Kris Verheyen

Research interests

Publications

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

  Conservation Letters · 2021 · 10.1111/conl.12829

• Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

  Science · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba6880

• Seasonal drivers of understorey temperature buffering in temperate deciduous forests across Europe

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2019 · 10.1111/geb.12991

• The functional role of temperate forest understorey vegetation in a changing world

  Global Change Biology · 2019 · 10.1111/gcb.14756

• Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0842-1

• Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

  The Science of The Total Environment · 2018 · 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.012

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

  Ecology Letters · 2017 · 10.1111/ele.12849

• Trees increase soil organic carbon and nutrient availability in temperate agroforestry systems

  Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment · 2017 · 10.1016/j.agee.2017.06.018

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

  Nature Communications · 2016 · 10.1038/ncomms11109

• Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016 · 10.1073/pnas.1517903113

• 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

  European Journal of Forest Research · 2015 · 10.1007/s10342-015-0900-4

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

  AMBIO · 2015 · 10.1007/s13280-015-0685-1

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

  Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2013 · 10.1016/j.ppees.2013.07.002

• Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1311190110

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

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 10.1073/pnas.1312779110

• Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature

  Journal of Ecology · 2013 · 10.1111/1365-2745.12074

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

  Journal of Ecology · 2011 · 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01928.x

• Cumulative nitrogen input drives species loss in terrestrial ecosystems

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2011 · 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00652.x

• Legacies of the past in the present‐day forest biodiversity: a review of past land‐use effects on forest plant species composition and diversity

  Ecological Research · 2007 · 10.1007/s11284-007-0354-3

• Rainfall partitioning into throughfall, stemflow, and interception within a single beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) canopy: influence of foliation, rain event characteristics, and meteorology

  Hydrological Processes · 2007 · 10.1002/hyp.6610

• Homogenization of forest plant communities and weakening of species–environment relationships via agricultural land use

  Journal of Ecology · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01233.x

• EXTINCTION DEBT OF FOREST PLANTS PERSISTS FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY FOLLOWING HABITAT FRAGMENTATION

  Ecology · 2006 · 10.1890/05-1182

• Response of forest plant species to land‐use change: a life‐history trait‐based approach

  Journal of Ecology · 2003 · 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2003.00789.x

• Permeability of ancient forest edges for weedy plant species invasion

  Forest Ecology and Management · 2002 · 10.1016/s0378-1127(01)00490-x

• Possible effects of habitat fragmentation and climate change on the range of forest plant species

  Ecology Letters · 2002 · 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00346.x

Current projects

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