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Lander Baeten

Lander Baeten

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
50
Citations
11462
World Ranking
3793
National Ranking
52

Overview

Lander Baeten is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium, contributing extensively to research in environmental and biological sciences. Their work spans a variety of topics primarily focused on forest ecology and conservation.

Their recent publications include:

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming, 2020, Science
  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!, 2021, Conservation Letters
  • Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies, 2020, Ecology Letters
  • Maintaining forest cover to enhance temperature buffering under future climate change, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe's temperate forest biome, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frequent co-authors of Baeten include:

  • Kris Verheyen
  • Pieter De Frenne
  • Markus Bernhardt-Römermann
  • Bogdan Jaroszewicz
  • Luc Lens

The main venues where Baeten has published frequently are:

  • Science
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Journal of Ecology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Vegetation Science

Baeten's primary fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, subfields that Baeten focuses on are:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Insect Science
  • Ecological Modeling

Key topics covered in Baeten's research are:

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

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

  • Global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time

    Mark Vellend;Lander Baeten;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context

    Sophia Ratcliffe;Christian Wirth;Christian Wirth;Tommaso Jucker;Tommaso Jucker;Fons van der Plas

  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!

    Christian Messier;Christian Messier;Jürgen Bauhus;Rita Sousa-Silva;Harald Auge

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

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

  • Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations

    Kris Verheyen;Margot Vanhellemont;Harald Auge;Lander Baeten

  • Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

    Fons van der Plas;Pete Manning;Santiago Soliveres;Eric Allan

  • 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

  • Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

    Fons Van der Plas;Peter Manning;Eric Allan;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

  • 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

  • Plant Biodiversity Change Across Scales During the Anthropocene.

    Mark Vellend;Lander Baeten;Antoine Becker-Scarpitta;Véronique Boucher-Lalonde

  • A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests

    Lander Baeten;Kris Verheyen;Christian Wirth;Helge Bruelheide

  • Global environmental change effects on ecosystems: the importance of land-use legacies.

    Michael P. Perring;Michael P. Perring;Pieter De Frenne;Lander Baeten;Sybryn L. Maes

  • Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies.

    James I. Watling;Victor Arroyo‐Rodríguez;Marion Pfeifer;Lander Baeten

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

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

  • Management driven changes (1967–2005) in soil acidity and the understorey plant community following conversion of a coppice-with-standards forest

    Hans Van Calster;Lander Baeten;An De Schrijver;Luc De Keersmaeker

  • Tree diversity is key for promoting the diversity and abundance of forest-associated taxa in Europe

    Evy Ampoorter;Luc Barbaro;Hervé Jactel;Lander Baeten;Lander Baeten

  • 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

  • Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies.

    Michael P. Perring;Michael P. Perring;Markus Bernhardt‐Römermann;Lander Baeten;Gabriele Midolo;Gabriele Midolo

  • Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny.

    Mark Vellend;Maria Dornelas;Lander Baeten;Robin Beauséjour

  • Diverging effects of overstorey conversion scenarios on the understorey vegetation in a former coppice-with-standards forest

    Hans Van Calster;Lander Baeten;Kris Verheyen;Luc De Keersmaeker

Frequent Co-Authors

Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Martin Hermy
Martin Hermy KU Leuven
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
An De Schrijver
An De Schrijver Ghent University
Jörg Brunet
Jörg Brunet Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Michael P. Perring
Michael P. Perring Ghent University
Dries Bonte
Dries Bonte Ghent University
Bogdan Jaroszewicz
Bogdan Jaroszewicz University of Warsaw
Martin Kopecký
Martin Kopecký Czech Academy of Sciences
Guillaume Decocq
Guillaume Decocq University of Picardie Jules Verne

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