PASTFORWARD

09/12/2023
Combining multiple investigative approaches to unravel functional responses to global change in the understorey of temperate forests
Dries Landuyt, Michael P Perring, Haben Blondeel, Emiel De Lombaerde, Leen Depauw, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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15/10/2022
A model-based scenario analysis of the impact of forest management and environmental change on the understorey of temperate forests in Europe
Bingbin Wen, Haben Blondeel, Dries Landuyt, & Kris Verheyen
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15/01/2021
The need for an understory decision support system for temperate deciduous forest management
Haben Blondeel, Dries Landuyt, Pieter Vangansbeke, Pieter De Frenne, Kris Verheyen and Michael Perring
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06/11/2020
Understorey removal effects on tree regeneration in temperate forests: a meta‐analysis
Emiel De Lombaerde, Lander Baeten, Kris Verheyen, Michael P. Perring, Shiyu Ma, Dries Landuyt
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05/10/2020
Increasing liana frequency in temperate European forest understories is driven by ivy
Michael P Perring, Pieter De Frenne, Lionel R Hertzog, Haben Blondeel, Leen Depauw, Sybryn L Maes, Safaa Wasof, Hans Verbeeck, Kris Verheyen, forestREplot
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23/09/2020
Evaluating structural and compositional canopy characteristics to predict the light‐demand signature of the forest understorey in mixed, semi‐natural temperate forests
Leen Depauw, Michael P. Perring, Dries Landuyt, Sybryn L. Maes, Haben Blondeel, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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01/04/2020
Light, temperature and understorey cover predominantly affect early life stages of tree seedlings in a multifactorial mesocosm experiment
Emiel De Lombaerde, Haben Blondeel, Lander Baeten, Dries Landuyt, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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28/02/2020
Individualistic responses of forest herb traits to environmental change
Haben Blondeel, Michael P. Perring, Emiel De Lombaerde, Leen Depauw, Dries Landuyt, Sanne Govaert, Sybryn L. Maes, Pieter Vangansbeke, Pieter De Frenne & Kris Verheyen
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19/12/2019
Light availability and land-use history drive biodiversity and functional changes in forest herb layer communities
Leen Depauw, Michael P. Perring, Dries Landuyt, Sybryn Maes, Haben Blondeel, ... & Kris Verheyen
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15/12/2019
Plant functional trait response to environmental drivers across European temperate forest understorey communities
Sybryn L. Maes, Michael P. Perring, Leen Depauw, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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06/12/2019
Light and warming drive forest understorey community development in different environments
Haben Blondeel, Michael P. Perring, Leen Depauw, Emiel De Lombaerde, Dries Landuyt, Pieter De Frenne & Kris Verheyen
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06/11/2019
Drivers of above‐ground understorey biomass and nutrient stocks in temperate deciduous forests
Dries Landuyt, Sybryn L. Maes, Leen Depauw, Evy Ampoorter, Haben Blondeel, Michael P. Perring, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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16/09/2019
Larger direct than indirect effects of multiple environmental changes on leaf nitrogen of forest herbs
Haben Blondeel, Elyn Remy, Michael P. Perring, Dries Landuyt, Samuel Bodé, Pieter De Frenne, Pascal Boeckx & Kris Verheyen
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13/07/2019
The functional role of temperate forest understorey vegetation in a changing world
Dries Landuyt, Emiel De Lombaerde, Michael P. Perring, Lionel R. Hertzog, ... & Kris Verheyen
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21/06/2019
Tree regeneration responds more to shade casting by the overstorey and competition in the understorey than to abundance per se
Emiel De Lombaerde, Kris Verheyen, Hans Van Calster & Lander Baeten
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12/05/2019
A general framework for quantifying the effects of land-use history on ecosystem dynamics
Leen Depauw, Dries Landuyt, Michael P. Perring, Haben Blondeel, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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16/04/2019
Interactive effects of past land use and recent forest management on the understorey community in temperate oak forests in South Sweden
Leen Depauw, Michael P. Perring, Jörg Brunet, Sybryn Maes, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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15/02/2019
Litter quality, land-use history, and nitrogen deposition effects on topsoil conditions across European temperate deciduous forests
Sybryn Maes, Haben Blondeel, Michael P. Perring, Leen Depauw, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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11/10/2018
