Projects
Experimental extinction as a laboratory model of exposure: mechanisms of generalization and the role of extinction cues. KU Leuven
Systematic study of extinction and re-ignition modelling through finite rate chemistry in LES simulations of buoyant flames Ghent University
LES (Large Eddy Simulations) for turbulence is well established. In turbulent reacting flows, there is a range of options for the modelling of combustion and turbulence - chemistry interaction (TCI). A popular approach in fire simulations is EDC (Eddy Dissipation Concept). It is common practice to assume infinitely fast chemistry to date. However, a model for extinction is required then, which is typically based on temperature or enthalpy. In ...
Targeting skin glycosylation patterns to protect threatened salamanders from disease driven extinction Ghent University
Disease driven amphibian declines are frequently compared to the extinction of dinosaurs and have become an icon of the global biodiversity crisis. The deadly skin disease chytridiomycosis is causing the greatest recorded loss of biodiversity attributable to a disease. The recently introduced chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) is expanding its range in Europe, remains unmitigated and thus poses an imminent threat to ...
MICROMICS - Microclimate- and genomics-informed distribution modeling to improve predictions of species’ range dynamics and extinction risk under environmental change KU Leuven
Monsters of the Apocalypse: A link between Anoxia, Mutation, Extinction, and Stratabound REE Ores Ghent University
Ordovician-Silurian mass-extinctions shaped the evolution of Earth’s biosphere. New data from these events record abrupt changes in the marine C-cycle and global climate that challenge the strongly held cause-and-effect relationship between cooling (glaciation) and extinction. Through a pilot study we have discovered a striking correlation between severely malformed organic-walled fossil plankton and dramatic increases in redox-sensitive ...
Technology development and demonstration of a Light Extinction Spectroscopy (LES) instrument for sub-micron particle characterisation KU Leuven
Death from below: how linking brines, anoxia, mutation, and stratabound ore could solve the enigma of Devonian mass extinction and the World’s REE crisis Ghent University
Here, we test new kill-mechanisms for iconic Devonian mass-extinctions. Our nascent hypothesis suggests that formation of exhalative (sedex) Zn-Pb-Au deposits resulted in global Ocean Anoxic Events. Our novel proxy measures the geochemistry of severely malformed organic-walled fossil plankton, coinciding with the extinctions. Tracing the heavy metal contamination and stratigraphy provides a new tool to pinpoint sedex and associated REE ...
Multifrictional Crops: The Social Lives of Cacao and Oil Palm in Times of Extinction and Hope. University of Antwerp
Past and future habitability in Antarctic lakes: succession, colonization, extinction, and survival in glacial refugia Ghent University
Coupled climate and earth-system models predict increased temperatures and altered precipitation patterns in vast regions of Maritime and coastal Continental Antarctica, which will likely result in more extensive glacial melt and the expansion of ice-free areas, increasing connectivity between regions, and changes in their hydrology. Terrestrial and lacustrine biota in the Antarctic are more globally distinct and biogeographically structured ...