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Myriam de Haan Meise Botanic Garden
Nina Dehnhard University of Antwerp
Kevin Maebe Ghent University
Annemieke Verbeken Ghent University
Cátia Sofia Andrade Dos Santos Ghent University
Eveline Pinseel Meise Botanic Garden Ghent University
Environmental Ecology & Applied Microbiology (ENdEMIC) University of Antwerp
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Lab of Environmental and Urban Ecology - Roeland Samson As human population keeps on growing, pressure on land increases throughout the world. Urbanization is, therefore, a logical consequence, but brings about its own problem as it concentrates many different polluting activities, thereby negatively influencing human health but also having negative impacts on animals and plants. Simultaneously, the urban environment, or the urban ecosystem, ...
Steven B. Janssens Meise Botanic Garden KU Leuven
Environmental Biology Hasselt University
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The group Enviromental Biology has a longstanding experience (since 1976) in the field of heavy metal uptake by plants, the effects of toxic metal concentrations on plants and the transfer of metals to the food chain. The group was involved in several projects concerning the zinc, cadmium and lead contamination in the region Balen, Lommel, Overpelt in the the zinc smelter contaminated area in the north-east of Belgium. They started with ...