Wageningen UR - Wageningen University - Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

The Forest Ecology and Forest Management (FEM) Group of Wageningen University deals with fundamental and applied ecological issues such as forest ecosystem dynamics, environmental influences on tree growth and forest development, and sustainable silvicultural systems.
Based on sound understanding of growth and development of forest ecosystems, and of the ecological processes underlying forest ecosystem dynamics in relation to species properties and environmental conditions, guidelines for sustainable forest resource management are derived.

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Research

The FEM group is part of the Centre for Ecosystem Studies, in which groups of Wageningen University and teams of the Alterra research institute cooperate.

In 2005 the DendroLab at FEM-Wageningen University is established by Ute Sass-Klaassen. It is built up with the support of the NWO MEERVOUD project. Research on Dendrochronology and Quantitative Wood Anatomy (QWA) is conducted on different topics related to Forest Ecology and Forest Management. Since 2009 the DendroLab has its own web pages: www.dendrolab.wur.nl

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DendroLab

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Education

The FEM group designed for her students the Tree Database. This database focuses on tree and shrub species in Dutch woodlands and provides fact sheets with comprehensive information on morphology, (aut)ecology, management, wood and non-timber products. The included images show not only the tree as a whole plant but also it characteristics in detail.

Tree Databse

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