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Overview

Frank J. Sterck is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with specific attention to subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, plant science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The core topics of Frank J. Sterck's work include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, tree-ring climate responses, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions.

Among their recent scientific publications are:

  • Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Why trees grow at night (2021, New Phytologist)
  • Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees (2021, Ecology Letters)
  • The role of fine-root mass, specific root length and life span in tree performance: A whole-tree exploration (2020, Functional Ecology)
  • Determinants of legacy effects in pine trees - implications from an irrigation-stop experiment (2020, New Phytologist)

Frank J. Sterck frequently publishes in the following scientific journals:

  • New Phytologist
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Functional Ecology
  • Ecology Letters
  • Tree Physiology

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as Lourens Poorter, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Leo Goudzwaard, José A. Medina-Vega, and Mariet M. Hefting.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species.

    Lourens Poorter;Imole McDonald;Alfredo Alarcón;Esther Fichtler

  • Towards a multidimensional root trait framework: a tree root review

    Monique Weemstra;Liesje Mommer;Eric J. W. Visser;Jasper van Ruijven

  • A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

    Maxime Cailleret;Steven Jansen;Elisabeth M. R. Robert;Elisabeth M. R. Robert;Lucía Desoto

  • Hydraulic adjustment of Scots pine across Europe

    Jordi Martinez-Vilalta;Jordi Martinez-Vilalta;Hervé Cochard;Hervé Cochard;Maurizia Mencuccini;Frank Sterck

  • Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes.

    Tommaso Jucker;John Caspersen;Jérôme Chave;Cécile Antin;Cécile Antin

  • Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees

    Lucía DeSoto;Lucía DeSoto;Maxime Cailleret;Maxime Cailleret;Maxime Cailleret;Frank Sterck;Steven Jansen

  • Diel growth dynamics in tree stems: linking anatomy and ecophysiology.

    Kathy Steppe;Frank Sterck;Annie Deslauriers

  • Wood mechanics, allometry, and life‐history variation in a tropical rain forest tree community

    H. A. Van Gelder;L. Poorter;F. J. Sterck

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance photosynthesis, water use efficiency, and growth of frankincense seedlings under pulsed water availability conditions

    Emiru Birhane;Frank J. Sterck;Masresha Fetene;Frans Bongers

  • Functional traits determine trade-offs and niches in a tropical forest community

    Frank Sterck;Lars Markesteijn;Feike Schieving;Lourens Poorter

  • Non-structural carbohydrates in woody plants compared among laboratories.

    Audrey G. Quentin;Audrey G. Quentin;Elizabeth A. Pinkard;Michael G. Ryan;Michael G. Ryan;David T. Tissue

  • Beyond the regeneration phase: differentiation of height–light trajectories among tropical tree species

    Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers;Frank J. Sterck;Hannsjörg Wöll

  • ARCHITECTURE OF 53 RAIN FOREST TREE SPECIES DIFFERING IN ADULT STATURE AND SHADE TOLERANCE

    Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers;Frank J. Sterck;Hannsjörg Wöll

  • Leaf traits determine the growth-survival trade-off across rain forest tree species.

    F. J. Sterck;L. Poorter;F. Schieving

  • Why trees grow at night.

    Roman Zweifel;Frank Sterck;Sabine Braun;Nina Buchmann

  • Effects of livestock exclusion on tree regeneration in church forests of Ethiopia

    Alemayehu Wassie;Frank J. Sterck;Demel Teketay;Frans Bongers

  • Stomatal regulation by microclimate and tree water relations: interpreting ecophysiological field data with a hydraulic plant model.

    Roman Franz Zweifel;Roman Franz Zweifel;Kathy Steppe;Frank J. Sterck

  • Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees

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  • BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

    Daniel S. Falster;Remko A. Duursma;Masae I. Ishihara;Diego R. Barneche

  • Tropical forests and global change: filling knowledge gaps

    Pieter A. Zuidema;Patrick J. Baker;Peter Groenendijk;Peter Schippers

  • Water-use strategies of six co-existing Mediterranean woody species during a summer drought

    José Luis Quero;José Luis Quero;Franciscus Johannes Sterck;Jordi Martínez-Vilalta;Rafael Villar

  • ONTOGENETIC CHANGES IN SIZE, ALLOMETRY, AND MECHANICAL DESIGN OF TROPICAL RAIN FOREST TREES

    Frank J. Sterck;Frans Bongers

  • Crown development in tropical rain forest trees: patterns with tree height and light availability

    Frank J. Sterck;Frans Bongers

Frequent Co-Authors

Frans Bongers
Frans Bongers Wageningen University & Research
Lourens Poorter
Lourens Poorter Wageningen University & Research
Godefridus M. J. Mohren
Godefridus M. J. Mohren Wageningen University & Research
Roman Zweifel
Roman Zweifel Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Pieter A. Zuidema
Pieter A. Zuidema Wageningen University & Research
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta Autonomous University of Barcelona
Hervé Cochard
Hervé Cochard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Niels P. R. Anten
Niels P. R. Anten Wageningen University & Research
Thomas W. Kuyper
Thomas W. Kuyper Wageningen University & Research
Herbert H. T. Prins
Herbert H. T. Prins Wageningen University & Research

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