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About

our research mission

The overall goal of restore is to enhance our comprehension of soil health and particularly the role of soil biodiversity in plant-soil-animal interactions as a key to advance more effective restoration strategies, in order to boost resilience under global change and assure a steady delivery of ecosystem services.

Research

Applied Restoration Ecology

Our research group is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of knowledge through collaborative research and innovation, we focus on three research lines:

Leveraging Soil Biodiversity

Soil communities and their functions as base for successful restoration

Plant-Soil-Animal interactions

Understanding plant-soil-animal interactions is fundamental to identify the handles for restoration

Tools for Agro- and Ecosystem restoration

Development of agricultural and nature management tools supporting restoration in mixed landscapes

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Our research group

Who are we?

Ellen Desie

Assistant Professor

Robin Tersago

PhD student

Yannick De Win

PhD student

Caro Van den Rul

Msc student

Treza Cordaro

PhD student

Lennert Magr

PhD student

Sofie Peters

Msc student

Camille Van Eupen

Postdoctoral researcher

Sascha Nijdam

PhD student

Astrid Sneyders

PhD student

Noé Boddez

Msc student

Publications

Restore's Recent Insights

Read our most recent work here

Managing black cherry

Two new articles on the impact of Prunus serotina on forest vitality in Forest Ecology and Management and Forest ecosystems

Drivers of litter decomposition

Disentangling drivers of litter decomposition in a multi-continent network of tree diversity experiments

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Funding opportunities for PhD students

Funding opportunities for Postdocs

Contact

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