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A Compact Laboratory Spectro-Goniometer (CLabSpeG) to Assess the BRDF of Materials. Presentation, Calibration and Implementation on Fagus sylvatica L. Leaves

scientific article published on 7 September 2007

A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests

article

A time series processing tool to extract climate-driven interannual vegetation dynamics using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD)

article

Above‐ and below‐ground complementarity rather than selection drive tree diversity–productivity relationships in European forests

scientific article published on 10 May 2021

Actor-based identification of deforestation drivers paves the road to effective REDD+ in DR Congo

scientific article published in December 2016

Adaptation of forest management to climate change as perceived by forest owners and managers in Belgium

article

Are forest disturbances amplifying or canceling out climate change-induced productivity changes in European forests?

scientific article published on March 2017

Assessing the sustainability of forest management: an application of multi-criteria decision analysis to community forests in northern Ethiopia

scientific article published on 4 March 2010

Assessment of land use impact on water-related ecosystem services capturing the integrated terrestrial-aquatic system.

scientific article published in October 2009

Between biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management – A multidisciplinary assessment of the emblematic Białowieża Forest case

scientific article published in August 2020

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context

scientific article

Biodiversity as insurance for sapling survival in experimental tree plantations

scientific article published in 2016

Biodiversity conservation in the sacred groves of north-west Ethiopia: diversity and community structure of woody species

scientific article published in 2020

Bioenergy production and sustainable development: science base for policymaking remains limited

scientific article

Biomass of invasive plant species as a potential feedstock for bioenergy production

article

Biotic and abiotic drivers of soil microbial functions across tree diversity experiments

preprint

Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

scientific article

Biotic predictors complement models of bat and bird responses to climate and tree diversity in European forests

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Both forest fragmentation and coffee cultivation negatively affect epiphytic orchid diversity in Ethiopian moist evergreen Afromontane forests

article by Kitessa Hundera et al published March 2013 in Biological Conservation

Can complementarity in water use help to explain diversity-productivity relationships in experimental grassland plots?

scientific article published on May 2008

Carbon and Water Footprints and Energy Use of Greenhouse Tomato Production in Northern Italy

article

Carbon footprint of science: More than flying

article

Carbon sequestration and environmental effects of afforestation with Pinus radiata D. Don in the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published in 2007

Climate affects neighbour‐induced changes in leaf chemical defences and tree diversity–herbivory relationships

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Climatic conditions, not above- and belowground resource availability and uptake capacity, mediate tree diversity effects on productivity and stability

scientific article published on 22 December 2021

Commentary: We lack evidence to callJatrophainvasive

article

Conservation of the Ethiopian church forests: Threats, opportunities and implications for their management

scientific article

Conserving Open Natural Pollination Safeguards Jatropha Oil Yield and Oil Quality

Conserving wild Arabica coffee: Emerging threats and opportunities

article by Raf Aerts et al published January 2017 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealised potential for forest multifunctionality

scientific article

Contrasting Cloud Forest Restoration Potential Between Plantations of Different Exotic Tree Species

article

Contribution of woody habitat islands to the conservation of birds and their potential ecosystem services in an extensive Colombian rangeland

scholarly article by Juan C. Muñoz et al published July 2013 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations

scientific article

Correction to Multilayered Modeling of Particulate Matter Removal by a Growing Forest over Time, From Plant Surface Deposition to Washoff via Rainfall

scientific article

Correction: Schelfhout, S.; et al. Tree Species Identity Shapes Earthworm Communities. Forests 2017, 8, 85

Cost-benefit analysis of soil and water conservation measure: The case of exclosures in northern Ethiopia

article

Differential environmental response of plant functional types in hedgerow habitats

article

Disentangling how management affects biomass stock and productivity of tropical secondary forests fallows

