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Hans Verbeeck

Hans Verbeeck

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
65
Citations
20197
World Ranking
1758
National Ranking
21

Overview

Hans Verbeeck is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium, contributing extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research output spans a significant breadth within these domains, focusing notably on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's main research topics include Forest ecology and management, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant and animal studies, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

Hans Verbeeck has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Kim Calders, Félicien Meunier, Marijn Bauters, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, and Pascal Boeckx. These collaborations have supported the dissemination of research within various related disciplines.

Publications by Hans Verbeeck have appeared in multiple venues, with higher concentrations in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Remote Sensing of Environment, Biogeosciences, Remote Sensing, and Forest Ecology and Management.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hans Verbeeck include:

  • Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations, 2021, Earth system science data
  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests, 2021, Nature
  • Non-destructive estimation of individual tree biomass: Allometric models, terrestrial and UAV laser scanning, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment

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

  • Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis

    Andrew D. Richardson;Ryan S. Anderson;M. Altaf Arain;Alan G. Barr

  • An integrated pan‐tropical biomass map using multiple reference datasets

    Valerio Avitabile;Martin Herold;Gerard B.M. Heuvelink;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities.

    Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;William R. L. Anderegg;Bradley O. Christoffersen

  • Temporal and among-site variability of inherent water-use efficiency at the ecosystem level

    C. Beer;P. Ciais;M. Reichstein;D. Baldocchi

  • Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes.

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Josep Peñuelas

  • A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Kevin Schaefer;Christopher R. Schwalm;Chris Williams;M. Altaf Arain

  • Terrestrial laser scanning in forest ecology: Expanding the horizon

    Kim Calders;Jennifer Adams;John Armston;Harm Bartholomeus

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • 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

  • Improving land surface models with FLUXNET data

    Mathew Williams;Andrew D. Richardson;M. Reichstein;Paul C. Stoy

  • The European carbon balance. Part 3: forests

    Sebsatiaan Luyssaert;Philippe Ciais;SL Piao;E-D Schulze

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

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  • Forest resilience and tipping points at different spatio-temporal scales: approaches and challenges

    Christopher P. O. Reyer;Niels Brouwers;Anja Rammig;Barry W. Brook

  • The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

    Maurizio Santoro;Oliver Cartus;Nuno Carvalhais;Nuno Carvalhais;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • 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

  • A model‐data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Ryan S. Anderson

  • Terrestrial biosphere model performance for inter‐annual variability of land‐atmosphere CO2 exchange

    T.F. Keenan;Ian Baker;Alan Barr;Philippe Ciais

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data. Part 1: Coupling footprint analyses with flux data quality assessment to evaluate sites in forest ecosystems

    Mathias Göckede;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet;Mika Aurela

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Boeckx
Pascal Boeckx Ghent University
Kathy Steppe
Kathy Steppe Ghent University
Hans Beeckman
Hans Beeckman Royal Museum for Central Africa
Kim Calders
Kim Calders Ghent University
Dries Huygens
Dries Huygens Ghent University
Koen Hufkens
Koen Hufkens Ghent University
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Michael C. Dietze
Michael C. Dietze Boston University
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Ian Baker
Ian Baker Colorado State University

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