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  1. LiDAR derived forest structure data improves predictions of canopy N and P concentrations from imaging spectroscopy

    Article • Remote Sensing of Environment, June 2018, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  2. The DIARS toolbox: a spatially explicit approach to monitor alien plant invasions through remote sensing

    Article • Research Ideas and Outcomes, March 2018, Pensoft Publishers

    dr. Raf Aerts

  3. An Iconic Pit Viper of the Central American Rainforests

    Article • Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, March 2018, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  4. Heat and health in Antwerp under climate change: Projected impacts and implications for prevention

    Article • Environment International, February 2018, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  5. Silicone Wristband Passive Samplers Yield Highly Individualized Pesticide Residue Exposure Profiles

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, December 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    dr. Raf Aerts

  6. Improvised Hand Injury Treatment Using Traditional Veterinary Medicine in Ethiopia

    Article • Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, December 2017, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  7. A unified framework to model the potential and realized distributions of invasive species within the invaded range

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, April 2017, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts

  8. The Dallol Volcano

    Article • Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, April 2017, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  9. Invasion by the Alien Tree Prunus serotina Alters Ecosystem Functions in a Temperate Deciduous Forest

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, February 2017, Frontiers

    dr. Raf Aerts

  10. Restoration of degraded ecosystems in the Afromontane highlands of Ethiopia: comparison of plantations and natural regeneration

    Article • Southern Forests a Journal of Forest Science, February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    dr. Raf Aerts

  11. Conserving wild Arabica coffee: Emerging threats and opportunities

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, January 2017, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  12. Tree-related ecosystem services

    Article • International Journal of Biodiversity Science Ecosystems Services & Management, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    dr. Raf Aerts, Jean Poesen, Meron Gelan

  13. Mapping an invasive bryophyte species using hyperspectral remote sensing data

    Article • Biological Invasions, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr. Raf Aerts

  14. Patterns of forest composition and their long term environmental drivers in the tropical dry forest transition zone of southern Africa

    Article • Forest Ecosystems, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr. Raf Aerts

  15. Conservation of ecosystem services does not secure the conservation of birds in a Peruvian shade coffee landscape

    Article • Bird Conservation International, August 2016, Cambridge University Press

    dr. Raf Aerts

  16. Plant diversity and regeneration in a disturbed isolated dry Afromontane forest in northern Ethiopia

    Article • Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr. Raf Aerts, Dr Hans Juergen Boehmer

  17. Potential ecosystem services of urban agriculture: a review

    Article • July 2016, PeerJ

    dr. Raf Aerts

  18. Conservation of the Ethiopian church forests: Threats, opportunities and implications for their management

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, May 2016, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  19. Biodiversity and carbon storage co-benefits of coffee agroforestry across a gradient of increasing management intensity in the SW Ethiopian highlands

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, April 2016, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  20. Trees in a human-modified tropical landscape: Species and trait composition and potential ecosystem services

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, December 2015, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  21. Management intensification in Ethiopian coffee forests is associated with crown habitat contraction and loss of specialized epiphytic orchid species

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, November 2015, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  22. Protecting coffee from intensification

    Article • Science, January 2015, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    dr. Raf Aerts

  23. The potential of small exclosures in assisting regeneration of coffee shade trees in South-Western Ethiopian coffee forests

    Article • African Journal of Ecology, January 2015, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts

  24. Fragmentation and Management of Ethiopian Moist Evergreen Forest Drive Compositional Shifts of Insect Communities Visiting Wild Arabica Coffee Flowers

    Article • Environmental Management, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr. Raf Aerts

  25. Conserving Open Natural Pollination Safeguards Jatropha Oil Yield and Oil Quality

    Article • BioEnergy Research, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr. Raf Aerts

  26. Potential tree species extinction, colonization and recruitment in Afromontane forest relicts

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, June 2014, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  27. Contrasting Cloud Forest Restoration Potential Between Plantations of Different Exotic Tree Species

    Article • Restoration Ecology, April 2014, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts

  28. Effects of forest management on mating patterns, pollen flow and intergenerational transfer of genetic diversity in wild Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.) from Afromontane rainforests

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, April 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    dr. Raf Aerts

  29. Global greenhouse gas implications of land conversion to biofuel crop cultivation in arid and semi-arid lands – Lessons learned from Jatropha

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, November 2013, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  30. A global meta-analysis of the biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits of coffee and cacao agroforestry

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, August 2013, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  31. Contribution of woody habitat islands to the conservation of birds and their potential ecosystem services in an extensive Colombian rangeland

    Article • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, July 2013, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  32. Both forest fragmentation and coffee cultivation negatively affect epiphytic orchid diversity in Ethiopian moist evergreen Afromontane forests

    Article • Biological Conservation, March 2013, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  33. Old Trees: Extraction, Conservation Can Coexist

    Article • Science, February 2013, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    dr. Raf Aerts

  34. Effects of Coffee Management Intensity on Composition, Structure, and Regeneration Status of Ethiopian Moist Evergreen Afromontane Forests

    Article • Environmental Management, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr. Raf Aerts

