Projects
The Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group leads or is contributes to many exciting research projects around the world.
This page lists only a selection of ongoing projects.
Ongoing Projects
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Ecophysiology and nutrition of cacoa
The immediate environment where cocoa trees are grown has an direct impact on how the crop performs during each development stage and each season. Due... -
Mobilizing and monitoring climate positive efforts in forests, forest sector, bioenergy sector and newly evolving bioeconomy sectors
Forest potential in the climate policy framework remains underutilized and significantly under-mobilized. Questions about the relative uncertainty... -
Pruning in Cocoa
We aim understand and quantify cocoa response to pruning in relation to shading and to design optimal pruning practices tailored for the specific... -
Resilience of tropical secondary forests
Secondary tropical forests cover large areas and have great potential to recover biodiversity and ecosystem functions. The key challenge is to... -
Optimizing thinning for quality timber
This study aims to investigate the growth response of trees to various degrees of crown liberation as well as the effect of such treatment on the... -
LOGLIFE
LOGLIFE is a long-term common garden experiment with reciprocal exchange of coarse dead wood of multiple tree species, all incubated in each of two... -
Decision Making and Uncertainty: Potential of Scenario Planning in Forest Management in the Netherlands
The objective of this project consists of two aspects, namely, to design and carry out scenario planning for forest management in the Netherlands and... -
Snapshot Hoge Veluwe - Wildlife ecology with camera traps
National Park De Hoge Veluwe and Wageningen University operate a wildlife survey system that is unique in the world. Since 2013, 50-70 camera traps... -
Climate response of carbon and water dynamics in a subtropical forest