The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) joined forces in 2019, leveraging a combined 65 years’ experience in research on the role of forests and trees in solving critical global challenges.
Mr Dossa is a forest engineer with an MSc in forest ecology. He decided to go further with his studies and joined the Chinese Academy of Sciences to pursue a Ph.D. in forest ecology. Mr Dossa has broad interests in biological sciences. However, his current research is related to biodiversity, carbon sequestration and wood decomposition with focus on assessing CO2 efflux from woody debris (WD) through disturbance gradient and its relation to forest composition. He is also looking at the factors influencing WD decomposition in tropical environments. Additionally, he examines the role wood traits and phylogeny in WD decomposition. Mr Dossa aims to improve the parameterization of the respiration rate of WD in order to accurately incorporate it into the global models of carbon cycle.