IMIS - Marine Research Groups

Prof. Dr De Meester, Luc
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Publications (36)
Projects (13)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Departement Biologie; Afdeling Dierenecologie en -systematiek; Aquatische Ecologie en Evolutiebiologie, more

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An experimental ecological investigation of the restoration potential of the aquatic ecosystem of 'de Blankaart' by hydrological isolation and foodweb manipulation, more
An interdisciplinary study of the evolution of antipredator mechanisms: aquatic invertebrates as a model, more
Aquaculture of marine species in Chile: bio-technological improvements for reliable and cost-effective production, more
De invloed van habitat-omvang, genmigratie en een metapopulatie-structuur op de genetische diversiteit van lokale zoöplanktonpopulaties, more
Ecological genetics: patterns and processes of genetic variation in natural populations, more
Further exploration, characterization and utilization of the natural brine schrimp Artemia resources in the People's Republic of China, more
Genetical-ecological research in support of nature conservation in Flanders, more
Local genetic differentiation in Branchiopoda (Crustacea) : the importance of restingstages, more
Ontwikkeling van een gedocumenteerde gegevensbank over uitheemse vissoorten in Vlaanderen met bijkomend onderzoek naar de blauwbandgrondel, more
Predatie door macrozoöplankton: een studie van de ecologische en evolutionaire gevolgen van de macrozoöplanktongemeenschapsstructuur op fytoplankton en de componenten van de microbiële lus, more
Productivity, structural diversity and predation as determining factors for aquatic biodiversity, more
Study of the biodiversity of Chinese Artemia strains and their possible application in research and aquaculture, more
Support of a marine component during the Symposium 'Ecological genetics' on 5-7 February 2003 in Leuven, more

A1 Publications (25) [show]
Meerhoff, M.; Audet, J.; Davidson, T.A.; De Meester, L.; Hilt, S.; Kosten, S.; Liu, Z.; Mazzeo, N.; Paerl, H.; Scheffer, M.; Jeppesen, E. (2022). Feedback between climate change and eutrophication: revisiting the allied attack concept and how to strike back. Inland Waters 12(2): 187-204. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2022.2029317, more Urban, M.C.; Travis, J.M.J.; Zurell, D.; Thompson, P.L.; Synes, N.W.; Scarpa, A.; Peres-Neto, P.R.; Malchow, A.-K.; James, P.M.A.; Gravel, D.; De Meester, L.; Brown, C.; Bocedi, G.; Albert, C.H.; Gonzalez, A.; Hendry, A.P. (2022). Corrigendum: Coding for Life: Designing a platform for projecting and protecting global biodiversity. BioScience 72(1): 106. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab127, more Stock, W.; Callens, M.; Houwenhuyse, S.; Schols, R.; Goel, N.; Coone, M.; Theys, C.; Delnat, V.; Boudry, A.; Eckert, E.M.; Laspoumaderes, C.; Grossart, H.-P.; De Meester, L.; Stoks, R.; Sabbe, K.; Decaestecker, E. (2021). Human impact on symbioses between aquatic organisms and microbes. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 87: 113-138. https://dx.doi.org/10.3354/ame01973, more Ger, K.A.; Naus-Wiezer, S.; De Meester, L.; Lürling, M. (2019). Zooplankton grazing selectivity regulates herbivory and dominance of toxic phytoplankton over multiple prey generations. Limnol. Oceanogr. 64(3): 1214-1227. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1002/lno.11108, more Schaffner, L.R.; Govaert, L.; De Meester, L.; Ellner, S.P.; Fairchild, E.; Miner, B.E.; Rudstam, L.G.; Spaak, P.; Hairston Jr, N. (2019). Consumer-resource dynamics is an eco-evolutionary process in a natural plankton community. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(9): 1351-1358. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0960-9, more Raeymaekers, J.A.M.; Chaturvedi, A.; Hablützel, P.I.; Verdonck, I.; Hellemans, B.; Maes, G.E.; De Meester, L.; Volckaert, F.A.M. (2017). Adaptive and non-adaptive divergence in a common landscape. Nature Comm. 8(1): 9 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00256-6, more Scheffers, B.R.; De Meester, L.; Bridge, T.C.L.; Hoffmann, A.A.; Pandolfi, J.M.; Corlett, R.T.; Butchart, S.H.M.; Pearce-Kelly, P.; Kovacs, K.M.; Dudgeon, D.; Pacifici, M.; Rondinini, C.; Foden, W.B.; Martin, T.G.; Mora, C.; Bickford, D.; Watson, J.E.M. (2016). The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people. Science (Wash.) 354(6313). https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf7671, more Asselman, J.; De Coninck, D.I.M.; Vandegehuchte, M.B.; Jansen, M.; Decaestecker, E.; De Meester, L.; Vanden Bussche, J.; Vanhaecke, L.; Janssen, C.R.; De Schamphelaere, K.A.C. (2015). Global cytosine methylation in Daphnia magna depends on genotype, environment, and their interaction. