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Overview

Hans Beeckman is affiliated with the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium and has an extensive publication record in the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Organic Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

Their research covers several main topics including Forest ecology and management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Wood and Agarwood Research, Tree-ring climate responses, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Plant and animal studies.

Hans Beeckman has contributed to multiple papers, several of which have appeared in high-impact journals. Notable publications include:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests, 2020, Nature
  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests, 2020, Science
  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests, 2021, Nature
  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Wannes Hubau
  • Jan Van den Bulcke
  • Nils Bourland
  • Tom De Mil
  • Victor Deklerck

Hans Beeckman frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, Plant Methods, Forests, and Nature.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Oaks, tree-rings and wooden cultural heritage: a review of the main characteristics and applications of oak dendrochronology in Europe

    Kristof Haneca;Katarina Čufar;Hans Beeckman

  • Influence of drought on tree rings and tracheid features of Pinus nigra and Pinus sylvestris in a mesic Mediterranean forest

    Dario Martin-Benito;Hans Beeckman;Isabel Cañellas

  • Climatic signals in tree rings of Burkea africana and Pterocarpus angolensis from semiarid forests in Namibia

    Esther Fichtler;Valerie Trouet;Hans Beeckman;Pol Coppin

  • First archaeological evidence of banana cultivation in central Africa during the third millennium before present

    Christophe Mbida C.M. Mindzie;Hughes H. Doutrelepont;Luc Vrydaghs;Rony R.L. Swennen

  • Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

    J. F. Bastin;Nicolas Barbier;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;A. Fayolle

  • Annual cyclicity in high‐resolution stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios in the wood of the mangrove tree Rhizophora mucronata

    Anouk Verheyden;Gerd Helle;Gerard H. Schleser;Frank Dehairs

  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability

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  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Growth rings, growth ring formation and age determination in the mangrove Rhizophora mucronata.

    Anouk Verheyden;James Gitundu Kairo;Hans Beeckman;Nico Koedam

  • Conventional tree height–diameter relationships significantly overestimate aboveground carbon stocks in the Central Congo Basin

    Elizabeth Kearsley;Elizabeth Kearsley;Thales de Haulleville;Thales de Haulleville;Koen Hufkens;Alidé Kidimbu

  • Herb layer changes (1954-2000) related to the conversion of coppice-with-standards forest and soil acidification

    Lander Baeten;Bram Bauwens;An De Schrijver;Luc De Keersmaeker

  • Tyloses and Phenolic Deposits in Xylem Vessels Impede Water Transport in Low-Lignin Transgenic Poplars: A Study by Cryo-Fluorescence Microscopy

    Peter Kitin;Steven L. Voelker;Frederick C. Meinzer;Hans Beeckman

  • Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

    Fabien H. Wagner;Bruno Hérault;Damien Bonal;Clément Stahl;Clément Stahl

  • Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

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  • High-resolution time series of vessel density in Kenyan mangrove trees reveal a link with climate

    Anouk Verheyden;Fjo De Ridder;Nele Schmitz;Hans Beeckman

  • WOOD ANATOMY AND TRAIT-BASED ECOLOGY

    Hans Beeckman

  • A safe hydraulic architecture as wood anatomical explanation for the difference in distribution of the mangroves Avicennia and Rhizophora

    Elisabeth M R Robert;Nico Koedam;Hans Beeckman;Nele Schmitz

  • Annual growth ring patterns in Brachystegia spiciformis reveal influence of precipitation on tree growth

    Valérie Trouet;Pol Coppin;Hans Beeckman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Louis Doucet
Jean-Louis Doucet Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Hans Verbeeck
Hans Verbeeck Ghent University
Olivier J. Hardy
Olivier J. Hardy Université Libre de Bruxelles
Pascal Boeckx
Pascal Boeckx Ghent University
Koen Hufkens
Koen Hufkens Ghent University
Jan Bogaert
Jan Bogaert KU Leuven
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Jan Nyssen
Jan Nyssen Ghent University
Dries Huygens
Dries Huygens Ghent University
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London

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