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  1. Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth

    Article • Science, July 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Ricardo Villalba, Hans Beeckman

  2. Carbon Sequestration Potential in Rubber Plantations: A Complementary Approach to Tropical Forest Conservation Strategies, a Review

    Article • Earth, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Hans Beeckman

  3. The Response of Erica arborea L. Tree Growth to Climate Variability at the Afro-alpine Tropical Highlands of North Ethiopia

    Article • Forests, March 2020, MDPI AG

    Hans Beeckman

  4. Growth-Ring Analysis of Diploknema butyracea Is a Potential Tool for Revealing Indigenous Land Use History in the Lower Himalayan Foothills of Nepal

    Article • Forests, February 2020, MDPI AG

    Hans Beeckman

  5. Historical Aerial Surveys Map Long-Term Changes of Forest Cover and Structure in the Central Congo Basin

    Article • Remote Sensing, February 2020, MDPI AG

    Hans Beeckman

  6. Foliar and Wood Traits Covary along a Vertical Gradient within the Crown of Long-Lived Light-Demanding Species of the Congo Basin Semi-Deciduous Forest

    Article • Forests, December 2019, MDPI AG

    Hans Beeckman

  7. A whole-plant functional scheme predicting the early growth of tropical tree species: evidence from 15 tree species in Central Africa

    Article • Trees, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  8. Wood Density Profiles and Their Corresponding Tissue Fractions in Tropical Angiosperm Trees

    Article • Forests, December 2018, MDPI AG

    Hans Beeckman

  9. Timber for the trenches: a new perspective on archaeological wood from First World War trenches in Flanders Fields

    Article • Antiquity, December 2018, Antiquity Publications

    Hans Beeckman

  10. Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, October 2018, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  11. The African timber tree Entandrophragma congoense (Pierre ex De Wild.) A.Chev. is morphologically and genetically distinct from Entandrophragma angolense (Welw.) C.DC

    Article • Tree Genetics & Genomes, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  12. Inter- and intraspecific variation in mangrove carbon fraction and wood specific gravity in Gazi Bay, Kenya

    Article • Ecosphere, June 2018, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  13. Tree ring responses to climate variability of xerophytic thickets from South Soalara, Madagascar

    Article • Dendrochronologia, June 2018, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman, Professor Josoa Ramarolanonana Randriamalala

  14. Reconciling biodiversity and carbon stock conservation in an Afrotropical forest landscape

    Article • Science Advances, March 2018, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Hans Beeckman

  15. Fourteen years of anthropization dynamics in the Uapaca bojeri Baill. forest of Madagascar

    Article • Landscape and Ecological Engineering, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  16. Effects of Drought on Xylem Anatomy and Water-Use Efficiency of Two Co-Occurring Pine Species

    Article • Forests, September 2017, MDPI AG

    Hans Beeckman

  17. Comparison of species classification models of mass spectrometry data: Kernel Discriminant Analysis vs Random Forest; A case study of Afrormosia (Pericopsis elata (Harms) Meeuwen)

    Article • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, September 2017, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman, Edgard Espinoza

  18. Forests and rivers: The archaeology of the north eastern Congo

    Article • Quaternary International, August 2017, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  19. Towards an unknown fate: The floating behaviour of recently abscised propagules from wide ranging Rhizophoraceae mangrove species

    Article • Aquatic Botany, May 2017, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  20. Hydraulic conductivity and xylem structure of partially buried mangrove tree species

    Article • Plant and Soil, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  21. Automated classification of wood transverse cross-section micro-imagery from 77 commercial Central-African timber species

    Article • Annals of Forest Science, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  22. Predicting site productivity of the timber tree Pterocarpus angolensis

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

    Hans Beeckman

  23. Testing a general approach to assess the degree of disturbance in tropical forests

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, February 2017, Wiley

    tommaso anfodillo, Hans Beeckman

  24. Model performance of tree height-diameter relationships in the central Congo Basin

    Article • Annals of Forest Science, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  25. Present-day central African forest is a legacy of the 19th century human history

    Article • eLife, January 2017, eLife

    Hans Beeckman

  26. Capacitive water release and internal leaf water relocation delay drought-induced cavitation in AfricanMaesopsis eminii

    Article • Tree Physiology, January 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Hans Beeckman

  27. Functional community structure of African monodominantGilbertiodendron dewevreiforest influenced by local environmental filtering

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, December 2016, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  28. Land cover dynamics in the Simien Mountains (Ethiopia), half a century after establishment of the National Park

    Article • Regional Environmental Change, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  29. Cambial activity in the understory of the Mayombe forest, DR Congo

    Article • Trees, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  30. Annual diameter growth of Pterocarpus angolensis (Kiaat) and other woodland species in Namibia

