Networking

National networks

• Aelmoeseneie forest The university's forest, used as a research site by Ghent University and INBO since the 1960s (Aelmoeseneie forest)
• treediv|Belgium A national research network on the functional importance of tree biodiversity (www.treedivbelgium.ugent.be)
• LTER Belgium The Aelmoeseneie forest and the 3 sites of the FORBIO experiment are part of the Long-Term Ecosystem Research Network in Belgium (http://www.lter-belgium.be/)
• ELAND Ecolabs in an educational LANDscape. A research platform on forest, nature and green management of the Ghent University Association (http://www.eland.ugent.be/)

International networks

• FLEUR European researchers interested in forest plant dynamics in a changing environment (www.fleur.ugent.be)

• forestREplot A database of herb layer resurvey plots in temperate forests in Europe and North-America (www.forestreplot.ugent.be)

• FunDivEUROPE Functional significance of biodiversity in six European forest types
• smallFOREST Biodiversity and ecosystem services of small forest fragments in Europe (www.u-picardie.fr/smallforest)
• TreeDivNet A unique platform for ecosystem research in tree diversity experiments worldwide (www.treedivnet.ugent.be)
• CAFRINAT Centre of Excellence for the African Great Lakes’ Natural Capital (https://www.cafrinat.be/)
• TeaComposition Initiative to study long-term litter carbon dynamics and its key drivers at present and predicted climate scenarios worldwide using a standard protocol (https://www.teacomposition.org/)

National collaborations

• ILVO Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (www.ilvo.vlaanderen.be)
• INBO Research Institute for Nature and Forest (www.inbo.be)
• KU Leuven University of Leuven (www.kuleuven.be/kuleuven/)
• UA University of Antwerp (www.uantwerpen.be)
• UCL Université catholique de Louvain (www.ucl.be)
• ULB Université libre de Bruxelles (www.ulb.be)
• ULG Université de Liège (www.ulg.ac.be)
• VITO Flemish Institute for Technological Research (www.vito.be)

International collaborations

• Forest Research, United Kingdom (www.forestresearch.gov.uk)
• Harvard Forest Harvard University's 3500 acre laboratory & classroom, Massachusetts
• Irstea National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture, France (www.irstea.fr)
• IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Sweden (www.ivl.se)
• Kobenhavns Universitet University of Copenhagen, Denmark (sl.life.ku.dk)
• RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, the Netherlands (www.rivm.nl)
• UACh Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile (www.uach.cl)
• Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke University, Canada (pages.usherbrooke.ca/mvellend)
• WUR Wageningen University, the Netherlands (www.fem.wur.nl)