Projects
Quantification of mycorrhizal carbon use using a stable isotope approach University of Antwerp
Greening of the tax system in Flanders KU Leuven
This research report provides an update of the MIRA studies of 2004, 2011 and 2013 on the greening of the tax system in Flanders. The study develops and updates indicators for measuring the greening of the tax system for Flanders. Since many of the fiscal competences in Belgium are at the federal level, we study the taxes that apply in Flanders, thus including both Flemish and federal tax measures.
Before providing the update ...
Next-generation Y chromosomal phylogeny for multidisciplinary applications. KU Leuven
The upswing of next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques provides opportunities for improving the human Y chromosomal phylogeny. Firstly, the enormous amount of new NGS data from multiple projects with different accuracies will be combined into a more accurate Y chromosomal phylogeny using acceptable computational power. Secondly, NGS data can be used to study the X-Y conversion on the Y chromosome and how does this affect the validity of ...
Impact of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems and climate change feedbacks of terrestrial ecosystems through exchange of greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4 and N2O). University of Antwerp
An (epi)genetic study of a complex life cycle in a warming world: gene expression patterns across metamorphosis in a damselfly KU Leuven
Global temperatures are rapidly rising and species traits are changing to better cope with warming. Species can adjust to warming in a plastic manner or in a genetic manner, yet the contribution of both processes to respond to recent global warming is not clear. Most animals, including damselflies that heavily react to global warming, have a life cycle with a larval stage separated from the adult stage by metamorphosis. These different life ...
Behavioural plasticity - determining the adaptive significance of parental care. University of Antwerp
Response of the zooplankton community to improving water quality in the Scheldt estuary. University of Antwerp
The impact of forest fragmentation on mycorrhizal communities KU Leuven
Mass conversion of land from a natural to an anthropogenic state has resulted in the reduction and fragmentation of natural habitats. This has severe consequences for biodiversity. In this project we study how forest fragmentation affects an important ecological group, the mycorrhizal fungi, and how this group responds to restoration efforts. We focus on two types of mycorrhiza: arbuscular mycorrhiza (formed between 72% of all land plants and ...