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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Latest publications
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Quantifying in situ phenotypic variability in the hydraulic properties of four tree species across their distribution range in Europe
PLoS One 13 (2018)5. - ISSN 1932-6203
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EFO-LCI
Environmental Management 61 (2018)6. - ISSN 0364-152X - p. 1031 - 1047.
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Tree differences in primary and secondary growth drive convergent scaling in leaf area to sapwood area across Europe
New Phytologist (2018). - ISSN 0028-646X
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Does sex matter? Gender-specificity and its influence on site-chronologies in the common dioecious shrub Juniperus communis
Dendrochronologia 49 (2018). - ISSN 1125-7865 - p. 118 - 126.
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Water availability as driver of birch mortality in Hustai National Park, Mongolia
Dendrochronologia 49 (2018). - ISSN 1125-7865 - p. 127 - 133.