Researcher
Erik Matthysen
- Research Expertise:- Evaluation of landscape connectivity. - Population viability analysisand genetic analysis of (natural) populations.
- Keywords:INFECTION ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY, LANDSCAPE MODEL, POPULATION DYNAMICS, QUANTITATIVE GENETICS, Biology
- Disciplines:Auto-ecology, Biology of adaptation, Parasitology
- Research techniques:- Population and landscape modelling - Neutral genetic markers (DNA, allozymes) - Statistical data analysis
- Users of research expertise:- Administrations - NGOs and consulting agencies involved in spatial planning, nature management, species conservation
Affiliations
- Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO) (Research group)
Member
From1 Oct 2018 → Today - Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO) (Research group)
Responsible
From1 Jan 2008 → 30 Sep 2018
Projects
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- Sustainability and Trust in EU Multilevel Governance (STRATEGO).From1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: Other EU initiatives out of framework
- Linking long-term ecological data across trophic scales in an Open Science framework.From1 Sep 2023 → TodayFunding: Fund Recuperation Fiscal Exemption
- Global Ecosystem Functioning and Interactions with Global Change.From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - Methusalem
- Drivers of individual and temporal variation in host infectiousness: a bird-specific Borrelia as a model system.From1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Sharing knowledge on ticks and tick-borne diseases in relation to management of green domains by the Province of AntwerpFrom21 May 2021 → 31 Aug 2023Funding: Provinces
- The genomic and ecological basis of rapid change in a functionally significant trait: osteoderm evolution in a girdled lizard.From1 Jan 2021 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- BOF Sabbatical leave 2018-2019 Prof. Erik Matthysen.From1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2019Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Abundance of ticks in the Antwerp peri-urban area: policy recommendations for planning of ecological corridors in relation to urban green and health.From1 Mar 2018 → 31 Dec 2018Funding: Provinces
- Global Ecosystem Functioning and Interactions with Global Change.From1 Jun 2016 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: BOF - Methusalem, Methusalem, Fund Recuperation Fiscal Exemption
- An eco-evolutionary network of biotic interactionsFrom1 Jan 2016 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: FWO scientific research network
Publications
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- Ticks and tick-borne diseases in the city(2019)
Authors: Dieter Heylen, Robin Lasters, Frank Adriaensen, M. Fonville, H. Sprong, Erik Matthysen
Pages: 941 - 949 - Life-history strategies of a facultative cooperative breeder in a fragmented Afrotropical cloud forest(2019)
Authors: Dries Van de Loock, Luc Lens, Erik Matthysen
Number of pages: 148 - Accounting for interspecific competition and age structure in demographic analyses of density dependence improves predictions of fluctuations in population size(2019)
Authors: Marlène Gamelon, Stefan J.G. Vriend, Steinar Engen, Frank Adriaensen, André A. Dhondt, Simon R. Evans, Erik Matthysen, Ben C. Sheldon, Bernt-Erik Sæther
Pages: 797 - 806 - Systematic conservation planning in the high Andes of Bolivia(2019)
Authors: Constance Fastré, Erik Matthysen, Diederik Strubbe
Number of pages: 213 - Genetic structure of natterjack toad (**Epidalea calamita**) populations in Flanders, Belgium, and its implications for conservation(2019)
Authors: Joke Maes, Arend Raoul van Oosten, Natalie van Houtte, Erik Matthysen
Pages: 193 - 205 - Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient(2019)
Authors: Viktoriia Radchuk, Thomas Reed, Celine Teplitsky, Martijn van de Pol, Anne Charmantier, Christopher Hassall, Peter Adamik, Frank Adriaensen, Markus P. Ahola, Peter Arcese, et al.
- The potential of species distribution modelling for reintroduction projects(2019)
Authors: Dirk Maes, Sam Ellis, Philippe Goffart, Katie L. Cruickshanks, Chris A.M. van Swaay, Ruddy Cors, Marc Herremans, Kristijn R.R. Swinnen, Carine Wils, Sofie Verhulst, et al.
Pages: 419 - 431 - Experimental study of micro-habitat selection by ixodid ticks feeding on avian hosts(2019)
Authors: Gerardo Fracasso, Erik Matthysen, Andre A. Dhondt, Dieter Heylen
Pages: 1005 - 1014 - Lyme neuroborreliosis and bird populations in northern Europe(2019)
Authors: Atle Mysterud, Dieter Heylen, Erik Matthysen, Aïda Lopez Garcia, Solveig Jore, Hildegunn Viljugrein
- Urbanization drives cross-taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales(2019)
Authors: Elena Piano, Caroline Souffreau, Thomas Merckx, Lisa Furu Baardsen, Thierry Backeljau, Dries Bonte, Kristien, I Brans, Marie Cours, Maxime Dahirel, Nicolas Debortoli, et al.
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