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Overview

Koen Kramer is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable work in several related subfields.

Their subfields of study include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Plant Science

Kramer's research covers a range of main topics such as:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Their recent papers exemplify this range of interest and include the following publications:

  • Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global root traits (GRooT) database, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset, 2022, Scientific Data
  • The acquisitive-conservative axis of leaf trait variation emerges even in homogeneous environments, 2020, Annals of Botany

Kramer's work has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Scientific Data

Collaboration features prominently in Kramer's career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Vanessa Minden
  • Steven Jansen
  • Jens Kattge
  • Peter M. van Bodegom
  • Johannes H. C. Cornelissen

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • The importance of phenology for the evaluation of impact of climate change on growth of boreal, temperate and Mediterranean forests ecosystems: an overview.

    K. Kramer;I. Leinonen;D. Loustau

  • A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

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

  • 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

  • Selecting a model to predict the onset of growth of Fagus sylvatica

    Koen Kramer

  • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

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  • Modelling exploration of the future of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) under climate change—Range, abundance, genetic diversity and adaptive response

    Koen Kramer;Bernd Degen;Jutta Buschbom;Thomas Hickler

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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  • Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

    Ethan E. Butler;Abhirup Datta;Habacuc Flores-Moreno;Ming Chen

  • Phenotypic plasticity of the phenology of seven European tree species in relation to climatic warming

    K. Kramer

  • Plant development models

    I. Chuine;I. Garcia de Cortazar-Atauri;K. Kramer;H. Hänninen

  • Plant Development Models

    Isabelle Chuine;Koen Kramer;Heikki Hänninen

  • A modelling analysis of the effects of climatic warming on the probability of spring frost damage to tree species in the Netherlands and Germany

    K. Kramer

  • A methodology to derive global maps of leaf traits using remote sensing and climate data

    Alvaro Moreno-Martinez;Gustau Camps-Valls;Jens Kattge;Nathaniel P. Robinson

  • Models for supporting forest management in a changing environment

    L. Fontes;J.-D. Bontemps;H. Bugmann;M. Van Oijen

  • Are forest disturbances amplifying or canceling out climate change-induced productivity changes in European forests?

    Christopher P.O. Reyer;Stephen Bathgate;Kristina Blennow;Jose G. Borges

  • Evaluation of six process‐based forest growth models using eddy‐covariance measurements of CO2 and H2O fluxes at six forest sites in Europe

    K. Kramer;I. Leinonen;H. H. Bartelink;P. Berbigier

  • A framework for modelling the annual cycle of trees in boreal and temperate regions

    Heikki Hänninen;Koen Kramer

  • Global root traits (GRooT) database

    Nathaly R. Guerrero-Ramírez;Liesje Mommer;Grégoire T. Freschet;Colleen M. Iversen

  • Stemwood volume increment changes in European forests due to climate change—a simulation study with the EFISCEN model

    Gert-Jan Nabuurs;Gert-Jan Nabuurs;Ari Pussinen;Timo Karjalainen;Markus Erhard

  • Phenology and growth of European trees in relation to climate change

    K. Kramer

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Jansen
Steven Jansen University of Ulm
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Ülo Niinemets
Ülo Niinemets Estonian University of Life Sciences
Mart-Jan Schelhaas
Mart-Jan Schelhaas Wageningen University & Research
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Tianhua He
Tianhua He Curtin University
Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia
Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia Hasselt University
Yusuke Onoda
Yusuke Onoda Kyoto University
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Godefridus M. J. Mohren
Godefridus M. J. Mohren Wageningen University & Research

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