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 34(5): 1056-1061. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/etc.2887, more Lemmens, P.; Mergeay, J.; Vanhove, T.; De Meester, L.; Declerck, S.A.J. (2015). Suppression of invasive topmouth gudgeon Pseudorasbora parva by native pike Esox lucius in ponds. Aquat. Conserv. 25(1): 41-48. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2479, more Lima-Mendez, G.; Faust, K.; Henry, N.; Decelle, J.; Colin, S.; Carcillo, F.; Chaffron, S.; Ignacio-Espinoza, J.C.; Roux, S.; Vincent, F.; Bittner, L.; Darzi, Y.; Wang, J.; Audic, S.; Berline, L.; Bontempi, G.; Cabello, A.M.; Coppola, L.; Cornejo-Castillo, F.M.; De Meester, L.; Ferrera, I.; Garet-Delmas, M.-J.; Guidi, L.; Lara, E.; Pesant, S.; Royo-Llonch, M.; Salazar, G.; Sánchez, P.; Sebastian, M.; Souffreau, C.; Dimier, C.; Picheral, M.; Searson, S.; Kandels-Lewis, S.; Gorsky, G.; Not, F.; Ogata, H.; Speich, S.; Stemmann, L.; Weissenbach, J.; Wincker, P.; Acinas, S.G.; Sunagawa, S.; Bork, P.; Sullivan, M.B.; Karsenti, E.; Bowler, C.; de Vargas, C.; Raes, J. (2015). Determinants of community structure in the global plankton interactome. Science (Wash.) 348(6237): 9 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1262073, more Matthews, B.; De Meester, L.; Jones, C.G.; Ibelings, B.W.; Bouma, T.J.; Nuutinen, V.; van de Koppel, J.; Odling-Smee, J. (2014). Under niche construction: an operational bridge between ecology, evolution, and ecosystem science. Ecol. Monogr. 84(2): 245-263. https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/13-0953.1, more Nedli, J.; De Meester, L.; Major, A.; Schwenk, K.; Szivak, I.; Forro, L. (2014). Salinity and depth as structuring factors of cryptic divergence in Moina brachiata (Crustacea: Cladocera). Fundam. Appl. Limnol. 184(1): 69-85. dx.doi.org/10.1127/1863-9135/2014/0462, more Raeymaekers, J.A.M.; Konijnendijk, N.; Larmuseau, M.H.D.; Hellemans, B.; De Meester, L.; Volckaert, F.A.M. (2014). A gene with major phenotypic effects as a target for selection vs. homogenizing gene flow. Mol. Ecol. 23(1): 162-181. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.12582, more Moss, B.; Kosten, S.; Meerhoff, M.; Battarbee, R.W.; Jeppesen, E.; Mazzeo, N.; Havens, K.; Lacerot, G.; Liu, Z.; De Meester, L.; Paerl, H.; Scheffer, M. (2011). Allied attack: climate change and eutrophication. Inland Waters 1(2): 101-105. https://dx.doi.org/10.5268/IW-1.2.359, more van Gremberghe, I.; Leliaert, F.; Mergeay, J.; Vanormelingen, P.; Van der Gucht, K.; Debeer, A.-E.; Lacerot, G.; De Meester, L.; Vyverman, W. (2011). Lack of phylogeographic structure in the freshwater cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa suggests global dispersal. PLoS One 6(5): e19561. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019561, more Louette, G.; Declerck, S.; Vandekerkhove, J.; De Meester, L. (2009). Evaluation of restoration measures in a shallow lake through the comparison of present day zooplankton communities with historical samples. Restor. Ecol. 17(5): 629-640. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00409.x, more Louette, G.; De Meester, L.; Declerck, S. (2008). Assembly of zooplankton communities in newly created ponds. Freshwat. Biol. 53(11): 2309-2320. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02052.x, more Louette, G.; De Bie, T.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Declerck, S.; De Meester, L. (2007). Analysis of the inland cladocerans of Flanders (Belgium) – Inferring changes over the past 70 years. Belg. J. Zool. 137(1): 117-123, more Declerck, S.; Geenens, V.; Podoor, N.; Conde Porcuna, J.M.; De Meester, L. (2003). Intraspecific density dependence in the dynamics of zooplankton under hypertrophic conditions. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 60(8): 919-928. dx.doi.org/10.1139/f03-077, more Muylaert, K.; Declerck, S.; Geenens, V.; Van Wichelen, J.; Degans, H.