Closing the DAta gap to develop Land Surface MOdels for COngo Basin forests - DAMOCO

Cong’eau: Ecohydrological and climatic shifts in the Congo Basin

Quantifying feedbacks between forest structure, light, microclimate and carbon cycling using distributed photonic sensors

Modelling lianas as key drivers of tropical forest responses to climate change

3D-Explicit tree representation from terrestrial laser scanning to improve radiative transfer modeling of forests.

Data- and process-based modelling of the impact of forest structure on microclimate

Doctoral project Barbara D'hont

Doctoral project Franklin Geovanny Marin Molina

Doctoral project Hannes De Deurwaerder

Doctoral project Ines dos Santos Vieira

Doctoral project Sruthi Krishna Moorthy Parvathi

Does liana proliferation cool down tropical forests?

Dynamics and recovery of montane forests under climate change

Improved estimates of forest aboveground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning

Improving forest biomass estimates from various laser scanning platforms

Laser Scanning for Monitoring Tree Structure in Tropical Rainforests.

Mapping plant functional traits to quantify forest ecosystem services

Automation in 3D forest point cloud analysis

Biocarbon Europe: Advancing Measurement Standard

Digital Twins for Intelligent Upscaling of 4D Forest Monitoring

Doctoral project Elizabeth Kearsley

Doctoral project Hannes De Deurwaerder

Doctoral project Jackie Epila

Doctoral project Jean Aime Ruticumugambi

Doctoral project Maja Simpraga

Doctoral project Xingyan Cao

Forest structure and its impact on ecosystems services of church forests in the Lake Tana Basin

Terrestrial laser scanning for understanding forest disturbances and recovery

Terrestrial laser scanning in young planted mixed-species forests: relationships among species diversity, structure, microclimate, and tree productivity.

Trees in the urban jungle: modelling the impact of tree planting strategies on urban overheating

Tree species identification and biomass estimation based on LiDAR data

Water use efficiency of tropical forests of the Congo basin

3D-CITREES - Estimating the aboveground biomass of city trees in Ghent, Belgium

African Forest RecOvery and CArbon Dynamics monitoring through Remote Sensing - AFRO-CARDS

Assessing the impact of lianas on aboveground wood production in tropical forests: scaling from individual to stand-level

Better Quantifying Ecosystem Services through Digital Twins of Urban Trees

BOF-ZAP professorship in applied vegetation ecology

COBECORE-2: Upgrading of archived eco-climatic data from the Kong basin

COFOREC Consolidating a long-term forest monitoring network in a human modified landscape in Northern Ecuador.

COFOREC Consolidating a long-term monitoring network in a human modified landscape in Northern Ecuador.

COFOREC Summer School 2.0

Collective Response from Individual Behavior in Groups and Ecosystems (CRIB)

Congo basin eco-climatological data recovery and valorisation (COBECORE)

Consolidating a long-term forest monitoring network in a human modified landscape in Northern Ecuador II (COFOREC II)

Detecting and predicting how droughts increase tropical tree mortality: a pantropical assessment

Disentangling potential drivers of success in ecological restoration along an altitudinal gradient in the Andes Ecuador

Does liana proliferation cool down tropical forests?

Dryland woody vegetation sensitivity to soil texture and precipitation variability (ARBORESENS)

Forest ecosystem modelling

From LEAF to Terrestrial Biosphere Model: Integrating multi-scale observations of highly diverse tropical ecosystems for global scale simulations

International Francqui Professor: David S. Ellsworth

Novel in-situ 3D forest structure and biomass estimates to validate air/spaceborne products

Preliminary regional and a local assessment of the global ecosystem restoration potential in Europe.

Recovery and conservation of Andean tropical mountain forest to benefit livelihood of local communities

SR/00/366 U-TURN 2.0: Understanding Turning Points in Dryland Ecosystem Functioning

SR/02/394 - 3D-TERRAIN - Detecting microtopography and termite mounds from UAV point clouds

There’s no such thing as “The Tropical Rainforest”: incorporating heterogeneity of tropical forests in a global vegetation model

There’s no such thing as “The Tropical Rainforest”: regional and continent-specific parameterization of tropical forests in a global vegetation model

The role of lianas for the carbon cycle in the tropical rainforests of the Congo basin

Trees in the urban jungle: modelling the impact of tree planting strategies on urban overheating

Understanding forest growth dynamics using novel 3D measurements and modelling approaches

Understanding the ecology of the Congo Basin forests from space

Unraveling below ground competition for water between lianas and trees using stable isotopes

UTURN- Understanding Turning Points in Dryland Ecosystem Functioning

Will the Congo basin forest hit a tipping point? Estimating the risk of large-scale changes of the Congo Basin forests based on data assimilation in a Land Surface Model

Winners and Losers: does water availability affect the Structural Economic Spectrum of tropical forests?

AMAZALERT

Conservation of indigenous food systems and underutilized crops in Lango Subregion, Uganda

Improving carbon cycle ecosystem models using a new cost function concept to assimilate multiple data streams

Managing environmental pressures in temperate forests: Processbased modelling of understorey community dynamics to promote biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service provision

Role of Phosphorus biogeochemistry for forest regrowth in the Congo basin

Role of Phosphorus biogeochemistry for forest regrowth in the Congo basin

Understanding and addressing Andean forest vulnerability to global change through ecological restoration

Unsupervised classification of LiDAR point clouds in tropical forests

BOF-ZAP professorship in applied vegetation ecology

Improving resilience of farmers’ livelihoods to climate change through innovative, research proven climate-smart agroforestry and efficient use of tree resources in the Eastern Province and peri-urban areas of Kigali city

Strategic Institutional Partnership Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL) 2020-2022

Strategic Institutional Partnership University of Queensland