Dr Alexander Cheesman – Founder, Sylvan Environmental

Alexander is a tropical plant ecophysiologist, soil scientist and global change biologist with over two decades of field and laboratory research across some of the world’s most complex and threatened ecosystems.

His work spans multiple scales — from leaf-level physiology and soil biogeochemistry to ecosystem carbon cycling, water quality and nutrient dynamics — examining how tropical systems respond to interacting pressures including rising temperature, atmospheric CO₂, drought and air pollution. He combines tropical forest field studies with controlled-environment experiments and process-based modelling to generate insight that is both scientifically rigorous and practically relevant and has worked extensively across tropical wetlands, forests and degraded landscapes in Australia, Panama and beyond