Eric Arets
Junior Researcher (Tropical forest ecology and management)
Education
MSc (1998), Utrecht University (Landscape and vegetation ecology)
PhD (2005), Utrecht University (Tropical forest ecology and management)
Key qualifications
Main field of expertise is tropical forest ecology and management. I have gained experience with both long-term field studies and simulation models.
Tree population dynamics
• Field study on the population dynamics of tropical trees.
• Modelling population dynamics of tropical trees using spatially explicit, individual based models.
• Dynamics of tree recruitment in tropical forests.
Sustainable forest management
• Evaluating long-term sustainability of different management scenarios for tropical forests using simulation models.
Biodiversity
• Evaluating the long-term effects of logging on tree diversity and species composition.
• Development of a database to digitise Herbarium specimen for more efficient use in biodiversity research.
• Studies on explanations for maintenance of high tree diversity in tropical forests.
Other qualifications
• Computer: ArcGIS, C++, Visual Basic, SPSS, MS Access.
• Coordinating: Supervisor at the Tropenbos-Guyana field sites during field work there (daily management and logistics).
Major Projects
• GLOBIO: Monitoring Forest Cover and Quality by Remote Sensing.
http://www.boci.wur.nl/UK/Research+themes/Conservation+and+use+of+biodiversity/Widening+the+analytical+scope+of+GLOBIO3+-+modelling+global+biodiversity/
• EFORWOOD - Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Forestry-Wood Chain. http://www.eforwood.com/
• Support SBB Suriname. http://www.boci.wur.nl/UK/Research+themes/Conservation+and+use+of+biodiversity/Support+to+the+SBB+in+Suriname/
Key publications
• Arets E.J.M.M., P. van der Meer, N. van den Brink, K. Tjon, V. Atmopawiro and P. Ouboter (2006). Assessment of the impacts of gold mining on soil and vegetation in Brownsberg Nature Park, Suriname. Alterra report 1359. Alterra, Wageningen UR, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
• Arets, E.J.M.M. (2005) Long-term responses of populations and communities of trees to selective logging in tropical rain forests in Guyana. Ph.D. thesis Utrecht University. Tropenbos Guyana Series 13, Tropenbos International, Wageningen, Nederland.
• Arets, E.J.M.M., van der Hout, P. en Zagt, R.J. (2003). Responses of tree populations and forest composition to selective logging in Guyana. In: H. ter Steege, Long-term changes in tropical tree diversity. Studies from the Guiana Shield, Africa, Borneo and Melanesia. Tropenbos Series 22. Tropenbos International, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
• Poorter, L. en Arets, E.J.M.M. (2003). Light environment and tree strategies in a Bolivian tropical moist forest: an evaluation of the light-partitioning hypothesis. Plant Ecology 166: 295-306.
• Zagt, R.J., Arets E.J.M.M., en van Ulft, L.H. (2000). The population dynamics of Baromalli in the Barama concession. Technical Background Document for Barama Company Ltd. Tropenbos-Guyana Programme, Georgetown, Guyana.
Affiliations
• Vereniging Tropische Bossen (Association Tropical Forests, Netherlands) (Board member (secretary) since 2005).
• Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC).