Search Results - "De Meester, Luc"

Urbanization drives cross‐taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales by Piano, Elena, Souffreau, Caroline, Merckx, Thomas, Baardsen, Lisa F., Backeljau, Thierry, Bonte, Dries, Brans, Kristien I., Cours, Marie, Dahirel, Maxime, Debortoli, Nicolas, Decaestecker, Ellen, De Wolf, Katrien, Engelen, Jessie M. T., Fontaneto, Diego, Gianuca, Andros T., Govaert, Lynn, Hanashiro, Fabio T. T., Higuti, Janet, Lens, Luc, Martens, Koen, Matheve, Hans, Matthysen, Erik, Pinseel, Eveline, Sablon, Rose, Schön, Isa, Stoks, Robby, Van Doninck, Karine, Van Dyck, Hans, Vanormelingen, Pieter, Van Wichelen, Jeroen, Vyverman, Wim, De Meester, Luc, Hendrickx, Frederik

“…The increasing urbanization process is hypothesized to drastically alter (semi‐)natural environments with a concomitant major decline in species abundance and…”
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Ecosystem tipping points in an evolving world by Dakos, Vasilis, Matthews, Blake, Hendry, Andrew P., Levine, Jonathan, Loeuille, Nicolas, Norberg, Jon, Nosil, Patrik, Scheffer, Marten, De Meester, Luc

“…There is growing concern over tipping points arising in ecosystems because of the crossing of environmental thresholds. Tipping points lead to abrupt and…”
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Rapid local adaptation mediates zooplankton community assembly in experimental mesocosms by Pantel, Jelena H, Duvivier, Cathy, Meester, Luc De, Vellend, Mark

“…Adaptive evolution can occur over similar timescales as ecological processes such as community assembly, but its particular effects on community assembly and…”
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The bacterioplankton community composition and a host genotype dependent occurrence of taxa shape the Daphnia magna gut bacterial community by Callens, Martijn, De Meester, Luc, Muylaert, Koenraad, Mukherjee, Shinjini, Decaestecker, Ellen

“…ABSTRACT The assembly of host-associated bacterial communities is influenced by a multitude of biotic and abiotic factors. It is essential to gain insight in…”
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Regional neutrality evolves through local adaptive niche evolution by Leibold, Mathew A., Urban, Mark C., De Meester, Luc, Klausmeier, Christopher A., Vanoverbeke, Joost

“…Biodiversity in natural systems can be maintained either because niche differentiation among competitors facilitates stable coexistence or because equal…”
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Evolutionary origins for ecological patterns in space by Urban, Mark C., Strauss, Sharon Y., Pelletier, Fanie, Palkovacs, Eric P., Leibold, Mathew A., Hendry, Andrew P., De Meester, Luc, Carlson, Stephanie M., L. Angert, Amy, T. Giery, Sean

“…Historically, many biologists assumed that evolution and ecology acted independently because evolution occurred over distances too great to influence most…”
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The Fungal Aroma Gene ATF1 Promotes Dispersal of Yeast Cells through Insect Vectors by Christiaens, Joaquin F., Franco, Luis M., Cools, Tanne L., De Meester, Luc, Michiels, Jan, Wenseleers, Tom, Hassan, Bassem A., Yaksi, Emre, Verstrepen, Kevin J.

“…Yeast cells produce various volatile metabolites that are key contributors to the pleasing fruity and flowery aroma of fermented beverages. Several of these…”
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Extensive standing genetic variation from a small number of founders enables rapid adaptation in Daphnia by Chaturvedi, Anurag, Zhou, Jiarui, Raeymaekers, Joost A. M., Czypionka, Till, Orsini, Luisa, Jackson, Craig E., Spanier, Katina I., Shaw, Joseph R., Colbourne, John K., De Meester, Luc

“…We lack a thorough understanding of the origin and maintenance of standing genetic variation that enables rapid evolutionary responses of natural populations…”
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Coding for Life: Designing a Platform for Projecting and Protecting Global Biodiversity by Urban, Mark C, Travis, Justin M J, Zurell, Damaris, Thompson, Patrick L, Synes, Nicholas W, Scarpa, Alice, Peres-Neto, Pedro R, Malchow, Anne-Kathleen, James, Patrick M A, Gravel, Dominique, De Meester, Luc, Brown, Calum, Bocedi, Greta, Albert, Cécile H, Gonzalez, Andrew, Hendry, Andrew P

