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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News
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Where the wild things are… Which tropical forest mammals occur where?
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Inaugural address Frank Sterck: Towards the future with climate smart forests
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Dietary fats, human nutrition and the environment: balance and sustainability
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Glasgow Forest Declaration needs new modes of data ownership
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Wageningen IPCC author: Agriculture and forestry play critical role in solving climate issue
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Latest PhD dissertations
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“I came here for the land to sustain me”: land-use change and smallholder decisions in a tropical agro-forest frontier
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): F.J.J.M. Bongers, co-promotor(en): G.M. Verschoor; Eduardo García Frapolli. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789464470512 - p. -
Plant species distribution along an elevational gradient in the Himalayas, Nepal : On drivers, mechanisms and the effects of climate change
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): L. Poorter; F.J. Sterck, co-promotor(en): N. Raes. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463439343 - p. -
Conifer tree species differ in traits, growth, and drought resilience
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): L. Poorter; F. Sterck. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463959773 - p.
Latest publications
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Ten simple rules for managing communications with a large number of coauthors
PLoS Computational Biology 18 (2022)6. - ISSN 1553-734X -
Occupancy winners in tropical protected forests: A pantropical analysis
Proceedings of the Royal Society. B: Biological Sciences 289 (2022)1978. - ISSN 0962-8452 -
Impacts of harvesting methods on nutrient removal in Dutch forests exposed to high-nitrogen deposition
Annals of Forest Science 79 (2022)1. - ISSN 1286-4560 -
The cocoa yield gap in Ghana: A quantification and an analysis of factors that could narrow the gap
Agricultural Systems 201 (2022). - ISSN 0308-521X -
Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests
Science Advances 8 (2022)26. - ISSN 2375-2548