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From BioCities to BioRegions and Back: Transforming Urban–Rural Relationships KU Leuven
Cities are hubs of money, power, and information. Characterised by high population density, numerous built structures, extensive impervious surfaces, decreased vegetative cover, and highly modified ecosystem services, cities or urban areas are surrounded by less-densely populated areas with less built-up space, referred to as rural areas (Wu 2014). Rural areas are perceived as a mosaic of land uses with various types of human intervention and ...
Supervised Classification of Tree Cover Classes in the Complex Mosaic Landscape of Eastern Rwanda KU Leuven
Protect old-growth forests in Europe now KU Leuven
A balancing act: Principles, criteria and indicator framework to operationalize social-ecological resilience of forests KU Leuven
Against a background of intensifying climate-induced disturbances, the need to enhance the resilience of forests and forest management is gaining urgency. In forest management, multiple trade-offs exist between different demands as well as across and within temporal and spatial scales. However, methods to assess resilience that consider these trade-offs are presently lacking. Here we propose a hierarchical framework of principles, criteria, and ...
Seeing the forest for the fractions – Comparing soil organic matter fractionation methods using molecular features after forest stand conversion KU Leuven
The molecular composition of soil organic matter (SOM) contains key information on the persistence of soil carbon (C) in relation to changes in vegetation and environmental factors. Depending on the ecosystem, analytical method and specific objectives, many SOM fractions and numerous fractionation schemes have been proposed to study soil C. However, the molecular composition and environmental significance of those different SOM fractions have ...
Seasonal variation of size-resolved aerosol fluxes in a Peri-urban deciduous broadleaved forest KU Leuven
Eddy covariance measurements of aerosol fluxes were performed above an oak-hornbeam forest in the Po Plain (Northern Italy), from February to May and from September to December 2019. Measurements aimed at assessing the influence of forest phenology and leaf presence/absence on the seasonal evolution of size-segregated aerosol fluxes. The size-resolved aerosol concentration in the range 0.006-10 μm was sampled with a 14-stage impactor (ELPI+, ...
The land use impacts of forestry and agricultural systems relative to natural vegetation; a fundamental energy dissipation approach KU Leuven
In agriculture and forestry the land use impacts that occur during production are important; including as necessary inputs for life cycle assessments. There are major differences in land use impacts between different forest management approaches and, in future, those forestry systems which deliver ecosystem services while having lower adverse land use impacts will be of greater value. Here we examine the land use impacts of seven contrasting ...