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Overview

Martin Worbes is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with particular attention to subfields including Forestry, Ecology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, notably African Botany and Ecology Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and subjects related to rabbits, including nutrition, reproduction, and health.

Among their recent scholarly contributions is a paper titled Mast fruiting in a large tropical African legume tree provides evidence for the nutrient resource limitation hypothesis, published in 2023 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

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Best Publications

  • One hundred years of tree-ring research in the tropics – a brief history and an outlook to future challenges

    Martin Worbes

  • Annual growth rings, rainfall‐dependent growth and long‐term growth patterns of tropical trees from the Caparo Forest Reserve in Venezuela

    Martin Worbes

  • How to Measure Growth Dynamics in Tropical Trees a Review

    Martin Worbes

  • Tree species composition and diversity gradients in white‐water forests across the Amazon Basin

    Florian Wittmann;Jochen Schöngart;Juan Carlos Montero;Thomas Motzer

  • Phenology and stem-growth periodicity of tree species in Amazonian floodplain forests

    Jochen Schöngart;Maria Teresa F. Piedade;Sabine Ludwigshausen;Viviana Horna

  • On the dynamics, floristic subdivision and geographical distribution of varzea forests in Central Amazonia

    Martin Worbes;Hans Klinge;Juan D. Revilla;Christopher Martius

  • Teleconnection between tree growth in the Amazonian floodplains and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation effect.

    Jochen Schöngart;Wolfgang J. Junk;Maria Teresa F. Piedade;José Marcio Ayres

  • Tree ring analysis reveals age structure, dynamics and wood production of a natural forest stand in Cameroon

    M. Worbes;R. Staschel;A. Roloff;W. J. Junk

  • Growth Rings, Increment and Age of Trees in Inundation Forests, Savannas and a Mountain Forest in the Neotropics

    Martin Worbes

  • Age and Long-term Growth of Trees in an Old-growth Tropical Rain Forest, Based on Analyses of Tree Rings and 14C1

    Esther Fichtler;Deborah A. Clark;Martin Worbes

  • Wood growth patterns of Macrolobium acaciifolium (Benth.) Benth. (Fabaceae) in Amazonian black-water and white-water floodplain forests.

    Jochen Schöngart;Maria Teresa F. Piedade;Florian Wittmann;Wolfgang J. Junk

  • Dating tropical trees by means of 14C from bomb tests

    Martin Worbes;Wolfgang J. Junk

  • Climatic signals in tree rings of Burkea africana and Pterocarpus angolensis from semiarid forests in Namibia

    Esther Fichtler;Valerie Trouet;Hans Beeckman;Pol Coppin

  • Climate–growth relationships of tropical tree species in West Africa and their potential for climate reconstruction

    Jochen Schöngart;Bettina Orthmann;Klaus Josef Hennenberg;Stefan Porembski

  • Annual growth rings and long-term growth patterns of mangrove trees from the Bragança peninsula, North Brazil

    M. Menezes;U. Berger;M. Worbes

  • Climate–growth relationships of the dominant tree species from semi-arid savanna woodland in Ethiopia

    Aster Gebrekirstos;Ralph Mitlöhner;Demel Teketay;Martin Worbes

  • Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

    Fabien H. Wagner;Bruno Hérault;Damien Bonal;Clément Stahl;Clément Stahl

  • Wood anatomical variables in tropical trees and their relation to site conditions and individual tree morphology

    Esther Fichtler;Martin Worbes

  • Assessing the potential of trees for afforestation of degraded landscapes in the Aral Sea Basin of Uzbekistan.

    A. Khamzina;J. P. A. Lamers;M. Worbes;E. Botman

  • How old are tropical trees? The persistence of a myth.

    Martin Worbes;Wolfgang Johannes Junk

  • Wood growth patterns of Macrolobium acaciifolium (Benth.) Benth. (Fabaceae) in Amazonian black-water and white-water

    August-Thienemann Strasse;Piedade J. Sch;M. Worbes

Frequent Co-Authors

Jochen Schöngart
Jochen Schöngart National Institute of Amazonian Research
Wolfgang J. Junk
Wolfgang J. Junk Max Planck Society
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade National Institute of Amazonian Research
John P. A. Lamers
John P. A. Lamers University of Bonn
Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christopher Martius
Christopher Martius Center for International Forestry Research, Germany
Kaiyu Guan
Kaiyu Guan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Clément Stahl
Clément Stahl INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Paul L. G. Vlek
Paul L. G. Vlek University of Bonn
Hans Beeckman
Hans Beeckman Royal Museum for Central Africa

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