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
BIOMASE: OPTIMIZING THE BIOMASS SUPPLY/DEMAND CHAIN FOR SUSTAINABLE CONVERSION TO ENERGY AND CHEMICALS
BIOTROPHA
Development of Belgian REDD Information Systems (BE REDD)
Dispersal and recruitment of African wild olive (Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata (Wall. ex G. Don) Cif.) in the highlands of Central-Tigray, Northern-Ethiopia
ENCOFOR - ENvironment and COmmunity based framework for designing afFORestation, reforestation and revegetation projects in the CDM
Extinction debt as an indicator for the management of fragmented forest landscapes
FORBIO - Assessment of the effects of tree species BIOdiversity on FORest ecosystem functioning
Forest and landscape modeling in the context of conservation and restoration of disturbed afromontane forest
FORSA - Forest resources modelling in the territory of ancient Sagalassos, South Anatolia, Turkey
JATROPHABILITY
KLIMOS Research platform Climate and Development
Predictive modelling of forest site quality on landscape and regional scale
Productivity and genetic diversity of Wild coffee (Coffea arabica) in its center of origin, southern Ethiopia, in relation to forest management and land use
SimForTree – A decision support tool for sustainable forest management based on ecophysiological analysis and simulation of the variability in tree development
Woody vegetation for integrated gully erosion control in Tigray, Ethiopia

Title
Bird communities as indicators of stand structural complexity in fragmented Afrotropical rainforests
ECOWORM - Erosion COntrol in arable land through the management of earthWORM communities
EDUBO Development of integrated indicators for the ecological aspects of sustainable forest management.
Forest rehabilitation through natural regeneration in Tigray, Ethiopia.
Hydrological modelling in the context of life cycle assessments of land use systems
Soil conservation management in Southeast Tanzania.
Sustainability assessment of alternatives for energy production from biomass in Flanders
Towards integrated catchment management in tropical mountain areas: the problem of sediment management, Paute catchment, Ecuador