Environmental drivers interactively affect individual tree growth across temperate European forests
Sybryn Maes, Michael P. Perring, Margot Vanhellemont, Leen Depauw, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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01/10/2018
Context-dependency of agricultural legacies in temperate forest soils
Haben Blondeel, Michael P. Perring, Laurent Bergès, Jörg Brunet, Guillaume Decocq, Leen Depauw, Martin Diekmann, Dries Landuyt, Jaan Liira, Sybryn L. Maes, Margot Vanhellemont, Monika Wulf & Kris Verheyen
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31/08/2018
Observer and relocation errors matter in resurveys of historical vegetation plots
Kris Verheyen, Martin Bažány, Ewa Chećko, Markéta Chudomelovà, Déborah Closset-Kopp, Patryk Czortek, Guillaume Decocq, Pieter De Frenne, Luc De Keersmaeker, ..., & Lander Baeten
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03/07/2018
Understanding context dependency in the response of forest understorey plant communities to nitrogen deposition
Michael P. Perring, Martin Diekmann, Gabriele Midolo, David Schellenberger Costa, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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30/05/2018
Responses of competitive understorey species to spatial environmental gradients inaccurately explain temporal changes
Emiel De Lombaerde, Kris Verheyen, Michael P. Perring, Markus Berhardt-Römermann, ..., & Lander Baeten
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31/01/2018
Modelling understorey dynamics in temperate forests under global change – Challenges and perspectives
Dries Landuyt, Michael P. Perring, Rupert Seidl, Franziska Taubert, Hans Verbeeck & Kris Verheyen
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22/12/2017
Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies
Michael P. Perring, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Lander Baeten, Gabriele Midolo, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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31/10/2017
Evaluating the robustness of three ring-width measurement methods for growth release reconstruction
Sybryn Maes, Astrid Vannoppen, Jan Altman, Jan Van Den Bulcke, Guillaume Decocq, Tom De Mil, Leen Depauw, Dries Landuyt, Michael P. Perring, Joris Van Acker, Margot Vanhellemont & Kris Verheyen
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21/12/2016
Combining biodiversity resurveys across regions to advance global change research
Kris Verheyen, Pieter De Frenne, Lander Baeten, Donald M. Waller, Radim Hédl, Michael Perring, Haben Blondeel,..., & Markus Bernhardt-Römermann
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09/02/2016
Global environmental change effects on ecosystems: the importance of land-use legacies
Michael P. Perring, Pieter De Frenne, Lander Baeten, Sybryn L. Maes, Leen Depauw, Haben Blondeel, María M. Carón & Kris Verheyen
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17/08/2015
Light accelerates plant responses to warming
Pieter De Frenne, Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez, An De Schrijver,David A. Coomes, Martin Hermy, Pieter Vangansbeke & Kris Verheyen
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27/07/2015
Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Lander Baeten, Dylan Craven, Pieter De Frenne, Radim Hédl, Jonathan Lenoir, Didier Bert, Jörg Brunet,..., & Kris Verheyen
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22/08/2019
Seasonal drivers of understorey temperature buffering in temperate deciduous forests across Europe
Florian Zellweger, David Coomes, Jonathan Lenoir, Leen Depauw, Sybryn L. Maes, ..., & Pieter De Frenne
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19/07/2019
Understorey phylogenetic diversity in thermophilous deciduous forests: overstorey species identity can matter more than species richness
Andrea Coppi, Lorenzo Lazzaro, Evy Ampoorter, Lander Baeten, Kris Verheyen & Federico Selvi
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21/05/2019
Cascading effects of canopy mortality drive long-term changes in understorey diversity in temperate old-growth forests of Europe
Thomas A. Nagel, Giovanni Lacopetti, Jernej Javornik, Andrej Rozman, Pieter De Frenne, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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04/05/2019
Plant species identity and soil characteristics determine rhizosphere soil bacteria community composition in European temperate forests
Shiyu Ma, Pieter De Frenne, Nico Boon, Jörg Brunet, Sara A.O. Cousins, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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19/01/2019
Plant–soil feedbacks of forest understorey plants transplanted in nonlocal soils along a latitudinal gradient
Shiyu Ma, Pieter De Frenne, Safaa Wasof, Jörg Brunet, Sara A.O. Cousins, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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07/01/2019
