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Fingerprint of wood can help fight illegal trade
April 20, 2023 - The chemical composition of tropical timber, for example, used for bridges or in window frames, reveals where the trees were growing. This can help to... -
Trees shrink during heatwaves
January 20, 2022 - While people tend to escape the sun during hot summers under the tree canopy in parks and forests, trees are fully exposed. They have to fight the... -
Excellent Education Awards for FEM
June 25, 2021 - Our course FEM22306, Forest Resources, coordinated by Ute Sass-Klaassen, and supported by many FEM staff members with lectures and practicals won one... -
Window frame spares tropical forest
February 15, 2021 - (article by Roelof Kleis, Resource online, Science, 09.02.2021; photo by WEBO) No tropical forests felled for this window frame: with wood and help... -
DNA of centuries-old timber reveals its origin
January 28, 2021 - What is the origin of archeological oak timber? Researchers of three European labs were able to extract and analyze DNA from ancient wood (aDNA) to... -
Scots pine and Douglas-fir did not grow because of drought 2018: Bas Lerink at NOS News about the impact
August 13, 2019 - Because of the drought in 2018, growth of Scots pine and Douglas-fir nearly halted in the Netherlands. Researcher Bas reveals in the news on Dutch... -
The sound of 2018 – how a poplar perceived the heatwave in 2018
March 18, 2019 - Being immobile does not mean that organisms are not responsive to external conditions. At the celebration of the 101st Dies Natalis of Wageningen... -
Genetic properties help identify illegally traded tropical hardwood
March 1, 2018 - Around 30-90 percent of all tropical hardwood is logged illegally. Checks on the origin of wood, however thorough, are not particularly effective... -
The turbo trees of the future
February 22, 2018 - In the recently rejuvenated Populetum near the Dutch town of Zeewolde grows what may well be the poplar of the future. The only things is, Wageningen... -
International Tree-Ring workshop at Wageningen University
February 15, 2018