Yadvinder; Maracahipes, Leandro; Marimon, Beatriz S.; Marimon–Junior, Ben H.; Mendoza, Casimiro; Morandi, Paulo; Neill, David A.; Vargas, Percy Núñez; Oliveira, Edmar A.; Lenza, Eddie; Palacios, Walter A.; Peñuela-Mora, Maria C.; Pipoly, John J.; Pitman, Nigel C. A.; Prieto, Adriana; Quesada, Carlos A.; Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma; Rudas, Agustin; Ruokolainen, Kalle; Salomão, Rafael P.; Silveira, Marcos; Stropp, Juliana; ter Steege, Hans; Thomas-Caesar, Raquel; van der Hout, Peter; van der Heijden, Geertje M. F.; van der Meer, Peter J.; Vasquez, Rodolfo V.; Vieira, Simone A.; Vilanova, Emilio; Vos, Vincent A.; Wang, Ophelia; Young, Kenneth R.; Zagt, Roderick J.; Baker, Timothy R. (2016). "Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 283 (1844) 20161587. Bibcode:2016PBioS.28361587C. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.1587. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 5204144. PMID 27974517. Open access icon
  12. ↑ Malhi, Y.; Roberts, J. T.; Betts, R. A.; Killeen, T. J.; Li, W.; Nobre, C. A. (2008). "Climate Change, Deforestation, and the Fate of the Amazon". Science. 319 (5860): 169–172. Bibcode:2008Sci...319..169M. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.389.7410. doi:10.1126/science.1146961. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 18048654. S2CID 33966731. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help) (subscription required)
  13. ↑ Malhi, Y.; Baldocchi, D. D.; Jarvis, P. G. (1999). "The carbon balance of tropical, temperate and boreal forests". Plant, Cell & Environment. 22 (6): 715–740. Bibcode:1999PCEnv..22..715M. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3040.1999.00453.x. ISSN 0140-7791.
  14. ↑ Clark, K. E.; Hilton, R. G.; West, A. J.; Robles Caceres, A.; Gröcke, D. R.; Marthews, T. R.; Ferguson, R. I.; Asner, G. P.; New, M.; Malhi, Y. (2017). "Erosion of organic carbon from the Andes and its effects on ecosystem carbon dioxide balance" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 122 (3): 449–469. Bibcode:2017JGRG..122..449C. doi:10.1002/2016JG003615. ISSN 2169-8953. S2CID 59462863.
  15. 1 2 3 4 5 Anon (2017). "Professor Yadvinder Malhi FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  16. ↑ Sutherland, William J.; Freckleton, Robert P.; Godfray, H. Charles J.; Beissinger, Steven R.; Benton, Tim; Cameron, Duncan D.; Carmel, Yohay; Coomes, David A.; Coulson, Tim; Emmerson, Mark C.; Hails, Rosemary S.; Hays, Graeme C.; Hodgson, Dave J.; Hutchings, Michael J.; Johnson, David; Jones, Julia P. G.; Keeling, Matt J.; Kokko, Hanna; Kunin, William E.; Lambin, Xavier; Lewis, Owen T.; Malhi, Yadvinder; Mieszkowska, Nova; Milner-Gulland, E. J.; Norris, Ken; Phillimore, Albert B.; Purves, Drew W.; Reid, Jane M.; Reuman, Daniel C.; Thompson, Ken; Travis, Justin M. J.; Turnbull, Lindsay A.; Wardle, David A.; Wiegand, Thorsten; Gibson, David (2013). "Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions" (PDF). Journal of Ecology. 101 (1): 58–67. Bibcode:2013JEcol.101...58S. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12025. ISSN 0022-0477. S2CID 37227167.
  17. ↑ Malhi, Yadvinder; Phillips, Oliver, eds. (2005). Tropical Forests and Global Atmospheric Change. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198567066.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-856706-6. OCLC 77178196.
  18. ↑ Malhi, Y.; Phillips, O. L. (2004). "Tropical forests and global atmospheric change: a synthesis". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 359 (1443): 549–555. doi:10.1098/rstb.2003.1449. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 1693340. PMID 15212102. Open access icon
  19. ↑ Anon (2017). "UK Government grants awarded to Yadvinder Malhi". gtr.rcuk.ac.uk. Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 15 August 2017.
  20. ↑ Grace, J.; Lloyd, J.; McIntyre, J.; Miranda, A. C.; Meir, P.; Miranda, H. S.; Nobre, C.; Moncrieff, J.; Massheder, J.; Malhi, Y.; Wright, I.; Gash, J. (1995). "Carbon Dioxide Uptake by an Undisturbed Tropical Rain Forest in Southwest Amazonia, 1992 to 1993". Science. 270 (5237): 778–780. Bibcode:1995Sci...270..778G. doi:10.1126/science.270.5237.778. ISSN 0036-8075. S2CID 128617010.
  21. ↑ "Front Matter". Biotropica. 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2026.
  22. 1 2 "Yadvinder Malhi is reappointed to the Natural History Museum Board". Gov UK. 26 April 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2026.
  23. ↑ "Yadvinder Malhi Awarded CBE in Queen's Birthday Honour". University of Oxford. 12 October 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2026.
  24. ↑ "Announcing the second round of BES Fellows". British Ecological Society. Retrieved 24 February 2026.
  25. ↑ "No. 63135". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 October 2020. p. B10.
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