Current Research
ERC starting grant TREECLIMBERS
- Modelling lianas as key drivers of tropical forest responses to climate change
- 2015–2020
- Project Website
VLADOC PhD Scholarschip (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
COBIMFO Project (BESLPO SDD)
- Congo basin integrated monitoring for forest carbon mitigation and biodiversity
- 2011-2015
- Project Website
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
VLIR-UOS team project FORMONCO
- Development of a platform for long-term integrated forest ecosystem monitoring in DR Congo
- 2015-2016.
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.
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
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
Previous Research
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