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Ecology and Evolution
Netherlands
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
113
Citations
55356
World Ranking
144
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Lourens Poorter is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research concentrates on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in the fields of nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, and ecology.

Their work covers a range of topics, chiefly focused on ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, forest ecology and management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, species distribution and climate change, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, and land use and ecosystem services.

Among Lourens Poorter's recent publications are:

  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery, 2021, Science
  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa, 2020, Ecology
  • Forest structure drives changes in light heterogeneity during tropical secondary forest succession, 2021, Journal of Ecology

The researcher has frequently published in several venues, including:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Nature Communications
  • Ecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Lourens Poorter has collaborated often with various colleagues, including:

  • Frans Bongers
  • Frank J. Sterck
  • Masha T. van der Sande
  • Jorge A. Meave
  • Ted R. Feldpausch

Best Publications

  • New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    N. Pérez-Harguindeguy;S. Díaz;E. Garnier;S. Lavorel

  • Corrigendum to: New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    N. Pérez-Harguindeguy;S. Díaz;E. Garnier;S. Lavorel

  • Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis.

    Hendrik Poorter;Ülo Niinemets;Lourens Poorter;Ian J. Wright

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

  • Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

    R J W Brienen;O L Phillips;T R Feldpausch;T R Feldpausch;E Gloor

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

    Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers;T. Mitchell Aide;Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano

  • Leaf traits are good predictors of plant performance across 53 rain forest species

    Lourens Poorter;Frans Bongers

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

    Georges Kunstler;Georges Kunstler;Daniel Falster;David A. Coomes;Francis Hui

  • Growth responses of 15 rain-forest tree species to a light gradient: the relative importance of morphological and physiological traits

    L. Poorter

  • ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

    L. Poorter;S. J. Wright;H. Paz;D. D. Ackerly

  • The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species.

    Lourens Poorter;Imole McDonald;Alfredo Alarcón;Esther Fichtler

  • Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

    Robin L. Chazdon;Robin L. Chazdon;Eben N. Broadbent;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Danaë M. A. Rozendaal;Frans Bongers

  • Functional traits and environmental filtering drive community assembly in a species-rich tropical system

    Edwin Lebrija-Trejos;Eduardo A. Pérez-García;Jorge A. Meave;Frans Bongers

  • ARCHITECTURE OF 54 MOIST-FOREST TREE SPECIES: TRAITS, TRADE-OFFS, AND FUNCTIONAL GROUPS

    Lourens Poorter;Laurent Bongers;Frans Bongers

  • Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

    L. Poorter;M. T. van der Sande;J. Thompson;E. J. M. M. Arets

  • Plasticity in leaf traits of 38 tropical tree species in response to light; relationships with light demand and adult stature.

    D. M. A. Rozendaal;V. H. Hurtado;L. Poorter

  • Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

    J.W. Ferry Slik;Gary Paoli;Krista L. McGuire;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Seedling root morphology and biomass allocation of 62 tropical tree species in relation to drought- and shade-tolerance

    Lars Markesteijn;Lourens Poorter

  • Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

    Yusuke Onoda;Mark Westoby;Peter B. Adler;Amy M.F. Choong

  • Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

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  • Plot Data from: "Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink."

    Roel J. W. Brienen;Oliver L. Phillips;Ted R. Feldpausch;Emanuel Gloor

Frequent Co-Authors

Frans Bongers
Frans Bongers Wageningen University & Research
Marielos Peña-Claros
Marielos Peña-Claros Wageningen University & Research
Christopher Baraloto
Christopher Baraloto Florida International University
Miguel Martínez-Ramos
Miguel Martínez-Ramos National Autonomous University of Mexico
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Marisol Toledo
Marisol Toledo Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University
Michiel van Breugel
Michiel van Breugel National University of Singapore
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds

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