Researcher
Karen De Pauw
- Keywords:microclimate, forest ecology, biodiversity, urban ecology
- Disciplines:Community ecology, Global ecology, Plant ecology
Affiliations
- Department of Environment (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2018 → Today
Projects
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- Climate change in cities: impact of the urban heat island on microclimate, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in urban forestsFrom1 Nov 2019 → 31 Oct 2023Funding: FWO fellowships
- Climate change in cities: impact of the urban heat island on microclimate, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in urban forests.From1 Oct 2019 → 1 Nov 2019Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Microclimatic buffering of plant responses to macroclimate warming in temperate forestsFrom1 Feb 2018 → 31 Jan 2023Funding: H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
Publications
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- Nutrient‐demanding and thermophilous plants dominate urban forest‐edge vegetation across temperate Europe(2024)
Authors: Karen De Pauw, Leen Depauw, Kim Calders, Sara A. O. Cousins, Guillaume Decocq, Emiel De Lombaerde, Martin Diekmann, David Frey, Jonathan Lenoir, Camille Meeussen, et al.
- Using warming tolerances to predict understory plant responses to climate change(2024)
Authors: Liping Wei, Pieter Sanczuk, Karen De Pauw, Maria Mercedes Caron, Federico Selvi, Per‐Ola Hedwall, Jörg Brunet, Sara A. O. Cousins, Jan Plue, Fabien Spicher, et al.
- Effects of experimental warming at the microhabitat scale on oak leaf traits and insect herbivory across a contrasting environmental gradient(2024)
Authors: Xoaquín Moreira, Luis Abdala‐Roberts, Beatriz Lago‐Núñez, Ana Cao, Karen De Pauw, Annelore De Ro, Cristina Gasperini, Per‐Ola Hedwall, Giovanni Iacopetti, Jonathan Lenoir, et al.
- Forest understorey flowering phenology responses to experimental warming and illumination(2024)
Authors: Eline Lorer, Kris Verheyen, Haben Blondeel, Karen De Pauw, Pieter Sanczuk, Pieter De Frenne, Dries Landuyt
Pages: 1476 - 1491 - Trait–micro‐environment relationships of forest herb communities across Europe(2024)
Authors: Sanne Govaert, Camille Meeussen, Thomas Vanneste, Kurt Bollmann, Jörg Brunet, Kim Calders, Sara A. O. Cousins, Karen De Pauw, Martin Diekmann, Bente J. Graae, et al.
Pages: 286 - 302 - Microclimate and forest density drive plant population dynamics under climate change(2023)
Authors: Pieter Sanczuk, Karen De Pauw, Emiel De Lombaerde, Miska Luoto, Camille Meeussen, Sanne Govaert, Thomas Vanneste, Leen Depauw, Jörg Brunet, Sara A. O. Cousins, et al.
Pages: 840 - 847 - Urban forest microclimates across temperate Europe are shaped by deep edge effects and forest structure(2023)
Authors: Karen De Pauw, Leen Depauw, Kim Calders, Steven Caluwaerts, Sara A.O. Cousins, Emiel De Lombaerde, Martin Diekmann, David Frey, Jonathan Lenoir, Camille Meeussen, et al.
- Even small forest patches can help fight climate change!(2022)
Authors: Leen Depauw, Camille Meeussen, Emiel De Lombaerde, Karen De Pauw, Kris Verheyen, Pieter De Frenne
- Historical forest microclimates(2022)
Authors: Emiel De Lombaerde, Karen De Pauw, Pallieter De Smedt, Jonathan Lenoir, Camille Meeussen, Thomas Vanneste, Kris Verheyen, Florian Zellweger, Pieter De Frenne, Guillaume Decocq
Pages: 259 - 271 - Initial oak regeneration responses to experimental warming along microclimatic and macroclimatic gradients(2022)
Authors: Camille Meeussen, Karen De Pauw, Pieter Sanczuk, J. Brunet, S. A. O. Cousins, C. Gasperini, P.U+2010O. Hedwall, G. Iacopetti, J. Lenoir, J. Plue, et al.
Pages: 745 - 757
Linked dataset
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- Dataset for De Pauw et al. (2024) Nutrient-demanding and thermophilous plants dominate urban forest edge vegetation across temperate Europe (Creator)
- Urban forest microclimate gradients (Creator)
- Forest understorey phenology and spring temperature data in microclimate warming and illumination experiments PASTFORWARD & FORMICA (Creator)
- Govaert et al GEB Trait–micro‐environment relationships of forest herb communities across Europe (Creator)
- Data on litter decomposition experiment in six urban forests (Creator)
- Trait data 2019 and 2020 experimental microclimate warming and light addition across Europe (FORMICA). Data used for the analysis in 'Forest understorey communities respond strongly to light in interaction with forest structure but not to microclimate warming' (De Pauw et al., New Phytologist, 2021) (Creator)
- "Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of forest understorey plants in European forest edges" (Creator)