  35. Invasiveness risk of the tropical biofuel cropJatropha curcasL. into adjacent land use systems: from the rumors to the experimental facts

    Article • GCB Bioenergy, October 2012, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts

  36. Altitudinal variation and conservation priorities of vegetation along the Great Rift Valley escarpment, northern Ethiopia

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr. Raf Aerts, Dr Hans Juergen Boehmer

  37. Genetic variation and risks of introgression in the wild C offea arabica gene pool in south‐western E thiopian montane rainforests

    Article • Evolutionary Applications, July 2012, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts

  38. Crop wild relatives: more common ground for breeders and ecologists

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, April 2012, Wiley

    Professor Hans Jacquemyn, dr. Raf Aerts

  39. Seeds of Change for Restoration Ecology

    Article • Science, July 2011, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    dr. Raf Aerts

  40. Status of Native Woody Species Diversity and Soil Characteristics in an Exclosure and in Plantations of Eucalyptus globulus and Cupressus lusitanica in Northern Ethiopia

    Article • Mountain Research and Development, May 2011, International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University

    dr. Raf Aerts

  41. Dieback affects forest structure in a dry Afromontane forest in northern Ethiopia

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, May 2011, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts, Dr Hans Juergen Boehmer

  42. Semi-forest coffee cultivation and the conservation of Ethiopian Afromontane rainforest fragments

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, March 2011, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  43. More than biofuel? Jatropha curcas root system symmetry and potential for soil erosion control

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, February 2011, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  44. Forest restoration, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

    Article • BMC Ecology, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr. Raf Aerts

  45. Woody plant communities of isolated Afromontane cloud forests in Taita Hills, Kenya

    Article • Plant Ecology, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr. Raf Aerts

  46. Global mapping of Jatropha curcas yield based on response of fitness to present and future climate

    Article • GCB Bioenergy, June 2010, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts

  47. Towards domestication ofJatropha curcas

    Article • Biofuels, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    dr. Raf Aerts

  48. The accumulation of Stone Age lithic artifacts in rock fragment mulches in northern Ethiopia

    Article • Geoarchaeology, January 2010, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts

  49. Jatropha: From global hype to local opportunity

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, January 2010, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  50. Site requirements of the endangered rosewood Dalbergia oliveri in a tropical deciduous forest in northern Thailand

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, December 2009, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  51. On the difference between “exclosures” and “enclosures” in ecology and the environment

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, August 2009, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  52. Open-access publishing can survive recession

    Article • Nature, April 2009, Nature

    dr. Raf Aerts

  53. Jatropha bio-diesel production and use

    Article • Biomass and Bioenergy, December 2008, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  54. Euphorbia abyssinica latex promotes rooting of Boswellia cuttings

    Article • New Forests, August 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr. Raf Aerts

  55. Digital identifiers could keep up with authors' moves

    Article • Nature, July 2008, Nature

    dr. Raf Aerts

  56. Digital identifiers work for articles, so why not for authors?

    Article • Nature, June 2008, Nature

    dr. Raf Aerts

  57. In situ persistence of African wild olive and forest restoration in degraded semiarid savanna

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, June 2008, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  58. Seedling mortality causes recruitment limitation of Boswellia papyrifera in northern Ethiopia

    Article • Journal of Arid Environments, April 2008, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  59. Land rehabilitation and the conservation of birds in a degraded Afromontane landscape in northern Ethiopia

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, September 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr. Raf Aerts

  60. Elevation and exposition rather than soil types determine communities and site suitability in Mediterranean mountain forests of southern Anatolia, Turkey

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, August 2007, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  61. Restoration of Dry Afromontane Forest Using Pioneer Shrubs as Nurse-Plants for Olea europaea ssp. cuspidata

    Article • Restoration Ecology, March 2007, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts

  62. Letters to the editor about the contents of past issues and comments on topics of current concern toFrontiersreaders

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, March 2007, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts

  63. Jatropha biodiesel fueling sustainability?

    Article • Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining, January 2007, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts

  64. Restoring dry Afromontane forest using bird and nurse plant effects: Direct sowing of Olea europaea ssp. cuspidata seeds

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, July 2006, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  65. Species composition and diversity of small Afromontane forest fragments in northern Ethiopia

    Article • Plant Ecology, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    dr. Raf Aerts

  66. Effects of pioneer shrubs on the recruitment of the fleshy‐fruited tree Olea europaea ssp. cuspidata in Afromontane savanna

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, February 2006, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts

  67. Surface runoff and seed trapping efficiency of shrubs in a regenerating semiarid woodland in northern Ethiopia

    Article • CATENA, January 2006, Elsevier

    dr. Raf Aerts

  68. Effects of pioneer shrubs on the recruitment of the fleshy-fruited tree Olea europaea ssp. cuspidata in Afromontane savanna

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, January 2006, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts

  69. Ecosystem Thermal Buffer Capacity as an Indicator of the Restoration Status of Protected Areas in the Northern Ethiopian Highlands

    Article • Restoration Ecology, December 2004, Wiley

    dr. Raf Aerts