Isaac Ahanamungu Makelele

Net primary productivity and carbon allocation along secondary succession in a central African tropical forest

Isaac Ahanamungu Makelele, Kris Verheyen (UGent) , Pascal Boeckx (UGent) , Viktor Van de Velde (UGent) , Cizungu Ntaboba Landry (UGent) , Basile Mujinya Bazirake (UGent) , Faustin Boyemba Bosela, Fabrice Kimbesa, Jonathan Bachiseze Magala, Joseph Lokana Mande (UGent) , et al.

(2026) NEW PHYTOLOGIST.

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Makelele et al. 2025 - New Phytologist

Isaac Ahanamungu Makelele and Marijn Bauters (UGent)

(2025)

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Soil geochemistry – and not topography – as a major driver of carbon allocation, stocks, and dynamics in forests and soils of African tropical montane ecosystems

Benjamin Bukombe, Marijn Bauters (UGent) , Pascal Boeckx (UGent) , Landry Ntaboba Cizungu, Matthew Cooper, Peter Fiener, Laurent Kidinda Kidinda, Isaac Ahanamungu Makelele, Daniel Iragi Muhindo, Boris Rewald, et al.

(2022) NEW PHYTOLOGIST. 236(5). p.1676-1690

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Lianas rapidly colonize early stages of tropical forests, presumably through leaf trait diversification

Francis Mumbanza Mundondo (UGent) , Marijn Bauters (UGent) , Isaac Ahanamungu Makelele, Félicien Meunier (UGent) , Elizabeth Kearsley, Pascal Boeckx (UGent) , Kris Verheyen (UGent) , Corneille Ewango, Innocent M. Mbula, Constantin A. Lubini, et al.

(2022) JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE. 33(6).

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Ecology and biogeochemistry of secondary succession in a central African lowland forest

Isaac Ahanamungu Makelele

(2022)

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Conservative N cycling despite high atmospheric deposition in early successional African tropical lowland forests

Isaac Ahanamungu Makelele, Marijn Bauters (UGent) , Kris Verheyen (UGent) , Matti Barthel, Johan Six, Tobias Rütting, Samuel Bodé (UGent) , Landry Cizungu Ntaboba, Basile Mujinya Bazirake, Faustin Boyemba Bosela, et al.

(2022) PLANT AND SOIL. 477(1-2). p.743-758

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Increasing calcium scarcity along Afrotropical forest succession

Marijn Bauters (UGent) , Ivan A. Janssens, Daniel Wasner, Sebastian Doetterl, Pieter Vermeir (UGent) , Marco Griepentrog, Travis W. Drake, Johan Six, Matti Barthel, Simon Baumgartner, et al.

(2022) NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION. 6(8). p.1122-1131

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Tropical wood stores substantial amounts of nutrients, but we have limited understanding why

Marijn Bauters (UGent) , Oriol Grau, Sebastian Doetterl, Katherine D. Heineman, James W. Dalling, Cecilia M. Prada, Marco Griepentrog, Yadvinder Malhi, Terhi Riutta, Marina Scalon, et al.

(2022) BIOTROPICA. 54(3). p.596-606

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Low N2O and variable CH4 fluxes from tropical forest soils of the Congo Basin

Matti Barthel, Marijn Bauters (UGent) , Simon Baumgartner, Travis W. Drake, Nivens Mokwele Bey, Glenn Bush, Pascal Boeckx (UGent) , Clement Ikene Botefa, Nathanaël Dériaz, Gode Lompoko Ekamba, et al.

(2022) NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. 13.

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In-depth analysis of N2O fluxes in tropical forest soils of the Congo Basin combining isotope and functional gene analysis

Nora Gallarotti, Matti Barthel, Elizabeth Verhoeven, Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira, Marijn Bauters (UGent) , Simon Baumgartner, Travis W. Drake, Pascal Boeckx (UGent) , Joachim Mohn, Manon Longepierre, et al.

(2021) ISME JOURNAL. 15(11). p.3357-3374

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Isaac Ahanamungu Makelele

Net primary productivity and carbon allocation along secondary succession in a central African tropical forest

Makelele et al. 2025 - New Phytologist

Soil geochemistry – and not topography – as a major driver of carbon allocation, stocks, and dynamics in forests and soils of African tropical montane ecosystems

Lianas rapidly colonize early stages of tropical forests, presumably through leaf trait diversification

Ecology and biogeochemistry of secondary succession in a central African lowland forest

Conservative N cycling despite high atmospheric deposition in early successional African tropical lowland forests

Increasing calcium scarcity along Afrotropical forest succession

Tropical wood stores substantial amounts of nutrients, but we have limited understanding why

Low N2O and variable CH4 fluxes from tropical forest soils of the Congo Basin

In-depth analysis of N2O fluxes in tropical forest soils of the Congo Basin combining isotope and functional gene analysis

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