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Haben Blondeel
@habenblondeel.bsky.social
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Postdoc @UGent ForNaLab

Interested in forest ecology and management in a changing world.
Biodiversity and landscape enthusiast.

Tree diversity 🌳| forest herbs 🌼| global change drivers 📈 | Drought 🍂 | Experimental & observational approaches 🔎 .. more

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Environmental science 70%
Geography 18%
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Lena Sachsenmaier @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social · Nov 14
Over 2,600🌳 #trees during the 2018–2020 #drought :
• Traits disadvantageous in normal years became beneficial under drought
• Trees grew better with neighbours whose hydro-functional traits differed from their own
🗞️Paper out now @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Hydro‐Functional Traits and Their Dissimilarity to the Neighbourhood Buffer Tree Growth Against the 2018–2020 Central European Drought
Climate change is putting forests at risk. Our research shows that a tree's water-use strategy largely determines its growth across years: whereas one strategy performs better in normal years, the ot....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Teja Tscharntke, Ingolf Kühn, Simon L. Lewis , and 6 more

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Oct 21
PhD applications are now open @treesdla.bsky.social for 2026 intake. Have a look at a project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators that we advertise with @philstevenson.bsky.social. Do apply/get in touch if you are interested! www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, John Parker, Haben Blondeel

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Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social · Sep 29
🗞️New study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🗞️

🌳Diversity in resource use strategies promotes productivity across a global network of tree #diversity experiments?🌲

Read our new study led by Joel Jensen together with #TreeDivNet here:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Diversity in Resource Use Strategies Promotes Productivity in Young Planted Tree Species Mixtures
By analyzing data from over 83,000 trees in 21 experiments across five continents, we found that forests with more species were more productive and had more stable growth. Productivity was driven mai....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Haben Blondeel, Stephanie Schelfhout

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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · May 6
Eline Lorer defended very succesfully her PhD on global change effects on undersotrey phenology! Big congratulations Eline!! 🥂🎉

Reposted by Nicolas Gross, Haben Blondeel, Stephanie Schelfhout , and 2 more

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Apr 14
🌿 Our new study in @natplants.nature.com: Most European temperate forest plants are associated with semi-open, herbivore-shaped habitats—not closed-canopy #forests 🐎🌳🔆🌸 Highlights the need for trophic #rewilding in #conservation & need to avoid uniform dense #reforestation🌿
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Temperate forest plants are associated with heterogeneous semi-open canopy conditions shaped by large herbivores - Nature Plants
Temperate forest plants favour heterogeneous semi-open woodlands associated with high herbivore densities, rather than uniform closed-canopy forests. Herbivore loss is therefore a probable driver of e...
doi.org

Reposted by John Parker, Haben Blondeel, Rémy Beugnon , and 1 more

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Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social · Mar 31
Are you interested in #forest microclimate, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning? 🌲🌳🌡️

🗞️In our new study we show: Tree diversity increases #forest temperature buffering🗞️

doi.org/10.1111/ele....

/w @remybeugnon.bsky.social, @uni-freiburg.de, @unileipzig.bsky.social, @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social
Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity
Making use of 6 years of microclimate measurements in a large-scale tree diversity experiment covering a species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species, we demonstrate that tree species ....
doi.org

Reposted by Gabriel Sangüesa‐Barreda, Haben Blondeel, Martin Ehbrecht

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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · Feb 23
Trees might profit from the reduced foliage area, allowing them to stabilize their #water relations in a #drying #climate: Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population - Scientific Reports
Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population
www.nature.com

Reposted by He Yin, Haben Blondeel, Maximilian Hanusch

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · Feb 2
Six years in the making and finally published! Our viewpoint on how to improve tree mortality monitoring. With in-depth discussion on how to improve ground-based monitoring, integration of ground-based monitoring with remote sensing and modelling, and fair and collaborative science: lnkd.in/dJgSRQHt

Reposted by Pieter De Frenne, Haben Blondeel, Karen De Pauw

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ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social · Jan 13
Field experiments in natural areas are crucial to study environmental change but can pose risks to these ecosystems and their species. To minimize impacts, we propose a careful framework in NatuurFocus to balance potential damage against scientific value.

📸 by @habenblondeel.bsky.social

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · Jan 7
Interested in seeing how forests & other ecosystems are being lost to human activity in real time, either locally or globally? Check out new DIST-ALERT system on Global Forest Watch, which allows monitoring of vegetation disturbance events as they happen. www.globalforestwatch.org/blog/data-an...
Disturbance Alerts for All Vegetation Globally Now on GFW
A new global alert system on GFW, DIST-ALERT, provides alerts within forests globally as well where other ecosystems are disturbed.
www.globalforestwatch.org

Reposted by John Parker, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Haben Blondeel , and 7 more

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Xavier Morin @xaviermorin.bsky.social · Jan 6
New paper out! 🌳 🌲 (and this one is very special to me)
➡️ Diversity boosts forest productivity also (and especially?) through its effect on the number of trees within forests
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@journalofecology.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social
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Reposted by Pieter De Frenne, Paul Kardol, Rubén G. Mateo , and 3 more

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · Dec 17
Everything you ever wanted to know to get started on #microclimate is compiled there ⬇️ in 🔟 guidelines 🤓 Unpack each 1️⃣ to select the right variable, the most relevant spatiotemporal scale, the best sampling design & to tailor your analyses to your study question

🧪🌐🍁

shorturl.at/VYP8f

Reposted by Stefan C. Dekker, Haben Blondeel, Xavier De Lamo

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Nov 29
Where is most of the land use changes happening:
* Deforestation: Tropics
* Af/reforestation: China, Europe, US. Noting this also includes land abandonment (particularly Eastern Europe)

essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

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Hans Verbeeck @hans-verbeeck.bsky.social · Nov 24
We have an open Postdoc position (vegetation modeller) at #Q_ForestLab in the framework AFRO-CARDS project: “African Forest RecOvery and CArbon Dynamics monitoring through Remote Sensing”. Deadline: 1st of December 2024.
jobs.ugent.be/job-invite/2...
#BELSPO #BelgianEO #FBWUGent
Postdoc position (vegetation modeller)
Postdoc position (vegetation modeller)
jobs.ugent.be

Reposted by Jonathan A. Myers, Filipe França, Haben Blondeel , and 2 more

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Joannès Guillemot @joguillemot.bsky.social · Nov 22
🌲🌲New comment just published in Tree Physiology, highlighting the work of @sharathpaligi.bsky.social! 🌳🌲

With Nicolas Martin @martin-stpaul.bsky.social, we discuss this great work to argue that tree growth strategies mediate drought resistance in species-diverse forests.

Reposted by Ben L. Phillips, Clélia Sirami, Haben Blondeel

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Sara Mendes @sarammendes.bsky.social · Nov 14
🔥 Paper in Science🔥

We found that at least a third of the seed dispersers and interactions face potential extinction, in Europe 🌿🌳🐦‍⬛🦆🌍

#seeddispersal

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Evidence of a European seed dispersal crisis
Seed dispersal is crucial for ecosystem persistence, especially in fragmented landscapes, such as those common in Europe. Ongoing defaunation might compromise effective seed dispersal, but the conserv...
www.science.org