Frans Bongers

Dados Biográficos

ID1820463
NOMEFrans Bongers
PRENOMESFrans
SOBRENOMEBongers
ASSINATURABONGERS F
AFILIAÇÕESWageningen University & Research
ORCID0000-0002-8431-6189
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS16
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES25
TOTAL COMO AUTOR16
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2016
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Understanding forest transitions and lock-ins in Latin American agro-forest frontiers

    Open AccessMadelon Lohbeck, Thomas W Kuyper et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2026

    The agro-forest frontier is the dynamic border between agricultural and forested lands. Drawing on results from an interdisciplinary research programme, we synthesise and compare social-ecological dynamics in three Latin American agro-forest frontiers: Marqués de Comillas and La Sepultura in Mexico, and Zona da Mata in Brazil. Each includes extensive livestock grazing, rain-fed agriculture, secondary vegetation, and state-protected areas. Forest …

  • Bioeconomic opportunities in restored tropical forests

    Open AccessPedro Medrado Krainovic, João Paulo Romanelli et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2026Referências: 46

  • Dissecting forest transition

    Open AccessJohan De Jong, Lourens Poorter et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2025Referências: 117

    Forest Transition (FT) is a theoretical framework for understanding tree cover changes but often overlooks differences within countries, across forest types (e.g., second-growth forests, tree plantations replacing natural forests), regions, and climates. We quantified tropical tree cover dynamics across eight regions in four tropical countries, examining how these patterns relate to FT and how they vary between climates and forest types. Each cou…

  • Good intentions meet complex realities

    Open AccessStephen Johnson, Sue Canney Davison et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2024Referências: 7

  • Exploring the impact of tenure arrangements and incentives on sustainable forest use

    Open AccessYeshimebet Ayele Tegenie, Robert Sparrow et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2024Referências: 5

    The types of tenurial arrangements and incentives appropriate for the sustainable management of common pool resources (CPRs), such as forests, remain a topic of debate. In this study, we aim to (i) investigate the extraction level of forest resources under short and long-term property rights, and (ii) evaluate the effectiveness of introducing mechanisms that leverage reputation and feelings of guilt in promoting cooperation among CPR users with s…

  • Isotopic Characterization of Cedrela to Verify Species and Regional Provenance of Bolivian Timber

    Kathelyn Paredes-Villanueva, Arnoud Boom et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2022

    With increasing concerns about sustainable exploitation of tropical timber, there is a need for developing independent tools to check their origin. We evaluated the potential of tree-ring stable isotopes for identifying four Cedrela species (C. balansae, C. fissilis, C. odorata, and C. saltensis) and for identifying geographic origin of C. fissilis and C. odorata, two of the most intensively exploited species. We studied differences in δ13C and δ…

  • Tapping into nature’s benefits

    Open AccessAlan Heinze, Thomas W Kuyper et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2021

    The concept of ecosystem services (ES) and related conceptual frameworks like the cascade model, can be relevant to explore the ways through which people and nature are connected and how the benefits of nature, upon which people depend, are realised. An integrated cascade framework was used to study the ES pathway of pine resin, a traded forest product, in a rural mountain community in Mexico. We conducted mixed-methods research, combining partic…

  • Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages

    Open AccessDanaë M A Rozendaal, Daniela Requena Suarez et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    For monitoring and reporting forest carbon stocks and fluxes, many countries in the tropics and subtropics rely on default values of forest aboveground biomass (AGB) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories. Default IPCC forest AGB values originated from 2006, and are relatively crude estimates of average values per continent and ecological zone. The 2006 default values wer…

  • Response to “Withering the coloniality of the forest transition?”

    Open AccessT K Rudel, Patrick Meyfroidt et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2021Citada por: 1Referências: 3

  • Whither the forest transition? Climate change, policy responses, and redistributed forests in the twenty-first century

    Open AccessT K Rudel, Patrick Meyfroidt et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2020Citada por: 17Referências: 51

  • Frankincense in peril

    Open AccessFrans Bongers, Peter Groenendijk et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Referências: 4

  • The forest transformation

    Open AccessSean Sloan, Patrick Meyfroidt et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2019Citada por: 7Referências: 7

  • How People Domesticated Amazonian Forests

    Open AccessCarolina Levis, Bernardo M Flores et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution2018

    For millennia, Amazonian peoples have managed forest resources, modifying the natural environment in subtle and persistent ways. Legacies of past human occupation are striking near archaeological sites, yet we still lack a clear picture of how human management practices resulted in the domestication of Amazonian forests. The general view is that domesticated forests are recognizable by the presence of forest patches dominated by one or a few usef…

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    Open AccessCarolina Levis, Flavia R C Costa et al.ARTICLEScience2017

    Past human influences on Amazonian forest The marks of prehistoric human societies on tropical forests can still be detected today. Levis et al. performed a basin-wide comparison of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data. Plants domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than other species. Furthermore, forests close to archaeological sites often have a higher abundanc…

  • Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

    Open AccessLourens Poorter, Frans Bongers et al.ARTICLENature2016

  • Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

    Open AccessRobin L Chazdon, Eben N Broadbent et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2016

    Models reveal the high carbon mitigation potential of tropical forest regeneration.