Publicaties
Working Group on Fisheries Benthic Impact and Trade-offs (WGFBIT; outputs from 2021 meeting) (with contributions of Gert Van Hoey and Jochen Depestele). Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
In this report, new fishery benthic impact assessments are carried out for several sub-regions in the Mediterranean (Greek waters, South Adriatic Sea, Sicily waters). For other regions, updates of the whole ...
Use of benthic vs planktonic organic matter by sandy-beach organisms: a food tracing experiment with (13)C labelled diatoms Universiteit Gent
Nematodes alter the taxonomic and functional profiles of benthic bacterial communities Instituut voor Landbouw-, Visserij- en Voedingsonderzoek
Marine sediments cover 70% of the Earth's surface, and harbour diverse bacterial communities critical for marine biogeochemical processes, which affect climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Nematodes, the most abundant and species-rich metazoan organisms in marine sediments, in turn, affect benthic bacterial communities and bacterial-mediated ecological processes, but the underlying mechanisms by which they affect ...
Tidal inlets in the Anthropocene : geomorphology and benthic habitats of the Chioggia inlet, Venice Lagoon (Italy) Universiteit Gent
Seasonal variation in benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages and water quality in an Afrotropical river catchment, northeastern Tanzania Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
Population growth and economic development have resulted in increased water demands, threatening freshwater resources. In riverine ecosystems, continuous monitoring of the river quality is needed to follow up on their ecological condition in the light of water pollution and habitat degradation. However, in many parts of the world, such monitoring is lacking, and ecological indicators have not been defined. In this study, we assessed seasonal ...