Contrasting vegetation change (1974-2015) in hedgerows and forests in an intensively used agricultural landscape
Sanne Van Den Berge, Sam Tessens, Lander Baeten, Cecile Vanderschaeve & Kris Verheyen
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13/12/2018
Impacts of nitrogen addition on plant species richness and abundance: A global meta-analysis
Gabriele Midolo, Rob Alkemade, Aafke M. Schipper, Ana Benítez-López, Michael P. Perring & Wim De Vries
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01/11/2018
Effects of charcoal hearth soil on forest regeneration: Evidence from a two-year experiment on tree seedlings
Elisa Carrari, Evy Ampoorter, Filippo Bussotti, Andrea Coppi, ..., & Federico Selvi
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26/09/2018
Functional trait variation of forest understorey plant communities across Europe
Thomas Vanneste, Alicia Valdés, Kris Verheyen, Michael P. Perring, Markus Bernhardt-Römermann, Emilie Andrieu, Jörg Brunet, Sara A.O. Cousins, Marc Deconchat, Pallieter De Smedt, ..., & Pieter De Frenne
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02/07/2018
Using archived television video footage to quantify phenology responses to climate change
Pieter De Frenne, Lisa Van Langenhove, Alain Van Driessche, Cédric Bertrand, Kris Verheyen & Pieter Vangansbeke
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15/05/2018
Regeneration responses to climate and land-use change of four subtropical tree species of the southern Central Andes
Maria M. Carón, Pieter De Frenne, Pablo Ortega-Baes, A. Quinteros & Kris Verheyen
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15/05/2018
Very large trees in a lowland old-growth beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forest: Density, size, growth and spatial patterns in comparison to reference sites in Europe
Kris Vandekerkhove, Margot Vanhellemont, Tomáš Vrška, Peter Meyer, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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27/02/2018
Dominance of individual plant species is more important than diversity in explaining plant biomass in the forest understorey
Safaa Wasof, Jonathan Lenoir, Tarek Hattab, Aurélien Jamoneau, ..., & Guillaume Decocq
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16/02/2018
Persistent land-use legacies increase small-scale diversity and strengthen vegetation–soil relationships on an unmanaged heathland
Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Kris Verheyen, An De Schrijver, Jonas Morsing, Inger Kappel Schmidt
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15/02/2018
Maternal temperature during seed maturation affects seed germination and timing of bud set in seedlings of European black poplar
Sumitra Dewan, Kristine Vander Mijnsbrugge, Pieter De Frenne, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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08/02/2018
Plant and soil microbe responses to light, warming and nitrogen addition in a temperate forest
Shiyu Ma, Kris Verheyen, Ruben Props, Safaa Wasof, Margot Vanhellemont, Pascal Boeckx, Nico Boon & Pieter De Frenne
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11/01/2018
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition on petals enhances seed quality of the forest herb Anemone nemorosa
Pieter De Frenne, Haben Blondeel, Jörg Brunet, Maria M. Caròn, ..., & Kris Verheyen
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06/01/2018
Linking macrodetritivore distribution to desiccation resistance in small forest fragments embedded in agricultural landscapes in Europe
Pallieter De Smedt, Lander Baeten, Willem Proesmans, Matty P. Berg, Jörg Brunet, ...., & Kris Verheyen
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10/05/2017
Changes in the nature of environmental limitation in two forest herbs during two decades of forest succession
Lander Baeten & Kris Verheyen
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01/03/2017
Biological Flora of the British Isles: Milium effusum
Pieter De Frenne, Jörg Brunet, Mathias Cougnon, Guillaume Decocq, Bente J. Graae, Jenny Hagenblad, Martin Hermy, Annette Kolb, Isgard H. Lemke, Shiyu Ma, ... & Kris Verheyen
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23/05/2016
Beyond plant–soil feedbacks: mechanisms driving plant community shifts due to land-use legacies in post-agricultural forests
Eduardo de la Peña, Lander Baeten, Hanne Steel, Nicole Viaene, Nancy De Sutter,..., & Kris Verheyen
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01/04/2016
Driving mechanisms of overstorey-understorey diversity relationships in European forests
Evy Ampoorter, Federico Selvi, Harald Auge, Lander Baeten, Sigrid Berger, Elisa Carrari, Andrea Coppi, Mariangela Fotelli, Kalliopi Radoglou, Nuri Nurlaila Setiawan, Margot Vanhellemont & Kris Verheyen
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30/03/2016
Former charcoal sites serve as microhabitats for the conservation of understory vegetation diversity and enhanced productivity in Mediterranean forests
Elisa Carrari, Evy Ampoorter, Kris Verheyen, Andrea Coppi & Federico Selvi
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