Projects
Better Quantifying Ecosystem Services through Digital Twins of Urban Trees Ghent University
Urban green infrastructure provides a multitude of ecosystem services. Data-based management of green infrastructure is crucial for effective urban climate adaptation and mitigation. City trees are a key component of urban green infrastructure playing an unparalleled role in offsetting heat island effects and capturing anthropogenic carbon emissions. The current, simple tools for the quantification of urban ecosystem services delivered by ...
AnaEE-Flanders: Integrated infrastructure for experimental ecosystem research Hasselt University
Impact of land use on silica fluxes: an ecosystem signature study. University of Antwerp
3D Biomimetic model of the gut epithelium to understand the interactions between host and small intestine microbial ecosystem Ghent University
The human gut microbiome is a key determinant of human health, with extensive research assessing the colonic and fecal microbiomes at different levels. Studies of the small intestinal microbiota are underrepresented in the scientific publications due to the difficulty to sampling this anatomical site. This proposal aims to develop a 3D small intestine ecosystem model resembling the human microbiota and the host interphase at the small ...
Single and combined effects of warming and predator-induced stress in an aquatic insect: from physiology to ecosystem functions KU Leuven
There is increasing awareness that predators not only affect prey through direct consumption, but also without consuming them through ‘fear’ effects. These fear effects, which may even be stronger than direct consumption, operate through physiological stress in the prey. While the general stress response is well-documented in vertebrates, the underlying mechanisms and consequences remain poorly known in invertebrates. By using the damselfly ...
Urban ecosystem services: while plants do their job, do policies do theirs? Hasselt University
NAIADES: A holistic water ecosystem for digitisation of urban water sector Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ecosystem envisions transforming water sector through automated and smarter water resource management and environmental monitoring, achieving a high level of water services in both residential or commercial consumers, exploiting the efficient use of physical and digital components of water ecosystem.
NAIADES will apply in various situations on diverse big data in terms of sources, data types, and entities ...
Multifunctionality in agriculture: impact of hedgerows, grass strips and extensive grassland management on crops, regulating ecosystem services and biodiversity Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The central question in this (completed) project is: Can we develop a solid framework to choose and implement nature-oriented measures on agricultural land, so that an optimal balance between agricultural production and ecosystem services/biodiversity is obtained? The project specifically studied these measures: hedgerows and grass strips on the plot edges, and an adapted (extensive) ...