Forest Ecology and Management Research Group
Staff
Full-time guest professor
- Raf Aerts, PhD
Forest science, Forestry, Tropical forest ecology and restoration
Part-time professor
- Vincent Kint, PhD
Planning forestry and nature conservation
Doctoral researchers
- Joana Almeida
Spatio-temporal enabeling of LCA
- Veerle Buytaert
Sustainability of biomass for energy
- Hans De Wandeler
Earthworms and forest soil ecology
- Kidane Giday
Restoration of degraded Afromontane forest
- Bie Gielen
Waterbased growthmodelling of Jatropha
- Pieter Hawinkel
Monitoring vegetation dynamics and carbon stocks
- Kitessa Hundera
Management of Afromontane 'coffee forests'
- Pieter Moonen
Reduced emissions land use change policies in the tropics
- Koen Thijs
Forest fragmentation and extinction debt
- Mesfin Tilahun Gelaye
Bio-economics of Boswellia papyrifera
- Antonio Trabucco
Trees outside forest and climate change mitigation
- Aklilu Negussie
Regeneration ecology and productivity of Jatropha curcas
Postdoctoral researchers
- Wim Aertsen
Forest ecology and management
- Bruno Verbist
Sustainable biomass use
Affiliated researchers
- Wouter Achten
Life cycle assessment of energy trees
MSc Thesis students
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2011-2012
- Leen Vervoort
Carbon storage in Jatropha biomass in Mali
- Jeroen Degerickx
Carbon storage in the soil under Jatropha in Mali
- Matthias Eecloo
Water footprint of Jatropha in Mali
- Juan Camacho
Restoration of riverine forest in Colombia
- Sarah Spranghers
Carbon storage and biodiversity conservation in coffee gardens and Amazon forest fragments in Peru
- Koen Vanderhaegen
Carbon storage and biodiversity conservation in the lowland rainforest of DR Congo
- Sam Ottoy
Functional soil biodiversity in mixed forests in Europe
Technical support
