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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Inauguration Marielos Peña Claros: Managing tropical forest to conserve them
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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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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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Converting tropical forests to agriculture increases fire risk by fourfold
Environmental Research Letters 17 (2022)10. - ISSN 1748-9318 -
Growth resilience of conifer species decreases with early, long-lasting and intense droughts but cannot be explained by hydraulic traits
Journal of Ecology 110 (2022)9. - ISSN 0022-0477 - p. 2088 - 2104. -
Incorporating belowground traits: avenues towards a whole-tree perspective on performance
Oikos (2022). - ISSN 0030-1299 -
Author Correction : Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration (Nature, (2020), 586, 7831, (724-729), 10.1038/s41586-020-2784-9)
Nature 609 (2022)7926. - ISSN 0028-0836 -
Emerging stability of forest productivity by mixing two species buffers temperature destabilizing effect
Journal of Applied Ecology (2022). - ISSN 0021-8901 - p. 1 - 12.