Diversity for Restoration (D4R): Guiding the selection of tree species and seed sources for climate‐resilient restoration of tropical forest landscapes

scientific article published on 10 November 2021

Do Tourists’ Preferences Match the Host Community’s Initiatives? A Study of Sustainable Tourism in One of Africa’s Oldest Conservation Areas

scientific article published on 12 November 2018

Drivers of earthworm incidence and abundance across European forests

scholarly article by Hans De Wandeler et al published August 2016 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

EFO-LCI: A New Life Cycle Inventory Database of Forestry Operations in Europe

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

scientific article published in July 2018

Earthworm biomass and species diversity in windthrow sites of a temperate lowland forest

article

Earthworm biomass as additional information for risk assessment of heavy metal biomagnification: a case study for dredged sediment-derived soils and polluted floodplain soils

scientific article published on 01 June 2004

Ecosystem Thermal Buffer Capacity as an Indicator of the Restoration Status of Protected Areas in the Northern Ethiopian Highlands

scientific article published in 2004

Ecosystem services of mixed species forest stands and monocultures: comparing practitioners' and scientists' perceptions with formal scientific knowledge

article

Effect of farming system and yield in the life cycle assessment of Jatropha-based bioenergy in Mali

article

Effects of accession, spacing and pruning management on in-situ leaf litter decomposition of Jatropha curcas L. in Zambia

Effects of biodiversity loss and restoration scenarios on tree-related ecosystem services

scholarly article by Meron Tekalign et al published January 2017 in International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management

Effects of coffee management intensity on composition, structure, and regeneration status of ethiopian moist evergreen afromontane forests

scientific article

Effects of forest management on mating patterns, pollen flow and intergenerational transfer of genetic diversity in wild Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.) from Afromontane rainforests

scholarly article by Gezahegn Berecha et al published 14 April 2014 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Effects of landscape structure on the invasive spread of black cherry Prunus serotina in an agricultural landscape in Flanders, Belgium

article

Effects of pioneer shrubs on the recruitment of the fleshy-fruited tree Olea europaea ssp. cuspidata in Afromontane savanna

Effects of pioneer shrubs on the recruitment of the fleshy-fruited tree Olea europaea ssp. cuspidata in Afromontane savanna

Elevation and exposition rather than soil types determine communities and site suitability in Mediterranean mountain forests of southern Anatolia, Turkey

article published in 2007

Energy potential for combustion and anaerobic digestion of biomass from low-input high-diversity systems in conservation areas

Environmental impact assessment and monetary ecosystem service valuation of an ecosystem under different future environmental change and management scenarios; a case study of a Scots pine forest

scientific article

Erratum to: Adaptation of forest management to climate change as perceived by forest owners and managers in Belgium

article

Establishment and management of woody seedlings in gullies in a semi-arid environment (Tigray, Ethiopia)

scholarly article by Bert Reubens et al published 21 July 2009 in Plant and Soil

Euphorbia abyssinica latex promotes rooting of Boswellia cuttings

Exergy: its potential and limitations in environmental science and technology

scientific article published on April 2008

Factors affecting plant species composition of hedgerows: relative importance and hierarchy

article

Floral display and effects of natural and artificial pollination on fruiting and seed yield of the tropical biofuel cropJatropha curcasL

Foliar concentrations of volunteer willows growing on polluted sediment-derived sites versus sites with baseline contamination levels

scientific article published on 9 March 2004

Forest cover loss and recovery in an East African remnant forest area: Understanding its context and drivers for conservation and sustainable ecosystem service provision

scientific article published in September 2018

Forest herbs show species-specific responses to variation in light regime on sites with contrasting soil acidity: An experiment mimicking forest conversion scenarios

article

Forest structure and composition alleviate human thermal stress

scientific article published on 19 September 2022

Fragmentation and management of Ethiopian moist evergreen forest drive compositional shifts of insect communities visiting wild Arabica coffee flowers

scientific article

Genetic variation and risks of introgression in the wild Coffea arabica gene pool in south-western Ethiopian montane rainforests

scientific article published on 18 July 2012

Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Global distribution of earthworm diversity

