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The overall goal of the DOFOCO team (ERC starting grant 242564) is to quantify and understand the role of forest management in mitigating climate change.
Members of the team:
James Ryder (post-doc 1/8/2011-ongoing)
Aude Valade (post-doc 1/9/2013-ongoing)
Guillaume Marie (post-doc 1/7/2016-ongoing)
Sebastiaan Luyssaert (PI)
Former members:
Ferenc Pasztor (post-doc 1/5/2014-1/9/2015)
Yiying Chen (post-doc 1/2/2014-30/6/2015)
Kim Naudts (post-doc 1/5/2012-30/4/2015)
Matthew McGrath (post-doc 1/11/2012-31/12/2014)
Juliane Otto (post-doc 1/10/2010-30/06/2014)
Matteo Campioli (visiting post-doc 1/10/2012-31/12/2012)
Bert Gielen (visiting post-doc 1/3/2011-31/12/2011)
Marta Camino Serrano (PhD obtained October 2015)
Mathile Jammet (M2 intern 1/3/2011-30/6/2011)
CV
1996 Student Conservation Agency, National Park Service, Grand Canyon NP, revegetation crew, USA
1997-2001 Ph D studies and research, Universiteit Gent (UG), Belgium
2001-2001 Post-doctoral Research, Universiteit Gent (UG), Belgium
2002-2004 Post-doctoral Research, Marie Curie fellowship, Metsäntutkimuslaitos (Metla), Finland
2004-2005 Common Fisheries Policy, Dienst zeevisserijonderzoek (CLO-DVZ), Belgium
2005-2006 Post-doctoral Research, Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), Belgium
2006-2007 Post-doctoral Research, Oregon State University (OSU), USA
2007-2010 Post-doctoral Research, Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), Belgium
2010-... ERC starting Grant, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnemant (LSCE), France
Publications scientifiques
2016
- Naudts, K. et al., Europe’s forest management did not mitigate climate warming. Science, 2016. 351, 597-600, DOI: 10.1126/science.aad7270 (full text HTML) (full text PDF)
- Ryder, J. et al., A multi-layer land surface energy budget model for implicit coupling with global atmospheric simulations, Geoscientific Model Development, 2016, 9, 223-245
2015
- McGrath, M. J. et al., Reconstructing European forest management from 1600 to 2010, Biogeosciences, 2015, 12, 4291-4316
- Naudts, K. et al., A vertically discretised canopy description for ORCHIDEE (SVN r2290) and the modifications to the energy, water and carbon fluxes, Geoscientific Model development, 2015, 8, 2035-2065
- Vanden Broucke, S et al., New insights in the capability of climate models to simulate the impact of LUC based on temperature decomposition of paired site observations, journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 2015, 120, 5417-5436
- Campioli, M et al., Biomass production effciency controlled by management in temperate and boreal ecosystems. Nature Geoscience, 2015, 8, 843
- Fernandez-Martinez, M et al., Reply to 'Uncertain effects of nutrient availability on global forest carbon balance' and 'Data quality and the role of nutrients in forest carbon-use efficiency', Nature Climate Change, 2015, 5, 960-961
- De Groote, T. et al., ORCHIDEE-SRC v1.0: an extension of the land surface model ORCHIDEE for simulating short rotation coppice poplar plantations, Geoscientific Model development, 2015, 8, 1461-1471
2014
- Bellassen, V. & Luyssaert, S., Comment: Carbon sequestration: Managing forests in uncertain times. Nature, 2014. 506, 153–155.
- Luyssaert, S., et al., Land management and land-cover changehave impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature. Nature Climate Change, 2014. 4, 389-393.
- Fernández-Martínez, M., et al., Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance. Nature Climate Change, 2014. 4, 471-476.
- Saito, M., et al., Fire regimes and variability in aboveground woody biomass in miombo woodland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2014. 119, 1014–1029.
