Forest dynamics and climate change
I am generally interested in forest dynamics, particularly in a climate change context. This includes research on plant demography, life histories, interactions with animals (particularly mutualisms) and the environment.
Posts
New paper out in Nature Plants
We have a new paper out in Nature Plants:
De Frenne P, Rodríguez-Sánchez F, De Schrijver A, Coomes DA, Hermy M, Vangansbeke P & Verheyen K. 2015. Light accelerates plant responses to warming.
First citation to our letter in Nature Climate Change: can we use a simple indicator to assess community responses to climate?
Google Scholar informed me today that our commentary in Nature Climate Change about the complexities involved in assessing community responses to climate change just got its first citation, six months after being published.
Publications
Reciprocity and interaction effectiveness in generalised mutualisms among free-living species
Mutualistic interactions among free-living species generally involve weak links and highly asymmetric dependence among partners, yet …
Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery
The relationships that control seed production in trees are fundamental to understanding the evolution of forest species and their …
Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients
Lack of tree fecundity data across climatic gradients precludes the analysis of how seed supply contributes to global variation in …
Maintaining forest cover to enhance temperature buffering under future climate change
Forest canopies buffer macroclimatic temperature fluctuations. However, we do not know if and how the capacity of canopies to buffer …
ClimPlant: Realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys
Detailed knowledge on the climatic tolerances of species is crucial to understand, quantify and predict the impact of climate change on …
Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies
Macroclimate warming is often assumed to occur within forests despite the potential for tree cover to modify microclimates. Here, using …
Light accelerates plant responses to warming
Competition for light has profound effects on plant performance in virtually all terrestrial ecosystems. Nowhere is this more evident …
Long-term hurricane damage effects on tropical forest tree growth and mortality
Hurricane winds can have large impacts on forest structure and dynamics. To date, most evaluations of hurricane impacts have focused on …
Thermophilization estimation is robust to the scale of species distribution data
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Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming
Recent global warming is acting across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems to favor species adapted to warmer conditions …
Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature
Macroclimatic variation along latitudinal gradients provides an excellent natural laboratory to investigate the role of temperature and …
Uncertainty in thermal tolerances and climatic debt
The inherent variability of species’ thermal tolerances and the uncertainty in its estimation profoundly affect inferences about …