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, August 2016, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  31. GROWTH-RING DISTINCTNESS AND BOUNDARY ANATOMY VARIABILITY IN TROPICAL TREES

    Article • IAWA Journal, July 2016, Brill

    Hans Beeckman

  32. Functional traits and wood features

    Article • IAWA Journal, July 2016, Brill

    Hans Beeckman

  33. FUNCTIONAL TRAITS IN WOOD ANAT OMY

    Article • IAWA Journal, July 2016, Brill

    Hans Beeckman, Katarina Cufar

  34. High spatial resolution of late-Holocene human activities in the moist forests of central Africa using soil charcoal and charred botanical remains

    Article • The Holocene, June 2016, SAGE Publications

    Hans Beeckman

  35. Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

    Article • Biogeosciences, April 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Hans Beeckman, Dr. Simone Vieira

  36. A field-to-desktop toolchain for X-ray CT densitometry enables tree ring analysis

    Article • Annals of Botany, April 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Hans Beeckman

  37. Stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in Pericopsis elata tree rings from the Congo Basin

    Article • Journal of Tropical Ecology, April 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Daniele Colombaroli, Hans Beeckman

  38. Computed Tomography and light microscopy: combining visualisation techniques in the study of mangrove seedling development

    Article • IAWA Journal, March 2016, Brill

    Hans Beeckman

  39. Climatic Signals in Tree Rings of Heritiera fomes Buch.-Ham. in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh

    Article • PLOS One, February 2016, PLOS

    Hans Beeckman

  40. Tree rings show a different climatic response in a managed and a non-managed plantation of teak (Tectona grandis) in West Africa

    Article • IAWA Journal, December 2015, Brill

    Hans Beeckman

  41. Wood Specific Gravity Variations and Biomass of Central African Tree Species: The Simple Choice of the Outer Wood

    Article • PLOS One, November 2015, PLOS

    Hans Beeckman

  42. Cambial dormancy induced growth rings in Heritiera fomes Buch.- Ham.: a proxy for exploring the dynamics of Sundarbans, Bangladesh

    Article • Trees, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  43. Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  44. Land Use and Cover Dynamics Since 1964 in the Afro-Alpine Vegetation Belt: Lib Amba Mountain in North Ethiopia

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, July 2015, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  45. Charcoal-inferred Holocene fire and vegetation history linked to drought periods in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Article • Global Change Biology, February 2015, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  46. How Tightly Linked Are Pericopsis elata (Fabaceae) Patches to Anthropogenic Disturbances in Southeastern Cameroon?

    Article • Forests, January 2015, MDPI AG

    Hans Beeckman

  47. A novel procedure to measure shrinkage-free tree-rings from very large wood samples combining photogrammetry, high-resolution image processing, and GIS tools

    Article • Dendrochronologia, January 2015, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  48. Dendrochronological Potential in a Semi-Deciduous Rainforest: The Case of Pericopsis elata in Central Africa

    Article • Forests, December 2014, MDPI AG

    Hans Beeckman

  49. North Ethiopian Afro‐Alpine Tree Line Dynamics and Forest‐Cover Change Since the Early 20th Century

    Article • Land Degradation and Development, October 2014, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  50. Tree line dynamics in the tropical African highlands - identifying drivers and dynamics

    Article • Journal of Vegetation Science, August 2014, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  51. Effects of experimental sedimentation on the phenological dynamics and leaf traits of replanted mangroves at Gazi bay, Kenya

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, July 2014, Wiley

    Miss Judith Auma Okello, Hans Beeckman

  52. The olive-branch dating of the Santorini eruption

    Article • Antiquity, March 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Hans Beeckman, Holger Gärtner

  53. How to catch the patch? A dendrometer study of the radial increment through successive cambia in the mangrove Avicennia

    Article • Annals of Botany, February 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Hans Beeckman

  54. New Evidence of Human Activities During the Holocene in the Lowland Forests of the Northern Congo Basin

    Article • Radiocarbon, January 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Hans Beeckman

  55. Archaeological charcoals as archives for firewood preferences and vegetation composition during the late Holocene in the southern Mayumbe, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

    Article • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Koen Bostoen, Hans Beeckman

  56. Ancient charcoal as a natural archive for paleofire regime and vegetation change in the Mayumbe, Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Article • Quaternary Research, September 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Hans Beeckman

  57. Tree-ring analysis of an African long-lived pioneer species as a tool for sustainable forest management

    Article • Forest Ecology and Management, September 2013, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  58. Conventional tree height–diameter relationships significantly overestimate aboveground carbon stocks in the Central Congo Basin

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  59. Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Hans Beeckman

  60. A tree-ring based comparison of Terminalia superba climate–growth relationships in West and Central Africa

    Article • Trees, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  61. Size of conducting phloem: The “key” factor for bark recovery of 12 tropical medicinal tree species

