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65
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1822
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37

Overview

Jörg Brunet is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with extensive work in subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and insect science.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, plant and animal studies, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest management and policy, and botany and plant ecology studies.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming, 2020, Science
  • sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots, 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe's temperate forest biome, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Plant diversity in hedgerows and road verges across Europe, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Microclimatic edge-to-interior gradients of European deciduous forests, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Jörg Brunet include:

  • Pieter De Frenne
  • Kris Verheyen
  • Jonathan Lenoir
  • Per-Ola Hedwall
  • Martin Diekmann

Publications are often found in venues such as:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Science
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Journal of Ecology

Best Publications

  • Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;David Anthony Coomes;Lander Baeten

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

    Florian Zellweger;Florian Zellweger;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir;Pieter Vangansbeke

  • MIGRATION OF VASCULAR PLANTS TO SECONDARY WOODLANDS IN SOUTHERN SWEDEN

    Jörg Brunet;Goddert Von Oheimb

  • Homogenization of forest plant communities and weakening of species–environment relationships via agricultural land use

    Mark Vellend;Kris Verheyen;Kathryn M. Flinn;Hans Jacquemyn

  • Replacing coniferous monocultures with mixed-species production stands: an assessment of the potential benefits for forest biodiversity in northern Europe

    Adam Felton;Matts Lindbladh;Jörg Brunet;Örjan Fritz

  • Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests

    Kris Verheyen;Lander Baeten;Pieter De Frenne;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann

  • Biodiversity in European beech forests - a review with recommendations for sustainable forest management

    Jörg Brunet;Örjan Fritz;Gustav Richnau

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

    Jonathan Lenoir;Bente Jessen Graae;Per Arild Aarrestad;Inger Greve Alsos

  • The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

    Lawrence N Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L L Hill;Samantha L L Hill

  • Current near-to-nature forest management effects on functional trait composition of saproxylic beetles in beech forests.

    Martin M. Gossner;Thibault Lachat;Jörg Brunet;Gunnar Isacsson

  • Land use effects on soil N, P, C and pH persist over 40-80 years of forest growth on agricultural soils

    Ursula Falkengren-Grerup;Dirk-Jan ten Brink;Jörg Brunet

  • Herb layer vegetation of south Swedish beech and oak forests—effects of management and soil acidity during one decade

    Jörg Brunet;Ursula Falkengren-Grerup;Germund Tyler

  • Seasonal drivers of understorey temperature buffering in temperate deciduous forests across Europe

    Florian Zellweger;Florian Zellweger;David Coomes;Jonathan Lenoir;Leen Depauw

  • On the use of weather data in ecological studies along altitudinal and latitudinal gradients

    Bente J. Graae;Pieter De Frenne;Annette Kolb;Jörg Brunet

  • Temperature effects on forest herbs assessed by warming and transplant experiments along a latitudinal gradient

    Pieter De Frenne;Jörg Brunet;Anna Shevtsova;Annette Kolb

  • Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales

    Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Lander Baeten;Dylan Craven;Pieter De Frenne

  • Climate change impacts on stand structure and competitive interactions in a southern Swedish spruce-beech forest

    Andreas Bolte;Lutz Hilbrig;Britt Maria Grundmann;Friederike Kampf

  • Alien plant invasions in European woodlands

    Viktoria Wagner;Milan Chytrý;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Jan Pergl

  • Ecosystem Services from Small Forest Patches in Agricultural Landscapes

    Guillaume Decocq;Emilie Andrieu;Jörg Brunet;Olivier Chabrerie

  • How climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies can threaten or enhance the biodiversity of production forests: Insights from Sweden

    A. Felton;L. Gustafsson;J.-M. Roberge;T. Ranius

Frequent Co-Authors

Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Martin Diekmann
Martin Diekmann University of Bremen
Guillaume Decocq
Guillaume Decocq University of Picardie Jules Verne
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
Sara A. O. Cousins
Sara A. O. Cousins Stockholm University
Monika Wulf
Monika Wulf University of Potsdam
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Martin Hermy
Martin Hermy KU Leuven
Bente J. Graae
Bente J. Graae Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Thilo Heinken
Thilo Heinken University of Potsdam

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