Projects
Contrasting population well-being in urban Roman Imperial Sagalassos (Pisidia, SW Turkey) with its Middle Byzantine successor settlement (1st-6th c. CE and 10th-13th c. CE) KU Leuven
Archaeology demonstrates how in different periods and regions, and in different cultures and societies the deceased have been treated in a variety of ways. Building on these differences and considering sets of burials as historical communities represents important scientific potential to approach the well-being of past populations. The proposed project wishes to use human remains to reconstruct nature and quality of past lives. Of course, ...
Genetic history of the medieval population of Sint Truiden KU Leuven
The cross-talk between genomics and humanities in the last decade has revitalized the interdisciplinary study of human past and enables us to address now ever wider range of questions about migration, social structure and health of our ancestors. We can ask questions about them that could not be answered before. While ancient DNA studies have substantially changed our perspectives on European Neolithic and Bronze Age, less progress has been ...
Population viability in fragmented rainforest: integrating individual-based modeling with landscape dynamics and connectivity Ghent University
This project aims to study factors that affect the long-term population viability of Afrotropical bird species for which forest deterioration and isolation act synergistically at different spatial scales. We therefore parameterize and integrate spatially-explicit metapopulation-, forest- and landscape-models that encompass both fine-grained and coarse-grained dynamic processes. Dispersal is studied through controlled release experiments.
One of Darwin's unresolved problems: unravelling the contribution of ecological factors to mating system evolution in Pulmonaria officinalis. KU Leuven
Behavior as an indicator - Development of a monitoring system for pharmaceuticals in aquatic systems. KU Leuven
Pollution is a key environmental problem and a major contributor to global change. Ecotoxicology combines ecology and toxicology to study the effects of pollutants on organisms and ecosystems as a whole, in an attempt to mitigate deleterious effects of environmental pollution. To determine the environmental safety of a chemical compound and to promote the sustainability of ecosystems, ecotoxicological studies use a battery of standardised ...
Evolutionary-ecotoxicological study of the sensitivity to pesticides in aquatic systems under global warming: effects of temperature variation and temperature extremes KU Leuven
In natural ecosystems animals encounter several environmental stressors that furthermore can interact with pollutants and potentially increase their toxicity. This is considered one of the underlying reasons why current ecological risk assessment is possibly failing to protect natural ecosystems as it may be lacking realism by being based on pesticide toxicity testing under standard laboratory conditions. While it is widely known that an ...