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Dominik Seidel is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences.

Seidel's work spans several specialized subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, insect science, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, and ecology.

Main topics of research conducted by Seidel include:

  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Remote sensing and LiDAR applications
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Forest management and policy

Seidel has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Remote Sensing
  • Trees Forests and People
  • Trees
  • New Forests

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Seidel are:

  • "Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Predicting Tree Species From 3D Laser Scanning Point Clouds Using Deep Learning," 2021, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "Enhancing the structural diversity between forest patches-A concept and real-world experiment to study biodiversity, multifunctionality and forest resilience across spatial scales," 2022, Global Change Biology
  • "Deriving Stand Structural Complexity from Airborne Laser Scanning Data-What Does It Tell Us about a Forest?," 2020, Remote Sensing
  • "Mother trees, altruistic fungi, and the perils of plant personification," 2023, Trends in Plant Science

Seidel collaborates frequently with the following researchers:

  • Christian Ammer
  • Peter Annighöfer
  • Martin Ehbrecht
  • Bernhard Schuldt
  • Liane Neudam

Best Publications

  • Combining high biodiversity with high yields in tropical agroforests

    Yann Clough;Jan Barkmann;Jana Juhrbandt;Michael Kessler

  • Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity.

    Martin Ehbrecht;Dominik Seidel;Peter Annighöfer;Holger Kreft

  • Quantifying stand structural complexity and its relationship with forest management, tree species diversity and microclimate

    Martin Ehbrecht;Peter Schall;Christian Ammer;Dominik Seidel

  • Tree diversity and environmental context predict herb species richness and cover in Germany's largest connected deciduous forest

    Elke A. Vockenhuber;Christoph Scherber;Christina Langenbruch;Meik Meißner

  • Crown modeling by terrestrial laser scanning as an approach to assess the effect of aboveground intra- and interspecific competition on tree growth

    Jérôme Metz;Dominik Seidel;Peter Schall;Dina Scheffer

  • Analyzing forest canopies with ground-based laser scanning: A comparison with hemispherical photography

    Dominik Seidel;Stefan Fleck;Christoph Leuschner

  • Crown plasticity in mixed forests—Quantifying asymmetry as a measure of competition using terrestrial laser scanning

    Dominik Seidel;Christoph Leuschner;Annika Müller;Benjamin Krause

  • Effects of structural heterogeneity on the diurnal temperature range in temperate forest ecosystems

    Martin Ehbrecht;Peter Schall;Christian Ammer;Markus Fischer

  • Effective number of layers: A new measure for quantifying three-dimensional stand structure based on sampling with terrestrial LiDAR

    Martin Ehbrecht;Peter Schall;Julia Juchheim;Christian Ammer

  • Key ecological research questions for Central European forests

    Christian Ammer;Andreas Fichtner;Anton Fischer;Martin M. Gossner

  • The relationship between tree species richness, canopy space exploration and productivity in a temperate broad-leaf mixed forest

    Dominik Seidel;Christoph Leuschner;Christoph Scherber;Friderike Beyer

  • Review of ground-based methods to measure the distribution of biomass in forest canopies

    Dominik Seidel;Stefan Fleck;Christoph Leuschner;Tom Hammett

  • A holistic approach to determine tree structural complexity based on laser scanning data and fractal analysis.

    Dominik Seidel

  • On the exposure of hemispherical photographs in forests

    P. Beckschäfer;D. Seidel;C. Kleinn;J. Xu

  • Mixed-species tree plantings enhance structural complexity in oil palm plantations

    Delphine Clara Zemp;Martin Ehbrecht;Dominik Seidel;Christian Ammer

  • 3D-laser scanning: A non-destructive method for studying above- ground biomass and growth of juvenile trees

    Dominik Seidel;Friderike Beyer;Dietrich Hertel;Stefan Fleck

  • Mechanical abrasion, and not competition for light, is the dominant canopy interaction in a temperate mixed forest

    Peter Hajek;Dominik Seidel;Christoph Leuschner

  • Climate Responses of Aboveground Productivity and Allocation in Fagus sylvatica: A Transect Study in Mature Forests

    Hilmar Müller-Haubold;Dietrich Hertel;Dominik Seidel;Florian Knutzen

  • Enhancing the structural diversity between forest patches—A concept and real‐world experiment to study biodiversity, multifunctionality and forest resilience across spatial scales

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  • How management intensity and neighborhood composition affect the structure of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) trees

    Julia Juchheim;Peter Annighöfer;Christian Ammer;Kim Calders;Kim Calders

  • Ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic soil fungal biomass are driven by different factors and vary among broadleaf and coniferous temperate forests

    Abdallah Awad;Andrzej Majcherczyk;Peter Schall;Kristina Schröter

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Ammer
Christian Ammer University of Göttingen
Peter Schall
Peter Schall University of Göttingen
Christoph Leuschner
Christoph Leuschner University of Göttingen
Klaus J. Puettmann
Klaus J. Puettmann Oregon State University
Holger Kreft
Holger Kreft University of Göttingen
Dietrich Hertel
Dietrich Hertel University of Göttingen
Dirk Hölscher
Dirk Hölscher University of Göttingen
Alexander Knohl
Alexander Knohl University of Göttingen
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Damayanti Buchori
Damayanti Buchori IPB University

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