Forest dynamics and climate change
11 September 2018

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.

Related
- An integrative framework to investigate species responses to climate change: biogeography and ecology of relict trees in the Mediterranean
- The Strait of Gibraltar as a melting pot for plant biodiversity
- Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies
- Asymmetry in marginal population performance foreshadows widespread species range shifts
- Ecology and biogeography of laurel forests
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.
25 October 2015
2 min read
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.
21 February 2013
1 min read
Publications
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 …
De Frenne P, Zellweger F, Rodriguez-Sanchez F, Scheffers BR, Hylander K, Luoto M, Vellend M, Verheyen K, Lenoir J
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 …
De Frenne P, Rodríguez-Sánchez F, De Schrijver A, Coomes DA, Hermy M, Vangansbeke P, Verheyen K
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 …
Tanner EVT, Rodríguez-Sánchez F, Healey JR, Holdaway RB, Bellingham PJ
Thermophilization estimation is robust to the scale of species distribution data
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De Frenne P, Rodríguez-Sánchez F, Bernhardt-Romermann M, Brown CD, Eriksson O, Hermy M, Mitchell FJG, Petřík P, Van Calster H, Vellend M, Verheyen K
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 …
De Frenne P, Rodríguez-Sánchez F, Coomes DA, Baeten L, Verstraeten G, Vellend M, Bernhardt-Romermann M, Brown CD, Brunet J, Cornelis J, Decocq GM, Dierschke H, Eriksson O, Gilliam FS, Hedl R, Heinken T, Hermy M, Hommel P, Jenkins MA, Kelly DL, Kirby KJ, Mitchell FJG, Naaf T, Newman M, Peterken G, Petrik P, Schultz J, Sonnier G, Van Calster H, Waller DM, Walther GR, White PS, Woods KD, Wulf M, Graae BJ, Verheyen K
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 …
De Frenne P, Graae BJ, Rodríguez-Sánchez F, Kolb A, Chabrerie O, Decocq G, De Kort H, De Schrijver A, Diekmann M, Eriksson O, Gruwez R, Hermy M, Lenoir J, Plue J, Coomes DA & Verheyen K
Uncertainty in thermal tolerances and climatic debt
The inherent variability of species’ thermal tolerances and the uncertainty in its estimation profoundly affect inferences about …
Rodríguez-Sánchez F, De Frenne P, Hampe A
Talks
Forest dynamics and climate change: a multiscale approach
30 May 2019
Berlin, Germany