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Visit us: FNL KU Leuven Follow us: FNL Facebook Contact us: [email protected] Scientific News New papers: Astrid Vannoppen, Bart Muys and Vincent Kint published the paper “Climate driven trends in tree biomass increment show asynchronous dependence on tree -ring width and wood density variaon” in Dendrochronologia. Read here. Bart Muys co-authored an arcle in the Swiss Forestry Journal about the management of the exoc black cherry (Prunus serona). Read here. Hans de Wandeler, Koenraad Van Meerbeek and Bart Muys published the paper “Tree identy rather than tree diversity drives earthworm communies in European forests” in Pedobiologia. Read here. Ellen Desie and Bart Muys co-authored the paper “Tree species effects are amplified by clay content in acidic soils” in Soil Biology & Biochemistry. Read here. Raf Aerts and Ben Somers co-authored the paper “Analyzing remotely sensed structural and chemical canopy traits of a forest invaded by Prunus serona over mulple spaal scales” in Biological Invasions. Read here. Ben Somers co-authored the paper “Can wetland plant funconal groups be spectrally discriminated?” in Remote Sensing of Environment. Read here. Bjorn Rombouts, Raf Aerts and Ben Somers co-authored the paper “Transferability of species distribuon models for the detecon of an invasive alien bryophyte using imaging spectroscopy data” in Internatonal Journal of Applied Earth Observaon and Geoinformaon. Read here. Elisa Van Cleemput, Laura Vanierschot and Ben Somers published the paper “The funconal characterizaon of grass- and shrubland ecosystems using hyperspectral remote sensing: trends, accuracy and moderang variables” in Remote Sensing of Environment. Read here. Raf Aerts co-authored a “Wilderness Image” of the Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal of the snake Lachesis stenophrys, one of America’s longest pit vipers. Have a look at the picture and the descripon here. Juan Zuo published the paper “Is there a tree economics spectrum of decomposability?” in Soil Biology and Biochemistry. Read here. Rita Silva, Bruno Verbist and Bart Muys published the paper “Adapng forest management to climate change in Europe: Linking percepons to adapve responses” in Forest Policy and Economics. Read here. Olga Zalamea and Jos Van Orshoven co-authored the paper “Merging and expanding exisng ontologies to cover the Built Cultural Heritage domain” in Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development . Read here. Olga Zalamea and Jos Van Orshoven co-authored the book chapter “Knowledge-based representaons applied to built cultural heritage” in the book “Innovave Built Heritage Models”. Floris Dalemans and Bart Muys published the paper “Redesigning oilseed tree biofuel systems in India” in Energy Policy. Read here. Jennifer Roelens, Ine Rosier and Jos Van Orshoven published the paper “Extracng drainage networks and their connecvity using LiDAR data” in Hydrological Processes. Read here. New projects Bart Muys will be leading the third work package of the SINCERE Project, a new EU Horizon 2020 Project on innovaons for forest ecosystem services. Bart aended the kick-off meeng in Bonn on 24-25 January. More info can be found here. Conferences, symposia & summer schools: On February 8 th the Naonal Symposium for Applied Biological Sciences was organized at VUB in Brussels. Bianca Drepper presented her poster on “Can the Flemish hard fruit sector cope with more extreme weather events ”. Floris Dalemans presented his poster on a “Predicon model for the seed and oil yield of Pongamia pinnata”. Awards and Achievements: Floris Dalemans received the Sustainability Award on the Naonal Symposium for Applied Biological Sciences for his poster “Predicon model for the seed and oil yield of Pongamia pinnata”. News about staff On March 28 th , Jan Vanstockem parcipated in the Falling Walls Lab compeon in Leuven. In this compeon, Jan and 14 other candidates had to present their research to a broad audience in 3 minutes. While Jan did not