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Van Der Gucht, K.; Vloemans, N.; Rommens, W.; Rejas, D.; Urrutia, R.; Sabbe, K.; Gillis, M.; Decleer, K.; De Meester, L.; Vyverman, W. (2003). Zooplankton, phytoplankton and the microbial food web in two turbid and two clearwater shallow lakes in Belgium. Aquat. Ecol. 37(2): 137-150. dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1023988702926, more Naihong, X.; Audenaert, E.; Vanoverbeke, J.; Brendonck, L.; Sorgeloos, P.; De Meester, L. (2000). Low among-population genetic differentiation in Chinese bisexual Artemia populations. Heredity 84: 238-243. https://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00664.x, more Desender, K.; Backeljau, T.; Delahaye, K.; De Meester, L. (1998). Age and size of European saltmarshes and the population genetic consequences for ground beetles. Oecologia 114(4): 503-513. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004420050474, more De Meester, L.; Vandenberghe, J.; Desender, K.; Dumont, H.J. (1994). Genotype-dependent daytime vertical distribution of Daphnia magna in a shallow pond. Belg. J. Zool. 124(1): 3-9, more De Meester, L. (1993). Co-adaptation of life history characteristics and habitat preference in Daphnia (Crustacea, Cladocera), in: Chardon, M. et al. Third Belgian Congress of Zoology, 5-6 November 1993. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 123(Suppl. 1): pp. 19, more De Meester, L.; Vyverman, W. (1993). The vertical distribution of rotifers in a coastal meromictic lake of Papua New Guinea (Lake Nagada, Madang province), in: Chardon, M. et al. Third Belgian Congress of Zoology, 5-6 November 1993. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 123(Suppl. 1): pp. 20, more
Book chapter [show]
Van De Meutter, F.; De Meester, L. (2007). Het effect van vijverdroogzetting op de macroinvertebratengemeenschap in ondiepe, verbonden vijvers, in: Congres watersysteemkennis : studiedag 'Aquatische biodiversiteit' : abstracts van presentaties. pp. 5, more
Reports (2) [show]
De Meester, L.; van Tienderen, P.; Werger, M.; Hector, A.; Wörheide, G.; Niemelä, J.; Aguilar, A.; Smets, E.; Godfray, C.; Sutherland, W.J.; Bauhus, J.; Courchamp, F.; Gandini, G.; Koch, M.; Le Maho, Y.; Manuel, M.; Pawlowski, J.; Quéinnec, E.; Owens, I. (2010). Challenges for biodiversity research in Europe. LERU Advice Paper, 4. League of European Research Universities: Leuven. 18 pp., more De Smedt, P.; Rommens, W.; Declerck, S.; Vyverman, W.; Peeters, B.; Belpaire, C.; Denayer, B.; De Meester, L.; Van Assche, J.; Ollevier, F. (1997). Ecologisch onderzoek in en rond het erkend natuurreservaat 'De Blankaart'. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: Leuven. 91 pp., more
Other publications (8) [show]
Brendonck, L.; De Meester, L.; Riddoch, B. (1998). Genetic differentiation in Branchipodopsis wolfi (Crustacea: Anostraca). Biol. Jb. Dodonaea 65: 112-113, more Cottenie, K.; Enis, S.; De Meester, L. (1998). Zooplankton community structure in 14 interconnected ponds in relation to abiotic and biotic factors. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea 65: 118, more De Meester, L. (1998). Introduction to the symposium. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea 65: 5-6, more De Meester, L.; Michels, E.; Vanoverbeke, J.; Cousyn, C.; Degans, H.; Audenaert, E.; Desender, K.; Maelfait, J.-P. (1998). Population genetic studies on zooplankton: patterns of genetic variation in organisms inhabiting insular habitats as a means of comparing the merits of different nature conservation strategies. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea 65: 129-130, more Desender, K.; Backeljau, T.; Delahaye, K.; De Meester, L. (1998). Age and size of European saltmarshes and its population genetic consequences: a case study on two ground beetle species. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea 65: 142, more Michels, E.; De Meester, L. (1998). The influence of food quality on the phototactic behaviour of Daphnia magna Straus. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea 65: 166, more Vanoverbeke, J.; De Meester, L. (1998). The influence of habitatsize on clonal diversity within populations and on genetic differentiation among populations, in a cyclical parthenogen: Daphnia magna. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea 65: 197, more Decleer, K.; Conde-Porcuna, J.-M.; De Meester, L.; Kuijken, E.; Declerck, S. (1995). Ecologisch herstel van hypertrofe waterplassen: een praktijkvoorbeeld uit Vlaanderen: De Blankaart (Diksmuide, Prov. West-Vlaanderen). Water 35(81): 95, more

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