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Global mapping of Jatropha curcas yield based on response of fitness to present and future climate

scientific article

Greenhouse gas emission timing in life cycle assessment and the global warming potential of perennial energy crops

article

Growth responses of West-Mediterranean Pinus nigra to climate change are modulated by competition and productivity: Past trends and future perspectives

article

Gully erosion in South Eastern Tanzania: spatial distribution and topographic thresholds

scholarly article by Wouter M. J. Achten et al published 1 June 2008 in Annals of Geomorphology

Heavy metals in dredged sediment-derived soils along the rivers Scheldt and Leie: geographical distribution, bioavailability and ecosystem effects.

scientific article published in January 2002

Hierarchical land classification and mapping of Aglasun forest ecosystems in the Mediterranean region, Turkey

scientific article published on May 2013

Historical deforestation patterns and the conservation value of church forests in the northern Ethiopian highlands

Household livelihood strategies and forest dependence in the highlands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

scholarly article by Bedru Babulo et al published September 2008 in Agricultural Systems

How do trees respond to species mixing in experimental compared to observational studies?

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

Humus Form Development during Forest Restoration in Exclosures of the Tigray Highlands, Northern Ethiopia

article

Hydrological modelling of ungauged catchments in the Scheldt river basin

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Identifying the tree species compositions that maximize ecosystem functioning in European forests

article

Impact of avian frugivores on dispersal and recruitment of the invasive Prunus serotina in an agricultural landscape

Impact of black cherry on pedunculate oak vitality in mixed forests: Balancing benefits and concerns

scientific article published in 2023

Impact of land-use change to Jatropha bioenergy plantations on biomass and soil carbon stocks: a field study in Mali

Impact of membership in frankincense cooperative firms on rural income and poverty in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

scholarly article by Mesfin Tilahun et al published January 2016 in Forest Policy and Economics

In situ persistence of African wild olive and forest restoration in degraded semiarid savanna

Initial Effects of Fertilization and Canopy Management on Flowering and Seed and Oil Yields of Jatropha curcas L. in Malawi

Institutional factors and opportunities for adapting European forest management to climate change

scholarly article by Laura Bouriaud et al published 22 August 2015 in Regional Environmental Change

Insufficient Evidence of Jatropha curcas L. Invasiveness: Experimental Observations in Burkina Faso, West Africa

article

Integrating mitigation and adaptation into development: the case ofJatropha curcasin sub-Saharan Africa

Invasiveness risk of biofuel crops usingJatropha curcasL. as a model species

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Invasiveness risk of the tropical biofuel cropJatropha curcasL. into adjacent land use systems: from the rumors to the experimental facts

Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity-ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

scientific article

Jatropha biodiesel fueling sustainability?

scientific article (publication date: 2007)

Land rehabilitation and the conservation of birds in a degraded Afromontane landscape in northern Ethiopia

article

Leaf isotopes reveal tree diversity effects on the functional responses to the pan‐European 2018 summer drought

scientific article published on 27 June 2024

Life Cycle Inventory Analysis of Prospective Insect Based Feed Production in West Africa

article by Martin Roffeis et al published 22 September 2017 in Sustainability

Life cycle assessment of Jatropha biodiesel as transportation fuel in rural India

article by Wouter Achten et al published December 2010 in Applied Energy

Life cycle assessment of a palm oil system with simultaneous production of biodiesel and cooking oil in Cameroon

scientific article published in June 2010

Litter production and organic matter accumulation in exclosures of the Tigray highlands, Ethiopia

article

Litter quality and the law of the most limiting: Opportunities for restoring nutrient cycles in acidified forest soils

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Litter share and clay content determine soil restoration effects of rich litter tree species in forests on acidified sandy soils

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Long-term growth changes of common beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) are less pronounced on highly productive sites

scientific article published on 07 November 2013

Managing Mediterranean Forests for Multiple Ecosystem Services: Research Progress and Knowledge Gaps

scientific article published on 07 April 2022

Mapping tree species vulnerability to multiple threats as a guide to restoration and conservation of tropical dry forests

