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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Latest PhD dissertations
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The role of pioneer Mimosa species in secondary succession in Mexican tropical dry forest
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): F.J.J.M. Bongers, J.A. Meave del Castillo, M. Peña Claros - Wageningen: Wageningen University -
Functional ecology in tropical forest restoration
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): F.J.J.M. Bongers, M. Peña-Claros, co-promotor(en): P.H.S. Brancalion - Wageningen: Wageningen University -
Drivers and mechanisms of tropical secondary forest succession
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): Lourens Poorter, co-promotor(en): Masha T. van der Sande, Lucy Amissah - Wageningen: Wageningen University
Latest publications
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Landscape diversity promotes landscape functioning in North America
Communications Earth & Environment (2025), Volume: 6, Issue: 1 - ISSN 2662-4435 -
Landscape-level human disturbance results in loss and contraction of mammalian populations in tropical forests
PloS Biology (2025), Volume: 23, Issue: 2 - ISSN 1544-9173 -
Mining tailings severely impact plant communities in a rainforest watershed
Anthropocene (2025), Volume: 49 - ISSN 2213-3054 -
Canopy cover at the crown-scale best predicts spatial heterogeneity of soil moisture within a temperate Atlantic forest
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (2025), Volume: 363 - ISSN 0168-1923 -
Composition and Diversity of Understory and Canopy Species Vary Along a Logging Gradient in an African Semi-Deciduous Tropical Rainforest
Forests (2025), Volume: 16, Issue: 1 - ISSN 1999-4907