prof. dr. ir. C. (Chris) Smit
Professor in Experimental Conservation Ecology
Expertise
community ecology, plant communities, plant-plant interactions, facilitation, grazing, vertebrate herbivory, rewilding, seed predation, tree recruitment, exclosure studies, ecology of fear, return of the wolf, trophic cascades, predation, feral cats, half-open woodlands, salt marshes, semi-arid steppes, temperate forests, Juniperus communis
Other positions
- OBN Advies Commissie (2024 - present)
- Raad voor Dierenaangelegenheden (RDA), Forum Wolf (2023)
- Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting, Chair Organising Committee (2022 - present)
- Maatschappelijk Adviesraad Staatsbosbeheer, Drenthe (2022 - present)
- Scientific Advisory Board, ARK Nature, De Wilde Denktank (2020 - present)
- Plant Ecology - editorial board member (until 2020)
- Plant Biology - editorial board member (until 2018)
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