Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group
We aim to understand the structure and functioning of forest ecosystems and their responses to changing environmental, biotic and social conditions, and to apply this knowledge for the development of sustainable forest resource use systems.
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Dutch tree sends tweets about climate change
If only trees could talk… Well they can now. A thirty-something-year-old poplar tree on the campus of Wageningen University & Research is currently tweeting about how it deals with hot, dry days without enough water, and the conditions in which it grows best. The data is helping researchers to analyse the interaction between tree growth and extreme weather conditions.
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Millennial-scale effects of human disturbance on tropical forests -
The sound of 2018 – how a poplar perceived the heatwave in 2018 -
Regrowing tropical forests recover fast in tree species richness, but slow in species composition -
Frans Bongers and Lourens Poorter among 1% most cited researchers -
Amazon rainforest struggling to adapt to climate change
Latest publications
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Convergent xylem widening among organs across diverse woody seedlings
New Phytologist (2019). - ISSN 0028-646X
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A 7000-year history of changing plant trait composition in an Amazonian landscape; the role of humans and climate
Ecology Letters (2019). - ISSN 1461-023X
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Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests
Science Advances 5 (2019)3. - ISSN 2375-2548 - 10 p.
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Removing the no-analogue bias in modern accelerated tree growth leads to stronger medieval drought
Scientific Reports 9 (2019)1. - ISSN 2045-2322
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A climate-sensitive forest model for assessing impacts of forest management in Europe
Environmental Modelling & Software 115 (2019). - ISSN 1364-8152 - p. 128 - 143.