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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Europe's forests increasingly under pressure from climate-driven disturbances
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More than 2 million photos provide important insight into mammal behavior
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Call for action for supporting forest restoration around the globe
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Accelerating land restoration by building on farmers’ experiences. Lessons from African drylands
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Forest protection key for reliable rainfall
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Latest PhD dissertations
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Understanding rangeland management and the recovery of ecosystem services in tropical agro-forest landscapes
Wageningen University. Promotor(en): T.W. Kuyper; M. Peña Claros, co-promotor(en): M.M. Pulleman; M.E. Gavito Pardo. - Wageningen : Wageningen University - ISBN 9789464475302 - p. -
“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.
Latest publications
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Influence of climate on seasonal and diurnal stem radius variations in Picea meyeri during cold seasons
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 333 (2023). - ISSN 0168-1923 -
Three billion new trees in the EU’s biodiversity strategy : low ambition, but better environmental outcomes?
Environmental Research Letters 18 (2023)3. - ISSN 1748-9318 -
Drivers of tree demographic processes in forest fragments of the Brazilian Atlantic forest
Forest Ecology and Management 534 (2023). - ISSN 0378-1127 - 14 p. -
Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy : A quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology
Scientific Reports 13 (2023)1. - ISSN 2045-2322 - 11 p. -
Simulating cocoa production : A review of modelling approaches and gaps
Agricultural Systems 206 (2023). - ISSN 0308-521X - 15 p.