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Meta-analysis of susceptibility of woody plants to loss of genetic diversity through habitat fragmentation

scientific article published in November 2011

Modelling carbon stocks and fluxes in the wood product sector: a comparative review

scientific article

Multilayered modeling of particulate matter removal by a growing forest over time, from plant surface deposition to washoff via rainfall

scientific article published on 25 August 2014

Multipurpose conversion management of Scots pine towards mixed oak–birch stands—A long-term simulation approach

article by Vincent Kint et al published January 2009 in Forest Ecology and Management

Nitrogen saturation and net ecosystem production

scientific article published in February 2008

Opportunities and Constraints of Promoting New Tree Crops—Lessons Learned from Jatropha

PRELIMINARY BASELINE SURVEY OF AVIFAUNAL DIVERSITY IN JIMMA ZONE, SOUTH-WESTERN ETHIOPIA

PRELIMINARY BASELINE SURVEY OF AVIFAUNAL DIVERSITY IN JIMMA ZONE, SOUTH-WESTERN ETHIOPIA

scholarly article by Haile Yineger et al published 29 January 2010 in Nature Precedings

Patterns of forest composition and their long term environmental drivers in the tropical dry forest transition zone of southern Africa

article

Plant distribution-altitude and landform relationships in karstic sinkholes of Mediterranean region of Turkey

scientific article published in January 2010

Positive feedback loop between earthworms, humus form and soil pH reinforces earthworm abundance in European forests

scientific article published in 2020

Potential tree species extinction, colonization and recruitment in Afromontane forest relicts

article

Predictive Quality of Pedotransfer Functions for Estimating Bulk Density of Forest Soils

article

Quantification and Prediction of Biomass Yield of Temperate Low-Input High-Diversity Ecosystems

Quantifying Climate Change Effects on Future Forest Biomass Availability Using Yield Tables Improved by Mechanistic Scaling

scientific article published in 2022

Quantifying climate change effects on future forest biomass availability using yield tables improved by mechanistic scaling

scientific article published on 13 April 2022

Quantifying the environmental impact of an integrated human/industrial-natural system using life cycle assessment; a case study on a forest and wood processing chain

scientific article

Reconciling Conflicting Paradigms of Biodiversity Conservation: Human Intervention and Rewilding

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Recruitment credit cannot compensate for extinction debt in a degraded dry Afromontane forest

scientific article published in 2022

Restoration of Dry Afromontane Forest Using Pioneer Shrubs as Nurse-Plants for Olea europaea ssp. cuspidata

article

Restoring dry Afromontane forest using bird and nurse plant effects: Direct sowing of Olea europaea ssp. cuspidata seeds

article

Review of methods for in situ leaf area index determination

article

Runoff curve numbers for steep hillslopes with natural vegetation in semi-arid tropical highlands, northern Ethiopia

scholarly article by Katrien Descheemaeker et al published 30 September 2008 in Hydrological Processes

Runoff on slopes with restoring vegetation: A case study from the Tigray highlands, Ethiopia

scholarly article by Katrien Descheemaeker et al published November 2006 in Journal of Hydrology

Scaling from stand to landscape scale of climate change mitigation by afforestation and forest management: a modeling approach

scientific article published in 2007

Sediment deposition and pedogenesis in exclosures in the Tigray highlands, Ethiopia

scholarly article by Katrien Descheemaeker et al published June 2006 in Geoderma

Semi-forest coffee cultivation and the conservation of Ethiopian Afromontane rainforest fragments

scholarly article by Raf Aerts et al published March 2011 in Forest Ecology and Management

Should we Leave Nature Unattended or Assist through Enrichment to Foster Climate Change Mitigation? Exclosure Management in the Highlands of Ethiopia

