Stephan Hennekens

Stephan Hennekens is a Researcher at the Vegetation and Landscape Ecology group within Wageningen University & Research. He specializes in biodiversity informatics, vegetation ecology, and habitat classification using artificial intelligence and large-scale datasets.

• Key research areas include European vegetation databases, indicator value systems, and AI-driven habitat mapping.
• Contributor to FloraVeg.EU, ReSurveyEurope, and Dutch Vegetation Database projects.
• Focus on climate change impacts, nitrogen deposition, and ecosystem stability through vegetation analysis.

His recent work involves machine learning for EUNIS habitat classification, continental-scale vegetation modeling, and ecological risk assessment for agricultural and aquatic systems. He has led projects on Natura 2000 and bioindicator systems.