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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 ๐ŸŒณ| forest herbs ๐ŸŒผ| global change drivers ๐Ÿ“ˆ | Drought ๐Ÿ‚ | Experimental & observational approaches ๐Ÿ”Ž .. more

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Environmental science 70%
Geography 18%
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Reposted by Teja Tscharntke, Ingolf Kรผhn, Simon L. Lewis , and 6 more

juliakoricheva.bsky.social
Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social ยท 20d
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

mixedforests.bsky.social
Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social ยท Sep 29
๐Ÿ—ž๏ธNew study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ

๐ŸŒณDiversity in resource use strategies promotes productivity across a global network of tree #diversity experiments?๐ŸŒฒ

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

fornalab.bsky.social
ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social ยท May 6
Eline Lorer defended very succesfully her PhD on global change effects on undersotrey phenology! Big congratulations Eline!! ๐Ÿฅ‚๐ŸŽ‰

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

jcsvenning.bsky.social
Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social ยท Apr 14
๐ŸŒฟ Our new study in @natplants.nature.com: Most European temperate forest plants are associated with semi-open, herbivore-shaped habitatsโ€”not closed-canopy #forests ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ”†๐ŸŒธ Highlights the need for trophic #rewilding in #conservation & need to avoid uniform dense #reforestation๐ŸŒฟ
๐Ÿ“„ 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, Rรฉmy Beugnon , and 1 more

mixedforests.bsky.social
Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social ยท Mar 31
Are you interested in #forest microclimate, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning? ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒก๏ธ

๐Ÿ—ž๏ธIn our new study we show: Tree diversity increases #forest temperature buffering๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ

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 6โ€‰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 Sangรผesaโ€Barreda, Haben Blondeel, Martin Ehbrecht

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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social ยท 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

corneliussenf.bsky.social
Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social ยท 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

fornalab.bsky.social
ForNaLab @fornalab.bsky.social ยท 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.

๐Ÿ“ธ by @habenblondeel.bsky.social

Reposted by Haben Blondeel

wildwoods.bsky.social
Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social ยท 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

xaviermorin.bsky.social
Xavier Morin @xaviermorin.bsky.social ยท Jan 6
New paper out! ๐ŸŒณ ๐ŸŒฒ (and this one is very special to me)
โžก๏ธ 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
More โฌ‡๏ธ 1/7

Reposted by Pieter De Frenne, Paul Kardol, Rubรฉn G. Mateo , and 3 more

jonlen.bsky.social
Jonathan Lenoir ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒด @jonlen.bsky.social ยท Dec 17
Everything you ever wanted to know to get started on #microclimate is compiled there โฌ‡๏ธ in ๐Ÿ”Ÿ guidelines ๐Ÿค“ Unpack each 1๏ธโƒฃ to select the right variable, the most relevant spatiotemporal scale, the best sampling design & to tailor your analyses to your study question

๐Ÿงช๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ

shorturl.at/VYP8f

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

glenpeters.bsky.social
Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social ยท 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...

Reposted by Haben Blondeel

hans-verbeeck.bsky.social
Hans Verbeeck @hans-verbeeck.bsky.social ยท Nov 24
We have an open Postdoc position (vegetation modeller) at #Q_ForestLab in the framework AFRO-CARDS project: โ€œAfrican Forest RecOvery and CArbon Dynamics monitoring through Remote Sensingโ€. 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 Franรงa, Haben Blondeel , and 2 more

Reposted by Haben Blondeel

joguillemot.bsky.social
Joannรจs Guillemot @joguillemot.bsky.social ยท Nov 22
๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒฒNew comment just published in Tree Physiology, highlighting the work of @sharathpaligi.bsky.social! ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒฒ

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, Clรฉlia Sirami, Haben Blondeel

sarammendes.bsky.social
Sara Mendes @sarammendes.bsky.social ยท Nov 14
๐Ÿ”ฅ Paper in Science๐Ÿ”ฅ

We found that at least a third of the seed dispersers and interactions face potential extinction, in Europe ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿฆโ€โฌ›๐Ÿฆ†๐ŸŒ

#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