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Modelling lianas as key drivers of tropical forest responses to climate change
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| Coordinator |
UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | Belgium [BE] |
| Project website | https://www.ugent.be/bw/temb/cavelab/en/research/webpage-treeclimbers |
| Total cost | 1˙499˙375 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙499˙375 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2014-STG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
| Starting year | 2015 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2015-04-01 to 2020-03-31 |
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| 1 | UNIVERSITEIT GENT | BE (GENT) | coordinator | 1˙499˙375.00 |
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Project objective
Tropical forests are essential components of the earth system. Yet, much uncertainty exists about the exact role of this biome in the global carbon cycle. Our limited understanding of tropical forest functioning is reflected in uncertain global vegetation model projections. A large source of uncertainty in these models is their representation of ecosystem demographic processes. Interestingly, fieldwork has revealed lianas as important components of tropical forests, which are apparently increasing in abundance. Liana proliferation might be a key adaptation mechanism of tropical forests to climate change, which has potentially large impacts on the long term tropical forest biome carbon balance. Nevertheless, no single terrestrial ecosystem model currently includes lianas. TREECLIMBERS will generate important insights into the mechanisms by which lianas influence the carbon balance of tropical forests, by building the first vegetation model that includes lianas. We will make the first integrative study of (1) the contribution of lianas to instantaneous carbon and water fluxes, (2) liana contribution and influence on canopy structure, (3) their role for long term demographic processes, and (4) of their role in forest responses to drought events. TREECLIMBERS will develop the first liana plant functional type (PFT) by combining a unique global meta-analysis of existing data with innovative terrestrial LiDAR 3D measurements of the canopy to study the contribution of lianas to the canopy structure. New and available data will be integrated in the Ecosystem Demography (ED) model, a forerunner of the next generation of vegetation models. By using model-data fusion we will, for the first time, integrate the large amount of available and emerging liana data, leading to an integrated insight into the role of lianas in tropical forest functioning. This project aims to show that shifts in floristic composition due to global change may have important impacts in tropical forests.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 |
Hannes De Deurwaerder, Pedro Hervé-Fernández, Clément Stahl, Benoit Burban, Pascal Petronelli, Bruce Hoffman, Damien Bonal, Pascal Boeckx, Hans Verbeeck Liana and tree below-ground water competition—evidence for water resource partitioning during the dry season published pages: 1071-1083, ISSN: 1758-4469, DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpy002 |
Tree Physiology 38/7 | 2019-10-10 |
| 2019 |
Hans Verbeeck, Marijn Bauters, Tobias Jackson, Alexander Shenkin, Mathias Disney, Kim Calders Time for a Plant Structural Economics Spectrum published pages: , ISSN: 2624-893X, DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2019.00043 |
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2 | 2019-10-10 |
| 2018 |
Sruthi Krishna Moorthy, Kim Calders, Manfredo di Porcia e Brugnera, Stefan Schnitzer, Hans Verbeeck Terrestrial Laser Scanning to Detect Liana Impact on Forest Structure published pages: 810, ISSN: 2072-4292, DOI: 10.3390/rs10060810 |
Remote Sensing 10/6 | 2019-10-10 |
| 2019 |
Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Yunfei Bao, Kim Calders, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Hans Verbeeck Semi-automatic extraction of liana stems from terrestrial LiDAR point clouds of tropical rainforests published pages: 114-126, ISSN: 0924-2716, DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.05.011 |
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 154 | 2019-10-10 |
| 2019 |
Manfredo Porcia e Brugnera, Félicien Meunier, Marcos Longo, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy, Hannes De Deurwaerder, Stefan A. Schnitzer, Damien Bonal, Boris Faybishenko, Hans Verbeeck Modeling the impact of liana infestation on the demography and carbon cycle of tropical forests published pages: , ISSN: 1354-1013, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14769 |
Global Change Biology | 2019-10-10 |
| 2015 |
Verbeeck Hans Modelling lianas as key drivers of tropical forest responses to climate change. published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
Seminar at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute – Ecology group 9 June 2015 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2017 |
Coulier Pieter, Kearsley Elizabeth, Verbeeck Hans The impact of lianas on tree growth in lowland moist tropical forest in French Guiana published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2019-05-27 | |
| 2016 |
Roels Jana, Kearsley Elizabeth, Verbeeck Hans Liana abundance and distribution along a disturbance gradient in the tropical forest of French Guiana published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2019-05-27 | |
| 2016 |
Pausenberg Nancy, De Deurwaerder Hannes, Verbeeck Hans Photosynthetic characteristics of lianas versus tree in tropical rainforest in French Guiana published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2019-05-27 | |
| 2017 |
Mumbanza Mundondo F, Kearsley E, Boeckx P, Lubini Ayingweu C, Verbeeck H The role of lianas for the carbon cycle in the tropical rainforests of the Central Congo Basin published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