- Camino-Serrano, M., et al., Linking variability in soil solution dissolved organic carbon to climate, soil type, and vegetation type. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2014. 28, doi:10.1002/2013GB004726.
- Otto, J. et al., Forest summer albedo is sensitive to species and thinning: how should we account for this in Earth system models?, Biogeosciences, 2014, 11, 2411-2427
- Tang, J. et al., Steeper declines in forest photosynthesis than respiration explain age-driven decreases in forest growth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014, 111, 8856-8860
- Fernandez-Martinez, M. et al., Spatial variability and controls over biomass stocks, carbon fluxes, and resource-use efficiencies across forest ecosystems, Trees structure and function, 2014, 28, 597-611
- Ciais, P. et al., Current systematic carbon-cycle observations and the need for implementing a policy-relevant carbon observing system, Biogeosciences, 2014, 11, 3547-3602
2013
- Hudiburg, T.W., et al., Interactive Effects of Environmental Change and Management Strategies on Regional Forest Carbon Emissions. Environmental Science and Technology, 2013. 47, 13132-13140.
- Yue, C et al., Simulating boreal forest carbon dynamics after stand-replacing fire disturbance: insights from a global process-based vegetation model. Biogeosciences, 2013. 10, 8233–8252.
- Heinz, K.E., et al., Bias in the attribution of forest carbon sinks. Nature Climate Change, 2013. 3, 854-856.
- Regnier, P., et al., Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean. Nature Geoscience, 2013. 6(8): p. 597-607.
- Law, B.E., et al., Thinning effects on forest productivity: consequences of preserving old forests and mitigating impacts of fire and drought. Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2013. 6(1): p. 73-85. 61.
- Haberl, H., et al., Response: complexities of sustainable forest use. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 2013. 5(1): p. 1-2. 62.
- Luyssaert, S., et al. Can land use intensity be reliably quantified by using a single self-thinning relationship? Reply to Schall and Ammer. Ecological Applications, 2013. 23(3): p. 677-678.
2012
- Schulze, E.-D., et al. Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral. Global Change Biology Bionenergy, available on-line. doi:10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01169.x
- Luyssaert, S., et al., The European land and inland water CO2, CO, CH4 and N2O balance between 2001 and 2005. Biogeosciences, 2012. 9(8), p. 3357–3380. doi:10.5194/bg-9-3357-2012
- Vicca, S., et al, Fertile forests produce biomass more efficiently. Ecology letters, 2012. p. 520–526. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01775.x
- Luyssaert, S., et al., Quantifying land use and disturbance intensity in forestry, based on the self-thinning relationship. Ecological Applications, 2012. 21(8): p. 3272-3284.
2011
- Sulkava, M., et al. (2011). Assessing and improving the representativeness of monitoring networks: The European flux tower network example. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences 2011. 116
- Schulze, E. D., et al. Response to 'The European nitrogen cycle: response to Schulze et al, Global Change Biology (2010) 16, pp. 1451-1469'. Global Change Biology, 2011. 17: p. 2758-2761.
- Hudiburg, T. W., et al. Regional carbon dioxide implications of forest bioenergy production. Nature Climate Change, 2011. 1: p. 419-423.
- Gielen, B., et al. The importance of dissolved organic carbon fluxes for the carbon balance of a temperate Scots pine forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2011. 151: p. 270-278.
- Bellassen, V., et al. Reconstruction and attribution of the carbon sink of European forests between 1950 and 2000. Global Change Biology, 2011. 17: p. 3274-3292.
- Bellassen, V., et al. Potential knowledge gain in large-scale simulations of forest carbon fluxes from remotely sensed biomass and height. Forest Ecology and Management, 2011. 261: p. 515-530.
- Anderson, et al. Biophysical considerations in forestry for climate protection. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2011. 9: p. 174-182.
2010
- Teuling, A. J., et al., Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves, Nature Geoscience, 2010. 3(10), p. 722-727.