    Article • Flora, February 2013, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  62. Olive Tree-Ring Problematic Dating: A Comparative Analysis on Santorini (Greece)

    Article • PLOS One, January 2013, PLOS

    Hans Beeckman, Holger Gärtner

  63. Cambial Growth Season of Brevi-Deciduous Brachystegia spiciformis Trees from South Central Africa Restricted to Less than Four Months

    Article • PLOS One, October 2012, PLOS

    Hans Beeckman

  64. Influence of drought on tree rings and tracheid features of Pinus nigra and Pinus sylvestris in a mesic Mediterranean forest

    Article • European Journal of Forest Research, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  65. Geographically differentiating morphology of genetically similar dogroses: consequences of canina meiosis

    Article • Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  66. Fluctuations of cambial activity in relation to precipitation result in annual rings and intra-annual growth zones of xylem and phloem in teak (Tectona grandis) in Ivory Coast

    Article • Annals of Botany, July 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Hans Beeckman

  67. Charcoal identification in species-rich biomes: A protocol for Central Africa optimised for the Mayumbe forest

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, February 2012, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  68. A Structural and Compositional Analysis of Intervessel pit Membranes in the Sapwood of some Mangrove Woods

    Article • IAWA Journal, January 2012, Brill

    Hans Beeckman

  69. The potential of using xylarium wood samples for wood density calculations: a comparison of approaches for volume measurement

    Article • iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, August 2011, Italian Society of Sivilculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF)

    Hans Beeckman

  70. Successive Cambia: A Developmental Oddity or an Adaptive Structure?

    Article • PLOS One, January 2011, PLOS

    Hans Beeckman

  71. Dendrochronology in the dry tropics: the Ethiopian case

    Article • Trees, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  72. High-resolution proxies for wood density variations in Terminalia superba

    Article • Annals of Botany, December 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Hans Beeckman

  73. Mangrove growth rings: fact or fiction?

    Article • Trees, September 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  74. Wound reaction after bark harvesting: microscopic and macroscopic phenomena in ten medicinal tree species (Benin)

    Article • Trees, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  75. Tyloses and Phenolic Deposits in Xylem Vessels Impede Water Transport in Low-Lignin Transgenic Poplars: A Study by Cryo-Fluorescence Microscopy

    Article • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, July 2010, American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)

    Hans Beeckman

  76. Species-Specific Growth Responses to Climate Variations in Understory Trees of a Central African Rain Forest

    Article • Biotropica, January 2010, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  77. Climate/growth relationships of Brachystegia spiciformis from the miombo woodland in south central Africa

    Article • Dendrochronologia, January 2010, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  78. The potential of plantations of Terminalia superba Engl. & Diels for wood and biomass production (Mayombe Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo)

    Article • Annals of Forest Science, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  79. A safe hydraulic architecture as wood anatomical explanation for the difference in distribution of the mangrovesAvicenniaandRhizophora

    Article • Functional Ecology, August 2009, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  80. What is disjunctive xylem parenchyma? A case study of the African tropical hardwood Okoubaka aubrevillei (Santalaceae)

    Article • American Journal of Botany, August 2009, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  81. Herb layer changes (1954-2000) related to the conversion of coppice-with-standards forest and soil acidification

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, April 2009, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  82. Evidence for repeated re-activation of old landslides under forest

    Article • Earth Surface Processes, March 2009, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  83. Oaks, tree-rings and wooden cultural heritage: a review of the main characteristics and applications of oak dendrochronology in Europe

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, January 2009, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman, Katarina Cufar

  84. Intervessel Pit Structure and Histochemistry of Two Mangrove Species as Revealed by Cellular UV Microspectrophotometry and Electron Microscopy: Intraspecific Variation and Functional Significance

    Article • Microscopy and Microanalysis, September 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Hans Beeckman

  85. A Patchy Growth via Successive and Simultaneous Cambia: Key to Success of the Most Widespread Mangrove Species Avicennia marina?

    Article • Annals of Botany, October 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Hans Beeckman

  86. Successive cambia development in Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh. is not climatically driven in the seasonal climate at Gazi Bay, Kenya

    Article • Dendrochronologia, September 2007, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  87. Long-term dynamics in a planted conifer forest with spontaneous ingrowth of broad-leaved trees

    Article • Applied Vegetation Science, August 2007, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  88. Comparative Anatomy of Intervessel Pits in Two Mangrove Species Growing Along a Natural Salinity Gradient in Gazi Bay, Kenya

    Article • Annals of Botany, June 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Hans Beeckman

  89. Planning tree species diversification in Kenya based on differences in tree species composition between farms. I. Analysis of tree uses

    Article • Agroforestry Systems, July 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  90. Planning tree species diversification in Kenya based on differences in tree species composition between farms. II. Analysis of tree niches.

