Forest Ecology and Management (forecoman)

Details

Hierarchy

Status

current

Date

Leader(s)

Bart Muys

Website

http://www.biw.kuleuven.be/lbh/lbnl/forecoman/eng/index.asp

Expertise

Geographical: Amazonia, Andes, Brazil, Central America, East Africa, Ethiopia, South East Asia, Southern Africa, Turkey, West Africa
Habitat: Afromontane forest, dry forest, paramo, semiarid habitats, temperate forest
Taxonomy: Boswellia papyrifera, Cordia africana, Dalbergia, Fagus sylvatica, Jatropha curcas, Juniperus excelsa, Lumbricus terrestris, Olea europaea, Quercus robur
Other: biodiversity, Decision support systems, ecology, Energy-water-carbon-massflow balance of forests, Erosion control by means of biota, forest management, geographic information systems, GIS, inventory, landscape architecture, mapping, mensuration, monitoring, remote sensing, restoration ecology of dryland forests, Sustainability indicators

Equipment: GPS, Fieldmap, Greenhouse, RC helicopter, Thermal camera, IR sensor, fish-eye

Address

Postcode

3001

City

Leuven

Longitude (decimal):

Latitude (decimal):

Telephone

Fax

+32-16-329760

Email

Title	Name	Role	Starting
Prof. Dr Ir	Muys, Bart	leader
Ir	Thijs, Koen	researcher	July 2008
Dr	Aerts, Raf	post-doc
Dr	Kint, Vincent	post-doc
	Achten, Wouter	PhD student
Ir	Maes, Wouter	PhD student
	Reubens, Bert	PhD student
	Trabucco, Antonio	PhD student
Ir	Valckx, Jan	collaborator
Ir	Aertsen, Wim	unknown

Name	Role	Ending
Bulteel, Hugo	unknown	January 2002
Deckers, Bart	unknown	January 2005
Garcia Quijano, Juan Francisco	unknown	December 2006
Heuvelmans, Griet	unknown	January 2005
Wagendorp, Tim	unknown	January 2005

Name	Institution	Relationship	Starting	Ending
Division Soil and Water Management	K.U.Leuven	collaboration

Title
Extinction debt as an indicator for the management of fragmented forest landscapes
Productivity and genetic diversity of Wild coffee (Coffea arabica) in its center of origin, southern Ethiopia, in relation to forest management and land use