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Hans J. De Boeck

Hans J. De Boeck

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
5576
World Ranking
7327
National Ranking
93

Overview

Hans J. De Boeck is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium and has conducted extensive research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans important subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research topics include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Plant and animal studies, and Pasture and Agricultural Systems.

Hans J. De Boeck's recent publications highlight their active contribution to understanding ecosystem functioning under different environmental conditions and climate change effects. These papers include:

  • Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Photoperiod decelerates the advance of spring phenology of six deciduous tree species under climate warming, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Decreasing control of precipitation on grassland spring phenology in temperate China, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Ivan Nijs, Simon Reynaert, Erik Verbruggen, Yongshuo H. Fu, and Lingjuan Li, each contributing to multiple publications through ongoing research partnerships.

Hans J. De Boeck's work has been published repeatedly in various respected venues, showing a diverse engagement with different academic journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Best Publications

  • Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

    Claus Beier;Carl Beierkuhnlein;Thomas Wohlgemuth;Josep Penuelas

  • Variation in leaf flushing date influences autumnal senescence and next year’s flushing date in two temperate tree species

    Yongshuo S. H. Fu;Yongshuo S. H. Fu;Matteo Campioli;Yann Vitasse;Hans J. De Boeck

  • Whole‐system responses of experimental plant communities to climate extremes imposed in different seasons

    Hans J. De Boeck;Freja E. Dreesen;Ivan A. Janssens;Ivan Nijs;Ivan Nijs

  • Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change.

    Pubin Hong;Bernhard Schmid;Frederik De Laender;Nico Eisenhauer

  • Climatic characteristics of heat waves and their simulation in plant experiments

    Hans J. De Boeck;Freja E. Dreesen;Ivan A. Janssens;Ivan Nijs

  • Simulated heat waves affected alpine grassland only in combination with drought

    Hans J. De Boeck;Seraina Bassin;Maya Verlinden;Michaela Zeiter;Michaela Zeiter

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Summer heat and drought extremes trigger unexpected changes in productivity of a temperate annual/biannual plant community

    Freja E. Dreesen;Hans J. De Boeck;Ivan A. Janssens;Ivan Nijs;Ivan Nijs

  • Increased heat requirement for leaf flushing in temperate woody species over 1980-2012: effects of chilling, precipitation and insolation.

    Yongshuo H. Fu;Yongshuo H. Fu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Yann Vitasse;Hongfang Zhao

  • Mean annual precipitation predicts primary production resistance and resilience to extreme drought.

    Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens;Hans J. De Boeck;Nathan P. Lemoine;Pille Mänd

  • Patterns and drivers of biodiversity-stability relationships under climate extremes

    Hans J. De Boeck;Juliette M. G. Bloor;Juergen Kreyling;Johannes C. G. Ransijn

  • Global Change Experiments: Challenges and Opportunities

    Hans J. De Boeck;Sara Vicca;Jacques Roy;Ivan Nijs

  • Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world

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  • The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx)

    Aud Helen Halbritter Rechsteiner;Hans J. De Boeck;Amy Elizabeth Eycott;Amy Elizabeth Eycott;Sabine Reinsch

  • Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought

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  • Three times greater weight of daytime than of night-time temperature on leaf unfolding phenology in temperate trees

    Yongshuo H. Fu;Yongshuo H. Fu;Yongjie Liu;Hans J. De Boeck;Annette Menzel

  • Photoperiod decelerates the advance of spring phenology of six deciduous tree species under climate warming.

    Lin Meng;Yuyu Zhou;Lianhong Gu;Andrew D Richardson

  • Experiments to confront the environmental extremes of climate change

    Zachary E Kayler;Hans J De Boeck;Simone Fatichi;José M Grünzweig

  • Species richness effects on grassland recovery from drought depend on community productivity in a multisite experiment

    Juergen Kreyling;Jürgen Dengler;Julia Walter;Nikolay Velev

  • How do climate warming and species richness affect CO2 fluxes in experimental grasslands

    Hans J. De Boeck;Catherine M. H. M. Lemmens;Sara Vicca;Joke Van den Berge

  • Decreasing control of precipitation on grassland spring phenology in temperate China

    Yongshuo H. Fu;Yongshuo H. Fu;Xuancheng Zhou;Xinxi Li;Yaru Zhang

  • The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx)

    Aud Halbritter;Hans De Boeck;Vigdis Vandvik

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan Nijs
Ivan Nijs University of Antwerp
Yongshuo H. Fu
Yongshuo H. Fu Beijing Normal University
Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp
Anke Jentsch
Anke Jentsch University of Bayreuth
Juergen Kreyling
Juergen Kreyling University of Greifswald
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Reinhart Ceulemans
Reinhart Ceulemans University of Antwerp
Sara Vicca
Sara Vicca University of Antwerp
Jakob Zscheischler
Jakob Zscheischler Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Erik Verbruggen
Erik Verbruggen University of Antwerp

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