win the compeon, he succeeded in geng his message about the role of green roofs in breaking the wall of greener cies across within the me limit and with a lot of enthusiasm. Take a look at the the video and the pictures of the compeon here. The division welcomed several new colleagues in the past few months. Felix (Xu Fei) will be working on the automated mapping of impervious surfaces and urban green spaces. John Sekajugo has joined the division for a short research stay working on a paper on soil organic carbon stocks in Uganda. Ann Crabbé will work on a two-year project focused on translang algorithms of the STEREO II programme into open-source QGIS plugins. Germán Catalán, a student from the University of La Frontera in Chile, will work on his MSc thesis on the processing of UAV mulspectral images for the idenficaon of urban green structures. Paola Arroyo, also from the University of La Frontera, will work on her MSc thesis on post-fire plant recovery in Araucaria-Nothofagus forests in the China Muerta Naonal Reserve. Welcome Felix, John, Ann, Germán and Paola! From the press Bart Muys was featured in an article of the Flemish newspaper De Standaard on the forest cover increase in Europe during the last 100 years. He explained that not only the forest cover but also the forest quality matters, and that some primary forests in Eastern Europe are under great pressure. The article can be found here (in Dutch). Another De Standaard article cites some comments of Bruno Verbist on the purchase of some forests in Brussel by the Flemish government. The article can be found here (in Dutch). The e-zine “Bosrevue” of the Flemish NGO BOS+ published an article on wood production in Flanders featuring the Sim4Tree decision-support tool developed by the division. Read here (in Dutch). You can subscribe to the “Bosrevue” here. In other news The third newsleer of the H2020-project DAFNE in which the division (LandInforMan) parcipates is out, featuring colleague Mulenga Kalumba. Read here. AGENDA 23/04 Lunch seminar Ellen Desie (12:30 pm in GI 01.267) 07/05 Lunch seminar Floris Dale- mans (12:30 pm in GI 01.267) 24/05 FNL Lab Trip and barbecue 28/05 Lunch seminar Charloe Waeyn (12:30 pm in GI 01.207) PICTURE OF THE MONTH NEWSLETTER — March 2018 Students parcipang in the “forest week” in the university forest in Hamont-Achel
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Scientific News
New papers:
Astrid Vannoppen, Bart Muys and Vincent Kint published the paper “Climate
driven trends in tree biomass increment show asynchronous dependence on tree
-ring width and wood density variation” in Dendrochronologia. Read here.
Bart Muys co-authored an article in the Swiss Forestry Journal about the
management of the exotic black cherry (Prunus serotina). Read here.
Hans de Wandeler, Koenraad Van Meerbeek and Bart Muys published the
paper “Tree identity rather than tree diversity drives earthworm communities in
European forests” in Pedobiologia. Read here.
Ellen Desie and Bart Muys co-authored the paper “Tree species effects are
amplified by clay content in acidic soils” in Soil Biology & Biochemistry. Read
here.
Raf Aerts and Ben Somers co-authored the paper “Analyzing remotely sensed
structural and chemical canopy traits of a forest invaded by Prunus serotina over
multiple spatial scales” in Biological Invasions. Read here.
Ben Somers co-authored the paper “Can wetland plant functional groups be
spectrally discriminated?” in Remote Sensing of Environment. Read here. Bjorn Rombouts, Raf Aerts and Ben Somers co-authored the paper
“Transferability of species distribution models for the detection of an invasive
alien bryophyte using imaging spectroscopy data” in Internatonal Journal of
Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. Read here. Elisa Van Cleemput, Laura Vanierschot and Ben Somers published the paper
“The functional characterization of grass- and shrubland ecosystems using
hyperspectral remote sensing: trends, accuracy and moderating variables” in
Remote Sensing of Environment. Read here.