    Article • Agroforestry Systems, July 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  91. Influence of a Salinity Gradient on the Vessel Characters of the Mangrove Species Rhizophora mucronata

    Article • Annals of Botany, June 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Hans Beeckman

  92. Annual Growth Ring Patterns in Brachystegia spiciformis Reveal Influence of Precipitation on Tree Growth1

    Article • Biotropica, April 2006, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  93. Growth trends reveal the forest structure during Roman and Medieval times in Western Europe: a comparison between archaeological and actual oak ring series (Quercus robur and Quercus petraea)

    Article • Annals of Forest Science, December 2005, EDP Sciences

    Hans Beeckman

  94. Dendrochronology in suboptimal conditions: tree rings from medieval oak from Flanders (Belgium) as dating tools and archives of past forest management

    Article • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, October 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  95. Molecular changes associated with the setting up of secondary growth in aspen

    Article • Journal of Experimental Botany, July 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Hans Beeckman

  96. Comparison between δ13C of α-cellulose and bulk wood in the mangrove tree Rhizophora mucronata: Implications for dendrochemistry

    Article • Chemical Geology, June 2005, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  97. High-resolution time series of vessel density in Kenyan mangrove trees reveal a link with climate

    Article • New Phytologist, March 2005, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  98. Provenancing Baltic timber from art historical objects: success and limitations

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, February 2005, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  99. Late Gothic Altarpieces as Sources of Information on Medieval Wood Use: A Dendrochronological and Art Historical Survey

    Article • IAWA Journal, January 2005, Brill

    Hans Beeckman

  100. Annual cyclicity in high-resolution stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios in the wood of the mangrove tree Rhizophora mucronata

    Article • Plant Cell & Environment, December 2004, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  101. Growth Rings, Growth Ring Formation and Age Determination in the Mangrove Rhizophora mucronata

    Article • Annals of Botany, May 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Hans Beeckman

  102. Climatic signals in tree rings of Burkea africana and Pterocarpus angolensis from semiarid forests in Namibia

    Article • Trees, March 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  103. A SURVEY OF THE SYSTEMATIC WOOD ANATOMY OF THE RUBIACEAE

    Article • IAWA Journal, January 2002, Brill

    Hans Beeckman

  104. TREE RING ANALYSIS OF BRACHYSTEGIA SPICIFORMIS AND ISOBERLINIA TOMENTOSA: EVALUATION OF THE ENSO-SIGNAL IN THE MIOMBO WOODLAND OF EASTERN AFRICA

    Article • IAWA Journal, January 2001, Brill

    Hans Beeckman

  105. Phenylcoumaran benzylic ether reductase, a prominent poplar xylem protein, is strongly associated with phenylpropanoid biosynthesis in lignifying cells

    Article • Planta, September 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  106. ALUMINIUM ACCUMULATION IN RUBIACEAE: AN ADDITIONAL CHARACTER FOR THE DELIMITATION OF THE SUBFAMILY RUBIOIDEAE?

    Article • IAWA Journal, January 2000, Brill

    Hans Beeckman

  107. Variations in the Lengths of Fusiform Cambial Cells and Vessel Elements in Kalopanax pictus

    Article • Annals of Botany, November 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Hans Beeckman

  108. Agaristoxylon garennicum Gerrienne et al., gen. et sp. nov., an arborescent Ericaceae from the Belgian Upper Paleocene: palaeoenvironmental implications

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, February 1999, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  109. Holocene environmental changes in the Gebel Umm Hammad, Eastern Desert, Egypt

    Article • Geomorphology, January 1999, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  110. Identification of a fossil wood specimen in the Red Sandstone Group of southwestern Tanzania: Stratigraphical and tectonic implications

    Article • Journal of African Earth Sciences, April 1998, Elsevier

    Hans Beeckman

  111. Wood Anatomy of the Predominantly African Representatives of the Tribe Psychotrieae (Rubiaceae-Rubioideae)

    Article • IAWA Journal, January 1997, Brill

    Hans Beeckman

  112. GaertneraandPagamea: Genera Within thePsychotrieaeor Constituting the TribeGaertnereae?A Wood Anatomical and Palynological Approach

    Article • Botanica Acta, December 1996, Wiley

    Hans Beeckman

  113. Effects of harvesting dates and frequencies on above and below-ground dynamics in Belgian wet grasslands

    Article • Ecoscience, January 1996, Taylor & Francis

    Hans Beeckman

  114. The seagrass and associated macroalgal vegetation of Gazi Bay (Kenya)

    Article • Hydrobiologia, November 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Hans Beeckman

  115. Knowledge modelling for a wood identification system

    Article • Silva Gandavensis, October 1992, Ghent University

    Hans Beeckman

  116. Le bois comme composant d'écosystème

    Article • Silva Gandavensis, October 1991, Ghent University

    Hans Beeckman