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Quentin Ponette is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Insect Science, and Soil Science.

The core topics of Ponette's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Forest Management and Policy, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

Ponette has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in notable journals. The leading publication venues for their work are:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Global Change Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Ecology

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ponette are:

  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests! (2021, Conservation Letters)
  • The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe (2020, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Species mixing reduces drought susceptibility of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and oak (Quercus robur L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) - Site water supply and fertility modify the mixing effect (2020, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Microclimatic edge-to-interior gradients of European deciduous forests (2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)
  • Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of understorey plants respond differently to environmental conditions in European forest edges (2021, Journal of Ecology)

Ponette frequently collaborates with several researchers in the field, including:

  • Kris Verheyen
  • Bart Muys
  • Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
  • Hervé Jactel
  • Pieter De Frenne

Best Publications

  • Tree mineral nutrition is deteriorating in Europe.

    Mathieu Jonard;Alfred Fürst;Arne Verstraeten;Anne Thimonier

  • Growth and yield of mixed versus pure stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) analysed along a productivity gradient through Europe

    H. Pretzsch;M. del Río;Ch. Ammer;A. Avdagic

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

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

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

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

    Kris Verheyen;Margot Vanhellemont;Harald Auge;Lander Baeten

  • The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe

    M. Pardos;M. Pardos;M. del Río;M. del Río;H. Pretzsch;H. Jactel

  • Effects of crown architecture and stand structure on light absorption in mixed and monospecific Fagus sylvatica and Pinus sylvestris forests along a productivity and climate gradient through Europe

    David Ian Forrester;David Ian Forrester;Christian Ammer;Peter J. Annighöfer;Ignacio Barbeito

  • Species interactions increase the temporal stability of community productivity in Pinus sylvestris-Fagus sylvatica mixtures across Europe

    Miren del Río;Miren del Río;Hans Pretzsch;Ricardo Ruíz-Peinado;Ricardo Ruíz-Peinado;Evy Ampoorter

  • European Mixed Forests: definition and research perspectives

    Andres Bravo-Oviedo;Hans Pretzsch;Christian Ammer;Ernesto Andenmatten

  • Carbon stock in rubber tree plantations in Western Ghana and Mato Grosso (Brazil)

    Jean-Baptiste Wauters;S. Coudert;E. Grallien;Mathieu Jonard

  • Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments

    Jake J. Grossman;Margot Vanhellemont;Nadia Barsoum;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Mixing of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) enhances structural heterogeneity, and the effect increases with water availability

    H. Pretzsch;M. del Río;G. Schütze;Ch. Ammer

  • Adapting forest management to climate change in Europe: Linking perceptions to adaptive responses

    Rita Sousa-Silva;Bruno Verbist;Ângela Lomba;Peter Valent

  • Knowledge gaps about mixed forests: What do European forest managers want to know and what answers can science provide?

    Lluís Coll;Lluís Coll;Aitor Ameztegui;Catherine Collet;Magnus Löf

  • A million and more trees for science

    Alain Paquette;Andy Hector;Bastien Castagneyrol;Margot Vanhellemont

  • Species mixing reduces drought susceptibility of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and oak (Quercus robur L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) – Site water supply and fertility modify the mixing effect

    M. Steckel;M. del Río;M. del Río;M. Heym;J. Aldea

  • Relationships between forest tree species, stand production and stand nutrient amount

    Laurent Augusto;Jacques Ranger;Quentin Ponette;Maurice Rapp

  • Influence of species and rain event characteristics on stemflow volume in a temperate mixed oak–beech stand

    Frédéric André;Mathieu Jonard;Quentin Ponette

  • Comparison of chemical composition of soil solutions collected by zero-tension plate lysimeters with those from ceramic-cup lysimeters in a forest soil

    Renato Marques;Jacques Ranger;Dominique Gelhaye;Benoit Pollier

  • Stand growth and structure of mixed-species and monospecific stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and oak (Q. robur L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) analysed along a productivity gradient through Europe

    H. Pretzsch;M. Steckel;M. Heym;P. Biber

  • Ontogeny partly explains the apparent heterogeneity of published biomass equations for Fagus sylvatica in central Europe

    Astrid Genet;Astrid Genet;Holger Wernsdorfer;Holger Wernsdorfer;Holger Wernsdorfer;Mathieu Jonard;Hans Pretzsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Hans Pretzsch
Hans Pretzsch Technical University of Munich
Andrés Bravo-Oviedo
Andrés Bravo-Oviedo Spanish National Research Council
Magnus Löf
Magnus Löf Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Lluís Coll
Lluís Coll University of Lleida
Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado
Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado Spanish National Research Council
Tzvetan Zlatanov
Tzvetan Zlatanov Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Bart Muys
Bart Muys KU Leuven
Miroslav Svoboda
Miroslav Svoboda Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Jacques Ranger
Jacques Ranger INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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