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Leiden University: The Hague, NL

2023-07-17 to present | Assistant Professor (Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs)
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Elisa Van Cleemput

University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO, US

2020-08-01 to 2023-07-16 | Postdoctoral associate (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research)
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Elisa Van Cleemput

KU Leuven: Leuven, BE

2020-02-01 to 2020-06-30 | Postdoctoral associate (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences)
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Elisa Van Cleemput

KU Leuven: Leuven, Vlaanderen, BE

2015-11-01 to 2019-12-18 | PhD student (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences)
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Elisa Van Cleemput

Funding (3)

Impacts of invasive alien species on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

2022 to 2025 | Grant
NASA Headquarters (D.C., D.C., US)
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Elisa Van Cleemput

The potential of hyperspectral imagery to monitor grasslands of Boulder’s OSMP

2022 to 2022 | Grant
City of Boulder (Boulder, Colorado, US)
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Elisa Van Cleemput

INPLANT

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BELSPO (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: SR/01/321
GRANT_NUMBER:

SR/01/391

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Elisa Van Cleemput

Works (15)

Scaling-up ecological understanding with remote sensing and causal inference

Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2025-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Elisa Van Cleemput; Peter B. Adler; Katharine Nash Suding; Alanna Jane Rebelo; Benjamin Poulter; Laura E. Dee
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Aspirational goals for the future of functional traits in restoration: a response to Gornish et al. (2023)

Restoration Ecology
2024-11-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas K. Merchant; Jonathan J. Henn; Isabel de Silva; Elisa Van Cleemput; Katharine N. Suding
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High‐resolution spectral data predict taxonomic diversity in low diversity grasslands

Ecological Solutions and Evidence
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Meghan T. Hayden; Elisa Van Cleemput; Katharine N. Suding; Ann Lezberg; Brian Anacker; Laura E. Dee
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Divergent community trajectories with climate change across a fine‐scale gradient in snow depth

Journal of Ecology
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Meagan F. Oldfather; Sarah C. Elmendorf; Elisa Van Cleemput; Jonathan J. Henn; Jared D. Huxley; Caitlin T. White; Hope C. Humphries; Marko J. Spasojevic; Katharine N. Suding; Nancy C. Emery
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Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity?

Global Ecology and Biogeography
2023-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Elisa Van Cleemput; Peter Adler; Katharine Nash Suding
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Making remote sense of biodiversity in herbaceous ecosystems: Biological characteristics moderate the strength of the relationship between taxonomic and spectral diversity

2023-05-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Elisa Van Cleemput; Peter Adler; Katharine Nash Suding
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Four reasons why functional traits are not being used in restoration practice

Restoration Ecology
2023-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Thomas K. Merchant; Jonathan J. Henn; Isabel de Silva; Elisa Van Cleemput; Katharine N. Suding
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Spectrally defined plant functional types adequately capture multidimensional trait variation in herbaceous communities

Ecological Indicators
2021-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Elisa Van Cleemput; Kenny Helsen; Hannes Feilhauer; Olivier Honnay; Ben Somers
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Optical traits perform equally well as directly-measured functional traits in explaining the impact of an invasive plant on litter decomposition

Journal of Ecology
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85082758287

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13652745 00220477

Contributors: Helsen, K.; Van Cleemput, E.; Bassi, L.; Somers, B.; Honnay, O.
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TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

Global Change Biology
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85075196338

Part of ISBN:

13652486 13541013

Contributors: Kattge, J.; Bönisch, G.; Díaz, S.; Lavorel, S.; Prentice, I.C.; Leadley, P.; Tautenhahn, S.; Werner, G.D.A.; Aakala, T.; Abedi, M. et al.
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Remotely sensed plant traits can provide insights into ecosystem impacts of plant invasions: a case study covering two functionally different invaders

Biological Invasions
2020-12-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Elisa Van Cleemput; Koenraad Van Meerbeek; Kenny Helsen; Olivier Honnay; Ben Somers
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Inter‐ and intraspecific trait variation shape multidimensional trait overlap between two plant invaders and the invaded communities

Oikos
2020-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0030-1299
Part of ISSN: 1600-0706
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Elisa Van Cleemput

A novel procedure for measuring functional traits of herbaceous species through field spectroscopy

Methods in Ecology and Evolution
2019-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Elisa Van Cleemput; Dar A. Roberts; Olivier Honnay; Ben Somers; Sarah Goslee
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The functional characterization of grass- and shrubland ecosystems using hyperspectral remote sensing: trends, accuracy and moderating variables

Remote Sensing of Environment
2018-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Elisa Van Cleemput; Laura Vanierschot; Belén Fernández-Castilla; Olivier Honnay; Ben Somers
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Plasticity of tree architecture through interspecific and intraspecific competition in a young experimental plantation

Forest Ecology and Management
2017 | Journal article
EID:

2-s2.0-84995920177

Part of ISBN:

03781127

Contributors: Van de Peer, T.; Verheyen, K.; Kint, V.; Van Cleemput, E.; Muys, B.
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Peer review (2 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Community ecology. (1)
Review activity for Wetlands. (1)