- Schwalm, C.R., et al., Assimilation exceeds respiration sensitivity to drought: A FLUXNET synthesis. Global Change Biology, 2010. 16(2): p. 657-670.
- Schulze, E.D., et al., Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance (vol 2, pg 842, 2009). Nature Geoscience, 2010. 3(1): p. 65-65.
- Schulze, E.D., et al., The European carbon balance. Part 4: integration of carbon and other trace-gas fluxes. Global Change Biology, 2010. 16(5): p. 1451-1469.
- Schulze, E.D., et al., The European carbon balance. Part 4: integration of carbon and other trace-gas fluxes (vol 16, pg 1451, 2010). Global Change Biology, 2010. 16(8): p. 2399-2399.
- Richardson, A.D., et al., Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 2010. 365(1555): p. 3227-3246.
- Piao, S.L., et al., Forest annual carbon cost: a global-scale analysis of autotrophic respiration. Ecology, 2010. 91(3): p. 652-661.
- Luyssaert, S., et al., The European carbon balance. Part 3: forests. Global Change Biology, 2010. 16(5): p. 1429-1450.
- Liberloo, M., et al., Bio-Energy Retains Its Mitigation Potential Under Elevated CO2. Plos One, 2010. 5(7).
- Janssens, I.A., et al., Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition. Nature Geoscience, 2010. 3(5): p. 315-322.
- Dieleman W.I.J., et al., Soil [N] modulates soil C cycling in CO2-fumigated tree stands: a meta-analysis. Plant Cell and Environment, 2010. 33: p. 2001-2011.
- Ciais, P., et al., The European carbon balance. Part 2: croplands. Global Change Biology, 2010. 16(5): p. 1409-1428.
- Ciais, P., et al. Can we reconcile atmospheric estimates of the Northern terrestrial carbon sink with land-based accounting?, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2010, 2(4), 225-230.
- Beer, C., et al., Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate. Science, 2010. 329(5993): p. 834-838.
2009
- Yuan, W.P., et al., Latitudinal patterns of magnitude and interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange regulated by biological and environmental variables. Global Change Biology, 2009. 15(12): p. 2905-2920.
- Schulze, E.D., et al., Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance. Nature Geoscience, 2009. 2(12): p. 842-850.
- Luyssaert, S., et al., Toward a consistency cross-check of eddy covariance flux-based and biometric estimates of ecosystem carbon balance. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2009. 23.
- Janssens, I.A. and S. Luyssaert, Nitrogen's carbon bonus. Nature Geoscience, 2009. 2(5): p. 318-319.
- Battin, T.J., et al., The boundless carbon cycle. Nature Geoscience, 2009. 2(9): p. 598-600.
2008
- Piao, S.L., et al., Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming. Nature, 2008. 451(7174): p. 49-U3.
- Luyssaert, S., et al., Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks. Nature, 2008. 455(7210): p. 213-215.
- Ciais, P., et al., Carbon accumulation in European forests. Nature Geoscience, 2008. 1(7): p. 425-429.
2007
- Sulkava, M., et al., Modeling the effects of varying data quality on trend detection in environmental monitoring. Ecological Informatics, 2007. 2(2): p. 167-176.
- Luyssaert, S., et al., Photosynthesis drives anomalies in net carbon-exchange of pine forests at different latitudes. Global Change Biology, 2007. 13(10): p. 2110-2127.
- Luyssaert, S., et al., CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database. Global Change Biology, 2007. 13(12): p. 2509-2537.
- Jung, M., et al., Assessing the ability of three land ecosystem models to simulate gross carbon uptake of forests from boreal to Mediterranean climate in Europe. Biogeosciences, 2007. 4(4): p. 647-656.
2006
- Serbruyns, I. and S. Luyssaert, Acceptance of sticks, carrots and sermons as policy instruments for directing private forest management. Forest Policy and Economics, 2006. 9(3): p. 285-296.
