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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Frankincense in peril
Nature Sustainability (2019). - ISSN 2398-9629
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Patterns of nitrogen-fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America
Journal of Ecology (2019). - ISSN 0022-0477
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Author Correction: Rapid de novo assembly of the European eel genome from nanopore sequencing reads : Rapid de novo assembly of the European eel genome from nanopore sequencing reads (Scientific Reports, (2017), 7, 1, (7213), 10.1038/s41598-017-07650-6)
Scientific Reports 9 (2019). - ISSN 2045-2322
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Multi-variable approach pinpoints origin of oak wood with higher precision
Journal of Biogeography 46 (2019)6. - ISSN 0305-0270 - p. 1163 - 1177.
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Soil erosion as a resilience drain in disturbed tropical forests
Plant and Soil (2019). - ISSN 0032-079X