Researcher
Pieter De Frenne
- Keywords:applied botany
- Disciplines:Forestry management and modelling, Global ecology, Modelling and simulation, Agricultural plant protection, Atmospheric sciences, challenges and pollution not elsewhere classified, Conservation and biodiversity, Terrestrial ecology, Community ecology, Plant ecology
Affiliations
- Department of Environment (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2018 → Today - Department of Plant production (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2015 → 31 Dec 2017 - Department of Forest and water management (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2007 → 30 Sep 2017
Projects
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- Novel light regimes and drought effects on temperate forest plant biodiversityFrom1 Sep 2024 → TodayFunding: Horizon Europe - European Research Council (ERC)
- MIRRA: Microclimate Real-time Remote ApplicationsFrom1 Dec 2023 → TodayFunding: Horizon Europe - European Research Council (ERC)
- Ghent University science in Rodeland in the spotlightFrom1 Jun 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - various
- FOrest cold and URban heat island effects on Climate Adaptation of biodiversity at different Spatial and Temporal scales - FOURCASTFrom1 Feb 2023 → TodayFunding: BRAIN-be(Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks)
- Quantifying feedbacks between forest structure, light, microclimate and carbon cycling using distributed photonic sensorsFrom1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Impact of drought on understorey communities in fragmented temperate forests in EuropeFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Grassification of understoreys in European temperate forests – Implications for tree regeneration and future canopy dynamicsFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- Shrub encroachment and microclimate dynamics in alpine ecosystemsFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- DIGItal Tools to help AgroForestry meet climate, biodiversity and farming sustainability goals: linking field and cloudFrom1 Jul 2022 → TodayFunding: Horizon Europe - Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
- Large solitary trees in the face of climate change: contributions to biodiversity and ecosystem functionsFrom1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
Publications
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- 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 - The combined effects of climate and canopy cover changes on understorey plants of the Hyrcanian forest biodiversity hotspot in northern Iran(2022)
Authors: Alireza Naqinezhad, Emiel De Lombaerde, Hamid Gholizadeh, Safaa Wasof, Michael P. Perring, Camille Meeussen, Pieter De Frenne
Pages: 1103 - 1118 - Unveil the unseen : using LiDAR to capture time‐lag dynamics in the herbaceous layer of European temperate forests(2022)
Authors: Jonathan Lenoir, Eva Gril, Sylvie Durrieu, Hélène Horen, Marianne Laslier, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Florian Zellweger, Samuel Alleaume, Boris Brasseur, Jérôme Buridant, et al.
Pages: 282 - 300 - Litter quality and stream physicochemical properties drive global invertebrate effects on instream litter decomposition(2022)
Authors: Kai Yue, Pieter De Frenne, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Verónica Ferreira, Dario A. Fornara, Qiqian Wu, Xiangyin Ni, Yan Peng, Dingyi Wang, Petr Hedenec, et al.
Pages: 2023 - 2038 - Tree species mixing can amplify microclimate offsets in young forest plantations(2022)
Authors: Shengmin Zhang, Dries Landuyt, Kris Verheyen, Pieter De Frenne
Pages: 1428 - 1439 - Competition mediates understorey species range shifts under climate change(2022)
Authors: Pieter Sanczuk, Emiel De Lombaerde, Stef Haesen, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Miska Luoto, Bas Van der Veken, Eric Van Beek, Martin Hermy, Pieter Vangansbeke, Pieter De Frenne
Pages: 1813 - 1825 - Impact of tree species diversity on throughfall deposition in a young temperate forest plantation(2022)
Authors: Shengmin Zhang, Pieter De Frenne, Dries Landuyt, Kris Verheyen
- Tree species mixing affects throughfall in a young temperate forest plantation(2022)
Authors: Shengmin Zhang, Kris Verheyen, Pieter De Frenne, Dries Landuyt
- Shade tree canopy cover affects coffee plant traits across elevations in coffee farms in southwest Ethiopia(2022)
Authors: Merkebu Getachew, Kris Verheyen, Kassaye Tolessa, Biruk Ayalew, Kristoffer Hylander, Ayco Tack, Weyessa Garedew, Marijn Bauters, Pascal Boeckx, Pieter De Frenne
- Different effects of warming treatments in forests versus hedgerows on the understorey plant Geum urbanum(2022)
Authors: Pablo Fernández-Fernández, Pieter Sanczuk, J. Brunet, J. Ehrlén, P.U+2010O. Hedwall, K. Hylander, Sanne Van Den Berge, Pieter De Frenne
Pages: 734 - 744
Linked dataset
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- Dataset for "Urban tree canopies drive human heat stress mitigation" published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (Creator)
- Dataset for De Pauw et al. (2024) Nutrient-demanding and thermophilous plants dominate urban forest edge vegetation across temperate Europe (Creator)
- Dataset for "Forests are chill: The interplay between thermal comfort and mental wellbeing" published in Landscape and Urban Planning (Creator)
- Urban forest microclimate gradients (Creator)
- Forest understorey phenology and spring temperature data in microclimate warming and illumination experiments PASTFORWARD & FORMICA (Creator)
- Tree species diversity affects litter decomposition via modification of the microenvironment (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)
- Dataset for "Forest structure and composition alleviate human thermal stress" published in Global Change Biology (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)