Code
3E019614
Duration
01 October 2014 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Plant biology
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Forestry sciences
Keywords
Biodiversity
dendrochronology
Project description
We will study the relation between a tree’s local neighbourhood diversity, its crown shape (tLiDAR), diameter growth and response to drought stress (X-ray tomography) in permanent monitoring plots in unmanaged forest reserves: complex stands with large age and size differences between trees that thus offer a broad range of tree diversity levels within a single site.