- Mertens, J., S. Luyssaert, and K. Verheyen, Comment on "In defense of plants as biomonitors of soil quality". Environmental Pollution, 2006. 144(3): p. 715-715.
- De Schrijver, A., et al., Acidification of forested podzols in North Belgium during the period 1950-2000. Science of the Total Environment, 2006. 361(1-3): p. 189-195.
2005
- Van Gossum, P., et al., Forest groups as support to private forest owners in developing close-to-nature management. Forest Policy and Economics, 2005. 7(4): p. 589-601.
- Mertens, J., S. Luyssaert, and K. Verheyen, Use and abuse of trace metal concentrations in plant tissue for biomonitoring and phytoextraction. Environmental Pollution, 2005. 138(1): p. 1-4.
- Luyssaert, S., et al., Are N and S deposition altering the mineral composition of Norway spruce and Scots pine needles in Finland? Environmental Pollution, 2005. 138(1): p. 5-17.
- Luyssaert, S., J. Staelens, and A. De Schrijver, Does the commonly used estimator of nutrient resorption in tree foliage actually measure what it claims to? Oecologia, 2005. 144(2): p. 177-186.
2004
- Staelens, J., L. Nachtergale, and S. Luyssaert, Predicting the spatial distribution of leaf litterfall in a mixed deciduous forest. Forest Science, 2004. 50(6): p. 836-847.
- Mertens, J., et al., Metal uptake by young trees from dredged brackish sediment: limitations and possibilities for phytoextraction and phytostabilisation. Science of the Total Environment, 2004. 326(1-3): p. 209-215.
- Luyssaert, S., et al., Evaluation of forest nutrition based on large-scale foliar surveys: are nutrition profiles the way of the future? Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2004. 6(2): p. 160-167.
- De Schrijver, A., et al., Comparison of throughfall and soil solution chemistry between a high-density Corsican pine stand and a naturally regenerated silver birch stand. Environmental Pollution, 2004. 131(1): p. 93-105.
2003
- Vervaeke, P., et al., Phytoremediation prospects of willow stands on contaminated sediment: a field trial. Environmental Pollution, 2003. 126(2): p. 275-282.
- Staelens, J., et al., A model of wind-influenced leaf litterfall in a mixed hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research-Revue Canadienne De Recherche Forestiere, 2003. 33(2): p. 201-209.
- Luyssaert, S., J. Mertens, and H. Raitio, Support, shape and number of replicate samples for tree foliage analysis. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2003. 5(3): p. 500-504.
2002
- Nachtergale, L., et al., Earthworm biomass and species diversity in windthrow sites of a temperate lowland forest. Pedobiologia, 2002. 46(5): p. 440-451.
- Luyssaert, S., et al., Sampling procedure for the foliar analysis of deciduous trees. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2002. 4(6): p. 858-864.
- Luyssaert, S., et al., Should foliar cadmium concentrations be expressed on a dry weight or dry ash weight basis? Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2002. 4(3): p. 408-412.
2001
- Vervaeke, P., et al., Dredged sediment as a substrate for biomass production of willow trees established using the SALIMAT technique. Biomass & Bioenergy, 2001. 21(2): p. 81-90.
- Mertens, J., et al., Cd and Zn concentrations in small mammals and willow leaves on disposal facilities for dredged material. Environmental Pollution, 2001. 115(1): p. 17-22.
- Luyssaert, S., M. Van Meirvenne, and N. Lust, Cadmium variability in leaves of a Salix fragilis: simulation and implications for leaf sampling. Canadian Journal of Forest Research-Revue Canadienne De Recherche Forestiere, 2001. 31(2): p. 313-321.
- Luyssaert, S., et al., Preliminary results of afforestation of brackish sludge mounds. Ecological Engineering, 2001. 16(4): p. 567-572.
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Forest Management cartoons.
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