PD Dr A. Pommerening - Staff Profile

PD Dr Arne Pommerening
Lecturer in Experimental Silviculture & Biometrics

Thoday Building, room F2

Email: arne.pommerening@bangor.ac.uk

Tel: 01248 382440 (from U.K.)
+44 1248 382440 (International)

Fax: 01248 354997 (from U.K.)
+44 1248 354997 (International)

Responsibilities within SENRGY/BU

Welsh language coordinator

Qualifications and Membership of Professional Bodies

Habilitation in Forest Biometrics awarded by BOKU University, Vienna (Austria) in 2009
PhD - Göttingen University (1997)
MSc and BSc in Forest Science - Göttingen University (1995)

Research Interests

Spatial structure of ecosystems, especially Forests
Spatial statistics
Forest biometrics
Continuous cover forestry

Websites

Tyfiant Coed
Website of the Experimental Silviculture Research Group who specialise in Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) and Growth Modelling.

Recent Publications

Pommerening, A., LeMay, V. and Stoyan, D. (2011) Model-based analysis of the influence of ecological processes on forest point pattern formation: a case study. Ecological Modelling 222: 666–678.

Motz, K., Sterba, H. and Pommerening, A. (2010) Sampling measures of tree diversity. Forest Ecology and Management 260: 1985-1996.

Crecente-Campo, F., Pommerening, A. and Rodríguez-Soalleiro, R. (2009) Impacts of thinning on structure, growth and risk of crown fire in a Pinus sylvestris L. plantation in northern Spain. Forest Ecology and Management 257: 1945-1954.

LeMay, V., Pommerening, A. and Marshall, P. (2009) Spatio-temporal structure of multi-storied, multi-aged interior Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca) stands. Journal of Ecology 97: 1062-1074.

Davies, O. and Pommerening, A. (2008) The contribution of structural indices to the modelling of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) and birch (Betula spp.) crowns. Forest Ecology and Management 256: 68-77.

Pommerening, A. and Stoyan, D. (2008) Reconstructing spatial tree point patterns from nearest neighbour summary statistics measured in small windows. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38: 1110-1122.

Mason, W.L., Connolly, T., Pommerening, A. and Edwards, C. (2007) Spatial structure of semi-natural and plantation stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in northern Scotland. Forestry 80: 567-586.

Pommerening, A. (2006) Evaluating structural indices by reversing forest structural analysis. Forest Ecology and Management 224: 266-277.

Pommerening, A. and Stoyan, D. (2006) Edge-correction needs in estimating indices of spatial forest structure. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 1723-1739.