CAVElab - Research Projects
Current Research Projects
ERC starting grant TREECLIMBERS
- Modelling lianas as key drivers of tropical forest responses to climate change
- 2015–2020
- Project Website
BOF starting grant (Special Research Fund Ghent University)
- There’s no such thing as “The Tropical Rainforest”: regional and continent specific parameterization of tropical forests in a global vegetation model
- 2016–2019.
VLIR UOS CO2 compensation project (scientific support to Bos+)
- Planting multipurpose trees for carbon sequestration, improvement of forest corridors and socio-economic benefits for small-scale cattle farmers in rural areas of Northern Ecuador
- 2016-2018.
BOF PhD Scholarship of Francis Mumbanza Mundondo
- The role of lianas for the carbon cycle in the tropical rainforests of the Congo basin
- 2016-2020.
CEBA LabEx CEBA scientific project DROUGHT
- Functional diversity and response to drought in tropical forests
- 2016-2019.
- Project Website
COBECORE (BELSPO)
- Congo basin eco-climatological data recovery and valorization
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2017-2020.
- Project Website
U-TURN (BELSPO-STEREO)
- Understanding turning points in dryland ecosystem functioning
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2017-2021.
- Project Website
CRIB (ERANET-LAC project)
- Collective Response from Individual Behavior in Groups and Ecosystems
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2017-2019.
- Project Website
3D-FOREST (BELSPO STEREO)
- Novel in-situ 3D forest structure and biomass estimates to validate air/spaceborne products
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2017-2020.
- Project Website
FWO research grant (Krediet aan navorsers)
- Unraveling below ground competition for water between lianas and trees using stable isotopes
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2018-2019.
FORMONCO II (VLIRUOS-TEAM)
- Understanding responses and resilience of central Congo basin forests to a changing environment.
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2018-2021.
COFOREC I & II (VLIRUOS South Initiative)
- Consolidating a long-term forest monitoring network in a human modified landscape in Northern Ecuador.
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2018-2019
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Yangambi Pôle Scientifique au Service de l'homme (YPS-project)
- Contrat FED/2017/388-960 entre la Communauté Européenne et le CIFOR
- Building a flux tower in the Yangambi Man and Biosphere Reserve
- 2018-2021
FWO project
- There’s no such thing as “The Tropical Rainforest”: incorporating heterogeneity of tropical forests in a global vegetation model
- 2019–2022
Previous Research Projects
Citizen science project Jungle Rythms
- Digitizing a unique historical phenology datasets of tropical trees in the DR Congo
- 2015–2016.
- Contribute to this project via junglerhythms.org
VLADOC PhD Scholarship (VLIR UOS) Marijn Bauters
- Disentangling biogeochemical cycles in contrasting tropical forests of the central Congo Basin, for a better understanding of their interaction with global change
- 2015–2017
VLIR-UOS team project FORMONCO
- Development of a platform for long-term integrated forest ecosystem monitoring in DR Congo
- 2015-2016.
VLIR-UOS (Flemish University Development Cooperation) ICP PhD grant Jackie Epila
- Assessment of the drought vulnerability of key tree species in Ugandan tropical forest
- 2012-2016
COBIMFO Project (BESLPO SDD)
- Congo basin integrated monitoring for forest carbon mitigation and biodiversity
- 2011-2015
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VEGECLIM-project (BELSPO: Belgian Science Policy Office STEREO II)
- Integrating SPOT – VEGETATION 10 yr Time Series and Land-Surface Modelling to Forecast the Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics in a Changing Climate
- 2010-2014.
- Project Website
EU FP7 project AMAZALERT
- Raising the alert about critical feedbacks between climate and land use change in Amazonia
- 2011-2014
- Project Website