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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Extensive study into sustainable logging -
Researchers map how trees, fungi and bacteria collaborate on nutrient exchange worldwide -
Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite pathways in forest recovery -
Lourens Poorter wins ECR grant for boost cutting-edge research -
Three Wageningen top researchers win ERC grants to boost cutting-edge research
Latest publications
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Functional diversity and composition of Caatinga woody flora are negatively impacted by chronic anthropogenic disturbance
Journal of Ecology (2019). - ISSN 0022-0477
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Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time
Nature Ecology & Evolution (2019). - ISSN 2397-334X
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Genetic differences among Cedrela odorata sites in Bolivia provide limited potential for fine-scale timber tracing
Tree Genetics and Genomes 15 (2019)3. - ISSN 1614-2942
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Amazonian rainforest tree mortality driven by climate and functional traits
Nature Climate Change 9 (2019)5. - ISSN 1758-678X - p. 384 - 388.
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The hydraulic efficiency-safety trade-off differs between lianas and trees
Ecology 100 (2019)5. - ISSN 0012-9658