Raf Aerts co-authored a “Wilderness Image” of the Wilderness & Environmental Medicine journal of the snake Lachesis
stenophrys, one of America’s longest pit vipers. Have a look at the picture and the description here. Juan Zuo published the paper “Is there a tree economics spectrum of decomposability?” in Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
Read here. Rita Silva, Bruno Verbist and Bart Muys published the paper “Adapting forest management to climate change in Europe:
Linking perceptions to adaptive responses” in Forest Policy and Economics. Read here. Olga Zalamea and Jos Van Orshoven co-authored the paper “Merging and expanding existing ontologies to cover the Built
Cultural Heritage domain” in Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development. Read here. Olga Zalamea and Jos Van Orshoven co-authored the book chapter “Knowledge-based representations applied to built
cultural heritage” in the book “Innovative Built Heritage Models”. Floris Dalemans and Bart Muys published the paper “Redesigning oilseed tree biofuel systems in India” in Energy Policy. Read
here. Jennifer Roelens, Ine Rosier and Jos Van Orshoven published the paper “Extracting drainage networks and their connectivity
using LiDAR data” in Hydrological Processes. Read here. New projects
Bart Muys will be leading the third work package of the SINCERE Project, a new EU Horizon 2020 Project on innovations for
forest ecosystem services. Bart attended the kick-off meeting in Bonn on 24-25 January. More info can be found here.
Conferences, symposia & summer schools: On February 8th the National Symposium for Applied Biological Sciences was organized at VUB in Brussels. Bianca Drepper
presented her poster on “Can the Flemish hard fruit sector cope with more extreme weather events”. Floris Dalemans
presented his poster on a “Prediction model for the seed and oil yield of Pongamia pinnata”.
Awards and Achievements:
Floris Dalemans received the Sustainability Award on the National Symposium for Applied Biological Sciences for his poster
“Prediction model for the seed and oil yield of Pongamia pinnata”.
News about staff On March 28th, Jan Vanstockem participated in the Falling Walls Lab competition in Leuven. In this competition, Jan and 14
other candidates had to present their research to a broad audience in 3 minutes. While Jan did not win the competition, he
succeeded in getting his message about the role of green roofs in breaking the wall of greener cities across within the time
limit and with a lot of enthusiasm. Take a look at the the video and the pictures of the competition here.
The division welcomed several new colleagues in the past few months. Felix (Xu Fei) will be working on the automated
mapping of impervious surfaces and urban green spaces. John Sekajugo has joined the division for a short research stay
working on a paper on soil organic carbon stocks in Uganda. Ann Crabbé will work on a two-year project focused on
translating algorithms of the STEREO II programme into open-source QGIS plugins. Germán Catalán, a student from the
University of La Frontera in Chile, will work on his MSc thesis on the processing of UAV multispectral images for the
identification of urban green structures. Paola Arroyo, also from the University of La Frontera, will work on her MSc thesis on
post-fire plant recovery in Araucaria-Nothofagus forests in the China Muerta National Reserve. Welcome Felix, John, Ann,
Germán and Paola!
From the press Bart Muys was featured in an article of the Flemish newspaper De Standaard on the forest cover increase in Europe
during the last 100 years. He explained that not only the forest cover but also the forest quality matters, and that some
primary forests in Eastern Europe are under great pressure. The article can be found here (in Dutch).
Another De Standaard article cites some comments of Bruno Verbist on the purchase of some forests in Brussel by the
Flemish government. The article can be found here (in Dutch).
The e-zine “Bosrevue” of the Flemish NGO BOS+ published an article on wood production in Flanders featuring the Sim4Tree
decision-support tool developed by the division. Read here (in Dutch). You can subscribe to the “Bosrevue” here.
In other news The third newsletter of the H2020-project DAFNE in which the division (LandInforMan) participates is out, featuring colleague
Mulenga Kalumba. Read here.
AGENDA
23/04 Lunch seminar Ellen Desie
(12:30 pm in GI 01.267)
07/05 Lunch seminar Floris Dale-
mans (12:30 pm in GI
01.267)
24/05 FNL Lab Trip and barbecue
28/05 Lunch seminar Charlotte
Watteyn (12:30 pm in GI
01.207)
PICTURE OF THE MONTH
NEWSLETTER — March 2018
Students participating in the “forest week” in the university
forest in Hamont-Achel