“…Abstract Time is running out to limit further devastating losses of biodiversity and nature's contributions to humans. Addressing this crisis requires accurate…”
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power of species sorting: Local factors drive bacterial community composition over a wide range of spatial scales by Van der Gucht, Katleen, Cottenie, Karl, Muylaert, Koenraad, Vloemans, Nele, Cousin, Sylvie, Declerck, Steven, Jeppesen, Erik, Conde-Porcuna, Jose-Maria, Schwenk, Klaus, Zwart, Gabriel, Degans, Hanne, Vyverman, Wim, De Meester, Luc

“…There is a vivid debate on the relative importance of local and regional factors in shaping microbial communities, and on whether microbial organisms show a…”
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Ponds and pools as model systems in conservation biology, ecology and evolutionary biology by De Meester, Luc, Declerck, Steven, Stoks, Robby, Louette, Gerald, Van De Meutter, Frank, De Bie, Tom, Michels, Erik, Brendonck, Luc

“…1. Ponds and pools, broadly defined in this paper to include all small and shallow standing waters that permanently or temporarily contain water, are numerous,…”
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How to maximally support local and regional biodiversity in applied conservation? Insights from pond management by Lemmens, Pieter, Mergeay, Joachim, De Bie, Tom, Van Wichelen, Jeroen, De Meester, Luc, Declerck, Steven A J

“…Biodiversity and nature values in anthropogenic landscapes often depend on land use practices and management. Evaluations of the association between management…”
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Invasion of an asexual American water flea clone throughout Africa and rapid displacement of a native sibling species by Mergeay, J, Verschuren, D, Meester, L. de

“…We combined paleogenetic analysis with continent-wide survey of genetic diversity at nuclear and mitochondrial loci to reconstruct the invasion history of a…”
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The Complexity of Urban Eco-evolutionary Dynamics by ALBERTI, MARINA, PALKOVACS, ERIC P., DES ROCHES, SIMONE, DE MEESTER, LUC, BRANS, KRISTIEN I., GOVAERT, LYNN, GRIMM, NANCY B., HARRIS, NYEEMA C., HENDRY, ANDREW P., SCHELL, CHRISTOPHER J., SZULKIN, MARTA, MUNSHI-SOUTH, JASON, URBAN, MARK C., VERRELLI, BRIAN C.

“…Urbanization is changing Earth’s ecosystems by altering the interactions and feedbacks between the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes that…”
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An SNP-based second-generation genetic map of Daphnia magna and its application to QTL analysis of phenotypic traits by Routtu, Jarkko, Hall, Matthew D, Albere, Brian, Beisel, Christian, Bergeron, R Daniel, Chaturvedi, Anurag, Choi, Jeong-Hyeon, Colbourne, John, De Meester, Luc, Stephens, Melissa T, Stelzer, Claus-Peter, Solorzano, Eleanne, Thomas, W Kelley, Pfrender, Michael E, Ebert, Dieter

“…Although Daphnia is increasingly recognized as a model for ecological genomics and biomedical research, there is, as of yet, no high-resolution genetic map for…”
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A link between evolution and society fostering the UN sustainable development goals by De Meester, Luc, Vázquez‐Domínguez, Ella, Kassen, Rees, Forest, Félix, Bellon, Mauricio R., Koskella, Britt, Scherson, Rosa A., Colli, Licia, Hendry, Andrew P., Crandall, Keith A., Faith, Daniel P., Starger, Craig J., Geeta, R., Araki, Hitoshi, Dulloo, Ehsan M., Souffreau, Caroline, Schroer, Sibylle, Johnson, Marc T. J.

“…Given the multitude of challenges Earth is facing, sustainability science is of key importance to our continued existence. Evolution is the fundamental…”
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The first-generation Daphnia magna linkage map by Routtu, Jarkko, Jansen, Bastiaan, Colson, Isabelle, De Meester, Luc, Ebert, Dieter

“…Daphnia magna is a well-established model species in ecotoxicology, ecology and evolution. Several new genomics tools are presently under development for this…”
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Rapid evolution of consumptive and non‐consumptive predator effects on prey population densities, bioenergetics and stoichiometry by Zhang, Chao, De Meester, Luc, Stoks, Robby

“…Predators can strongly influence prey populations not only through consumptive effects (CE) but also through non‐consumptive effects (NCE) imposed by predation…”
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Fitness differences and persistent founder effects determine the clonal composition during population build-up in Daphnia by Thielsch, Anne, Glass, Nicole, Streit, Bruno, Meester, Luc De, Ortells, Raquel, Schwenk, Klaus

“…During the initial stages of population build-up in new habitats, the time at which immigrants arrive may influence their contribution to the population and…”
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Host-genotype dependent gut microbiota drives zooplankton tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria by Macke, Emilie, Callens, Martijn, De Meester, Luc, Decaestecker, Ellen

“…The gut microbiota impacts many aspects of its host’s biology, and is increasingly considered as a key factor mediating performance of host individuals in…”
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