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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Frans Bongers and Lourens Poorter among 1% most cited researchers -
Amazon rainforest struggling to adapt to climate change -
Towards an operational service for forensic tracing of tropical timber -
Dry tropical forest legumes are important for secondary forest regrowth -
2018 UFW Research Award for Amazon research by Carolina Levis
Latest publications
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Spatial patterns of climate–growth relationships across species distribution as a forest management tool in Moncayo Natural Park (Spain)
European Journal of Forest Research (2019). - ISSN 1612-4669
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Whither the forest transition? Climate change, policy responses, and redistributed forests in the twenty-first century
Ambio (2019). - ISSN 0044-7447
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Logging damage and injured tree mortality in tropical forest management
Natural Resource Modeling (2019). - ISSN 0890-8575
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Cattle affect regeneration of the palm species Attalea princeps in a Bolivian forest–savanna mosaic
Biotropica 51 (2019)1. - ISSN 0006-3606 - p. 28 - 38.
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Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change
Global Change Biology 25 (2019)1. - ISSN 1354-1013 - p. 39 - 56.