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The Coastal and Marine Wiki: an Internet encyclopaedia providing up-todate high quality information for and by coastal and marine professionals Universiteit Gent
Development of a Marine Biological Data Portal within the framework of the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODNet) Universiteit Gent
Development of environmental impact assessment methods for marine sourced products Universiteit Gent
To sustain the needs of growing world population, seas and oceans are becoming heavily exploited. Initially exploited for food and transportation, offshore marine areas are nowadays supplying energy and minerals. Whilst the extraction of terrestrial natural resources led to major environmental consequences (i.e. biodiversity loss), it is crucial to ensure the global environmental sustainability of marine products on their entire life cycle. Life ...
Invasive Alien Species in Belgian marine waters: an information platform and checklist for science and policy support Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
- Since 2006, the ‘VLIZ Alien Species Consortium’ has collected data and information on species that were introduced by humans in marine and brackish habitats and have established reproducing populations in the study area. The consortium consists of a network of experts in marine and brackish environments in Belgium, representing more than 22 different institutions and supported by a secretariat hosted at Flanders Marine Institute VLIZ. ...
Sea (in)sight - From phylogeographical insights to visual local adaptation in marine gobies. KU Leuven
Lokale adaptatie is het proces waarbij individuen zich genetisch aanpassen aan lokale omgevingscondities als gevolg van natuurlijke selectie. Het begrijpen van de moleculaire basis van lokale adaptatie is biologisch van groot belang aangezien dit de rol van natuurlijke selectie in evolutie weergeeft. Daar genmigratie adaptieve divergentie tegengaat door zijn homogeniserend karakter, beweerden biologenvoor lange tijd dat lokale adaptatie zeldzaam ...
Impacts of human activities on the supply of marine ecosystem services : a conceptual model for offshore wind farms to aid quantitative assessments Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
Increased pressures from human activities may cause cumulative ecological effects on marine ecosystems. Increasingly, the study of ecosystem services is applied in the marine environment to assess the full effects of human activities on the ecosystem and on the benefits it provides. However, in the marine environment, such integrated studies have yet to move from qualitative and scorebased to fully quantitative assessments. To bridge this gap, ...
Are well-studied marine biodiversity hotspots still blackspots for animal barcoding? Universiteit Gent
Marine biodiversity underpins ecosystem health and societal well-being. Preservation of biodiversity hotspots is a global challenge. Molecular tools, like DNA barcoding and metabarcoding, hold great potential for biodiversity monitoring, possibly outperforming more traditional taxonomic methods. However, metabarcoding-based biodiversity assessments are limited by the availability of sequences in barcoding reference databases; a lack thereof ...
Linking marine nematode competition dynamics with microbial diversity to understand ecosystem functioning Universiteit Gent
Mariene ecosystemen zijn de grootste aquatische systemen op aarde en worden bewoond door een grote verscheidenheid aan organismen die een belangrijke rol spelen in het functioneren van ecosystemen. Het functioneren van ecosystemen omvat verschillende ecosysteemprocessen en beïnvloedt de levering van goederen en diensten die essentieel zijn voor het menselijk welzijn. Mariene bentische ecosystemen tonen een variatie aan habitats, biologische ...
Structurally stable but functionally disrupted marine microbial communities under a future climate change scenario : potential importance for nitrous oxide emissions Universiteit Gent
Abstract: The blue mussel Mytilus edulis is a widespread and abundant bivalve species along the North Sea with high economic and ecological importance as an engineer species. The shell of mussels is intensively colonized by microbial organisms that can produce significant quantities of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas. To characterize the impacts of climate change on the composition, structure and functioning of microbial biofilms on ...