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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African tropical montane forests store more carbon than was thought
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Deforestation in the world's largest tropical island: what does the future hold?
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Excellent Education Awards for FEM
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International collaboration needed for new Russian forest code
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The ecological aspects of clearfelling at different scales in Dutch forests
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Latest PhD dissertations
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Realising the benefits of nature
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): F.J.J.M. Bongers; T.W. Kuyper, co-promotor(en): Luis E. García Barrios; Neptalí Ramírez Marcial. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463958554 - p. -
Ecosystem services provided by soils in a Mexican agro-forest landscape
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): L. Poorter; T.W. Kuyper, co-promotor(en): John Larsen. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463957502 - p. -
The ecology of a liana community in a SW Chinese rainforest: functional traits, dynamics, and distribution
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): L. Poorter, co-promotor(en): F.J. Sterck; J. Zhang. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789463957298 - p.
Latest publications
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Eighty-four per cent of all Amazonian arboreal plant individuals are useful to humans
PLoS ONE 16 (2021)10 October. - ISSN 1932-6203 -
Anatomical tree-ring chronologies and seasonal patterns of cambial dynamics are valuable indicators of tree performance of two oak species at the Atlantic-Mediterranean boundary
Dendrochronologia 70 (2021). - ISSN 1125-7865 -
Growth of 19 conifer species is highly sensitive to winter warming, spring frost and summer drought
Annals of Botany 128 (2021)5. - ISSN 0305-7364 - p. 545 - 557. -
Q-NET – a new scholarly network on quantitative wood anatomy
Dendrochronologia 70 (2021). - ISSN 1125-7865 -
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content
Global Change Biology (2021). - ISSN 1354-1013