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Site properties for Crimean juniper (Juniperus excelsa) in semi-natural forests of south western Anatolia, Turkey

scientific article published in January 2010

Site requirements of the endangered rosewood Dalbergia oliveri in a tropical deciduous forest in northern Thailand

scholarly article by Raf Aerts et al published December 2009 in Forest Ecology and Management

Spatial congruence among indicators of recovery completeness in a Mediterranean forest landscape: Implications for planning large-scale restoration

article

Spatial optimization of Jatropha based electricity value chains including the effect of emissions from land use change

Species composition and diversity of small Afromontane forest fragments in northern Ethiopia

article

Stocks and fluxes of soil organic carbon for landscape units in Belgium derived from heterogeneous data sets for 1990 and 2000

scholarly article

Sunken roads as habitats for forest plant species in a dynamic agricultural landscape: effects of age and isolation

article

Supervised Classification of Tree Cover Classes in the Complex Mosaic Landscape of Eastern Rwanda

scientific article published in 2023

Surface runoff and seed trapping efficiency of shrubs in a regenerating semiarid woodland in northern Ethiopia

scholarly article by Raf Aerts et al published January 2006 in CATENA

Sustainability in Development Cooperation: Preliminary Findings on the Carbon Footprint of Development Aid Organizations

article

Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments

Temporal changes in forest plant communities at different site types

article

Temporalis, a generic method and tool for dynamic Life Cycle Assessment

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

The bioenergy potential of Natura 2000 - a synergy between climate change mitigation and biodiversity protection

scientific article published in 2016

The bioenergy potential of conservation areas and roadsides for biogas in an urbanized region

The economic contribution of forest resource use to rural livelihoods in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

scholarly article by Bedru Babulo et al published March 2009 in Forest Policy and Economics

The economics and greenhouse gas balance of land conversion toJatropha: the case of Tanzania

scholarly article by Wouter M. J. Achten et al published 4 June 2014 in GCB Bioenergy

The effect of drought stress on heterozygosity-fitness correlations in pedunculate oak (Quercus robur).

scientific article

The effect of increasing lifespan and recycling rate on carbon storage in wood products from theoretical model to application for the European wood sector

scientific article published on 09 September 2016

The effect of mechanical stimulation on root and shoot development of young containerised Quercus robur and Robinia pseudoacacia trees

article

The potential of small exclosures in assisting regeneration of coffee shade trees in South-Western Ethiopian coffee forests

article by Kitessa Hundera et al published 7 January 2015 in African Journal of Ecology

The value of local ecological knowledge to guide tree species selection in tropical dry forest restoration

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

Towards domestication ofJatropha curcas

Transmission of genetic variation from the adult generation to naturally established seedling cohorts in small forest stands of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.)

article

Tree Species Identity Shapes Earthworm Communities

article

Tree density and population size affect pollen flow and mating patterns in small fragmented forest stands of pedunculate oak ( Quercus robur L.)

scientific article published in 2014

Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments

scientific article published on 21 February 2022

Tree diversity mitigates defoliation after a drought-induced tipping point

scientific article published on 21 June 2018

Tree identity rather than tree diversity drives earthworm communities in European forests

scholarly article by Hans De Wandeler et al published March 2018 in Pedobiologia

Tree species selection for land rehabilitation in Ethiopia: from fragmented knowledge to an integrated multi-criteria decision approach

article

Tree species traits cause divergence in soil acidification during four decades of postagricultural forest development

article

Trees in a human-modified tropical landscape: Species and trait composition and potential ecosystem services

article

Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world ⬇️

Trick or treat? Pollinator attraction in <i>Vanilla pompona</i> (Orchidaceae)

scientific article published in 2021

Understorey vegetation shifts following the conversion of temperate deciduous forest to spruce plantation

scientific article published in 2013

Who benefits from energy policy incentives? The case of jatropha adoption by smallholders in Mexico

Within-field spatial distribution of earthworm populations related to species interactions and soil apparent electrical conductivity

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Woody plant communities of isolated Afromontane cloud forests in Taita Hills, Kenya

article

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