Projects
Special Research Fund Professorship in Plants Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
Effects of veterinary antibiotics on plant-soil interaction, plant performance and plant community composition Vrije Universiteit Brussel
environment, where they affect soil bacteria and the performance of plants and animals. So far, the
basis for environmental risk assessments (ERA) relies on crop species, partly because the phototoxic
ABX-effects on wild species is still insufficiently understood.
We aim to explore ABX-effects on soil processes and on the ...
Assessing the effects of habitat fragmentation on plant pollinator networks in dune slacks using metabarcoding and linking the network structures with plant fitness KU Leuven
A classic prediction of co-evolutionary theory is that mutualists should restrict their associations to a limited number of high-quality partners in order for the interaction to remain stable. However, in practice most mutualists either simultaneously or sequentially associate with multiple partners that confer the same reward. One of the best-known mutualisms is between plants and animal pollinators. In this mutualism, generalist plants that ...
Plant Optical Types to Predict Ecosystem Impacts of Plant Invasions. KU Leuven
Plant species invasions are among the most important threats to the functioning of the earth#s ecosystems. Invasion biologists have mainly focused so far on the effects that invasive plant species have on native populations and communities. The response of ecosystem functioning to invasion has received considerably less attention. Although it has been proposed that invasive species impact can be predicted based on a comparative analysis of ...
Predicting ecosystem changes following invasions: from plant functional types to plant optical types a proof of concept. KU Leuven
Preparing plant conservation for the future: Evolutionary aspects in ex-situ conservation and plant reintroduction Meise Botanic Garden
Combining 11C with cutting-edge plant measurements to unravel plant carbon dynamics in current and future climates Ghent University
Unveiling the mechanism(s) responsible for allocation of carbon to various plant organs for growth, storage or simply for maintenance, is one of the greatest challenges of modern plant science. The balance between these various options has profound consequences for a plant’s development, its suitability for its environment and its harvest yield. It is therefore vital to discover how these options are coordinated. The current research proposal ...