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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The turbo trees of the future
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Latest publications
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Chemical differentiation of Bolivian Cedrela species as a tool to trace illegal timber trade
Forestry (2018). - ISSN 0015-752X
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Can traits predict individual growth performance? A test in a hyperdiverse tropical forest
New Phytologist 219 (2018)1. - ISSN 0028-646X - p. 109 - 121.
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Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests
Nature Ecology & Evolution (2018). - ISSN 2397-334X
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Forest strata-dependent functional evenness explains whole-community aboveground biomass through opposing mechanisms
Forest Ecology and Management 424 (2018). - ISSN 0378-1127 - p. 439 - 447.
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Effects of wild ungulates on the regeneration, structure and functioning of temperate forests: A semi-quantitative review
Forest Ecology and Management 424 (2018). - ISSN 0378-1127 - p. 406 - 419.