Ben Somers

Research Institute for Nature and Forest — Belgium

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Remote Sensing in Agriculture(153), Land Use and Ecosystem Services(73), Species Distribution and Climate Change(47), Remote-Sensing Image Classification(39), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications(39)

Publications332 total

Understanding climate-friendly gardening behaviour and its climate impact
Urban forestry & urban greening·2025
Integrating remote sensing, expert knowledge, and field data can accurately identify and prioritise ecosystem shifts in semi-arid savannas
Environmental Research Communications·2025Open Access
Higher tree diversity reduces critical slowing down in the Amazon forest
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Isolated fallopian tube torsion due to a large paratubal cyst in an adolescent patient
BMJ Case Reports·2025· 1 cited
Critical slowing down precedes regime shifts in a Miombo woodland in Zambia
Environmental Research Letters·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Urban forests or urban savannas? Tailoring cooling strategies to spatial and temporal variability in urban environments
2025Open Access
Yes, we can! The effect of collective versus individual action framing on the acceptance of hard climate adaptation policy instruments
Behavioural Public Policy·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Woody cover and geology as regional‐scale determinants of semi‐arid savanna stability
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
How repeated droughts impact the stability of the Amazon forest
2025Open Access
ChromaFormer: A Scalable and Accurate Transformer Architecture for Land Cover Classification
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Dealing with sub-pixel landscape elements in distributed rainfall-runoff modelling in agricultural catchments
International Soil and Water Conservation Research·2025Open Access
Generic spectral library framework for urban land cover mapping with optical remote sensing imagery
Environmental Modelling & Software·2025
Planting contexts affect urban tree species classification using airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR imagery
Landscape and Urban Planning·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
Multiple Associations between Socioeconomic Disparities and Green Space Exposure: An Ecological Study of the 3+30+300 Rule
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Predictability of abrupt shifts in dryland ecosystem functioning
Nature Climate Change·2025· 14 citedOpen Access
Residential greenness and pollen exposure across gestational trimesters in relation to preschool wheezing: Results for the PIPO birth cohort
Environmental Research·2024Open Access
Field-Level Classification of Winter Catch Crops Using Sentinel-2 Time Series: Model Comparison and Transferability
Remote Sensing·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
From gardens to neighbourhoods: Characterizing the climate adaptation contribution of the garden landscape in Flanders
Urban forestry & urban greening·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Substrate pH mediates growth promotion and resilience to water stress of Tilia tomentosa seedlings after Ectomycorrhizal inoculation
BMC Plant Biology·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Urban green space, human heat perception and sleep quality: A repeated cross-sectional study
Environmental Research·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Pol Coppin(18), Stephanie Delalieux(9), Olivier Honnay(8), Willem W. Verstraeten(8), Laurent Tits(7), Raf Aerts(7), Gregory P. Asner(6), Wanda De Keersmaecker(6), Stef Lhermitte(6), Jan Stuckens(4), Jonathan Lenoir(4), Jeroen Degerickx(4), Jan Verbesselt(4), Michael Ewald(3), Sandra Skowronek(3), Tarek Hattab(3), Hannes Feilhauer(3), Sebastian Schmidtlein(3), Duccio Rocchini(3), Ruben Van De Kerchove(3)