European conference of Tropical Ecology 6-10 February 2017 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2017 |
Meeussen Camille, Kearsley Elizabeth, Verbeeck Hans Lianas abundance and functional diversity along an altitudinal gradient in Northern Ecuador published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2019-05-27 | |
| 2017 |
Pieters Stijn, Moorthy Sruthi, Verbeeck Hans The influence of lianas on tropical forest structure using terrestrial laser scanning published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
2019-05-27 | |
| 2016 |
Verbeeck H, De Deurwaerder H, Di Porcia a Brugnera M, Moorthy S, Pausenberger N, Roels J, Kearsley E Introducing tropical liana proliferation in a vegetation model published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
53rd Annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 19-23 June 2016 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2016 |
De Deurwaerder H, Hervé-Fernandez P, Stahl C, Bonal D, Burban B, Boeckx P, Verbeeck H Tapping another water source: lianas’ and trees’ below ground competition for water published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 17-22 April 2016 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2016 |
Verbeeck H, De Deurwaerder H, di Porcia e Brugnera M, Moorthy S, Pausenberger N, Roels J, Kearsley E Introducing lianas in a vegetation model published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 17-22 April 2016 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2017 |
di Porcia e Brugnera M, Longo M, Kearsley E, Verbeeck H Introducing lianas in a DGVM, methods and first results published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
European conference of Tropical Ecology 6-10 February 2017 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2016 |
De Deurwaerder H, Hervé-Fernández P, Stahl C, Burban B, Bonal D, Boeckx P, Verbeeck H A stable isotopic view on lianas’ and trees’ below ground competition for water published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
Joint European Stable Isotopes User group Meeting 4-9 September 2016 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2016 |
Hans Verbeeck, Elizabeth Kearsley The importance of including lianas in global vegetation models published pages: E4-E4, ISSN: 0027-8424, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1521343113 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113/1 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2016 |
De Deurwaerder H, Hervé-Fernández P, Stahl C, Bonal D, Burban B, Boeckx P, Verbeeck H Tapping another source lianas and trees below ground competition for water published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
53rd Annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 19-23 June 2016 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2017 |
Rosie A. Fisher, Charles D. Koven, William R. L. Anderegg, Bradley O. Christoffersen, Michael C. Dietze, Caroline E. Farrior, Jennifer A. Holm, George C. Hurtt, Ryan G. Knox, Peter J. Lawrence, Jeremy W. Lichstein, Marcos Longo, Ashley M. Matheny, David Medvigy, Helene C. Muller-Landau, Thomas L. Powell, Shawn P. Serbin, Hisashi Sato, Jacquelyn K. Shuman, Benjamin Smith, Anna T. Trugman, Toni Viskari, Hans Verbeeck, Ensheng Weng, Chonggang Xu, Xiangtao Xu, Tao Zhang, Paul R. Moorcroft Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities published pages: , ISSN: 1354-1013, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13910 |
Global Change Biology | 2019-05-27 |
| 2017 |
De Deurwaerder H, Bonal D, Burban B, Verbeeck H The seasonal and diurnal responses of sap flow in lianas and trees and their contribution to stand scale evapotranspiration published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
European conference of Tropical Ecology 6-10 February 2017 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2017 |
De Deurwaerder H, Hervé-Fernández P, Stahl C, Burban B, Petronelli P, Hoffman B, Bonal D, Boeckx P, Verbeeck H Tapping another source: below ground water competition between lianas and tree published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
European conference of Tropical Ecology 6-10 February 2017 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2017 |
Moorthy SKMP., Schnitzer S., Verbeeck H Studying liana impact on the tropical forest structure with multiple return terrestrial LiDAR measurements published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
54rd Annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 9-14 July 2017 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2016 |
Verbeeck H and Nanni G Modelling lianas as key drivers of tropical forest responses to climate change, ERCcOMICS illustrated talks published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
The seventh international conference on Computational Creativity ICCC 27 June – 1 July 2016 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2017 |
Moorthy SKMP, di Porcia M, Kearsley E, Schnitzer S, Verbeeck H. Quantifying the impact of lianas on the vertical forest structure – a TLS approach published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
European conference of Tropical Ecology 6-10 February 2017 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2017 |
Verbeeck H, di Porcia M, Kearsley E, Longo M Introducing tropical lianas in a vegetation model, methods and first results published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 23-28 April 2017 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2017 |
De Deurwaerder H, Hervé-Fernández P, Stahl C, Burban B, Petronelli P, Hoffman B, Bonal D, Boeckx P, Verbeeck H A stable istopic view on lianas and trees below ground competition for water published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 23-28 April 2017 | 2019-05-27 |
| 2015 |
Verbeeck Hans Modelling lianas as key drivers of tropical forest responses to climate change published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: |
Seminar at UMR ECOFOG 4 September 2015 | 2019-05-27 |
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