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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Lourens Poorter wins ECR grant for boost cutting-edge research -
Three Wageningen top researchers win ERC grants to boost cutting-edge research -
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
Latest publications
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Combining tree species and decay stages to increase invertebrate diversity in dead wood
Forest Ecology and Management 441 (2019). - ISSN 0378-1127 - p. 80 - 88.
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Modelling carbon stock and carbon sequestration ecosystem services for policy design: a comprehensive approach using a dynamic vegetation model
Ecosystems and People 15 (2019)1. - ISSN 2639-5916 - p. 42 - 60.
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Magnetic resonance imaging suggests functional role of previous year vessels and fibres in ring-porous sap flow resumption
Tree Physiology (2019). - ISSN 0829-318X
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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