Researcher
Dirk Verschuren
- Keywords:aquatic ecology, Africa, paleoecology, paleoclimatology, climate change, Quaternary, limnology
- Disciplines:Quaternary environments, Palaeoclimatology, Aquatic biology, Palaeo-ecology, Limnology, Climate change, Geoarchaeology
Affiliations
- Biology (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 1993 → Today
Projects
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- Assembling and integrating datasets of the timing and amplitude of historical lake-level fluctuation in Kenya’s Rift Valley lakesFrom1 May 2023 → TodayFunding: VLIR-UOS Global Minds
- Untangling the drivers of parasite diversity along gradients of natural and anthropogenic variables in a tropical crater-lake system (Kasenda, Uganda).From1 Jan 2023 → 31 Jan 2023Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Hydrological response of Rift Valley lakes in Kenya to the shifting rainfall patterns associated with anthropogenic climate changeFrom1 Jan 2020 → 31 Aug 2022Funding: VLIR-UOS ACROPOLIS (former O*platformen)
- Congo Air Boundary dynamics and its impact on East-African rainfall at multiple time scalesFrom1 Oct 2018 → 30 Sep 2021Funding: FWO fellowships
- Untangling the drivers of parasite diversity along gradients of natural and anthropogenic variables in a tropical crater-lake system (Kasenda, Uganda).From1 Oct 2018 → 31 Dec 2022Funding: FWO fellowships
- Half-precessional orbital forcing, the Congo Air Boundary, and geographical diversity in Africa's post-glacial climate historyFrom1 Jan 2018 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Fossil spores of coprophilous fungi in Ugandan lake sediments: expanding the biological toolbox to reconstruct the history of pastoralism in East AfricaFrom1 Oct 2017 → 30 Sep 2021Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- TRAIL TRojan snAILs: the role of gastropod snails in disease transmission revealed by state-of-the-art molecular techniquesFrom15 Dec 2016 → 31 Oct 2020Funding: BRAIN-be(Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks)
- mandate Francqui research professor for prof. Dirk VerschurenFrom1 Oct 2016 → 30 Sep 2020Funding: Foundations, funds and other with scientific goal
- Climate and environmental history of East Africa since the origin of modern humans: recovering a continuous 250.000-year lake sediment sequence from Lake Challa near Mt. KilimanjaroFrom1 May 2016 → 30 Apr 2020Funding: FWO Medium Size Research Infrastructure
Publications
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- Accelerated soil erosion and sedimentation associated with agricultural activity in crater-lake catchments of Western Uganda(2023)
Authors: Wannes De Crop, Dirk Verschuren, Nick Ryken, Rose Basooma, Ann Verdoodt
- High-throughput sequencing and marker pigment analysis of freshwater phytoplankton : a direct comparison with microscopic count data in the tropical crater lakes of Western Uganda(2023)
Authors: Heidi Tanttu, Dirk Verschuren, Wannes De Crop, Angela Nankabirwa, Christine Cocquyt, Bjorn Tytgat, Elie Verleyen
- Reversed Holocene temperature-moisture relationship in the Horn of Africa(2023)
Authors: A. J. Baxter, Dirk Verschuren, F. Peterse, Diego Miralles, C. M. Martin-Jones, A. Maitituerdi, Thijs Van der Meeren, Maarten Van Daele, C. S. Lane, G. H. Haug, et al.
Pages: 336 - 343 - Checklist of the diatoms (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Naivasha, Kenya, with some historical notes(2023)
Authors: Christine Cocquyt, Dirk Verschuren
Pages: 101 - 174 - Depositional history of Lake Chala (Mt. Kilimanjaro, equatorial East Africa) from high-resolution seismic stratigraphy(2022)
Authors: Aihemaiti Maitituerdi, Maarten Van Daele, Dirk Verschuren, Marc De Batist, Nicolas Waldmann
- Simultaneous genotyping of snails and infecting trematode parasites using high-throughput amplicon sequencing(2022)
Authors: Cyril Hammoud, Stephen Mulero, Bert Van Bocxlaer, Jerome Boissier, Dirk Verschuren, Christian Albrecht, Tine Huyse
Pages: 567 - 586 - A predominantly tropical influence on late Holocene hydroclimate variation in the hyperarid central Sahara(2022)
Authors: Thijs Van der Meeren, Dirk Verschuren, Florence Sylvestre, Yacoub A. Nassour, Evi Naudts, Luis Aguilar Ortiz, Pierre Deschamps, Kazuyo Tachikawa, Edouard Bard, Mathieu Schuster, et al.
- Seasonal and multi-annual variation in the abundance of isoprenoid GDGT membrane lipids and their producers in the water column of a meromictic equatorial crater lake (Lake Chala, East Africa)(2021)
Authors: A. J. Baxter, L. G. J. van Bree, F. Peterse, E. C. Hopmans, L. Villanueva, Dirk Verschuren, J. S. Sinninghe Damste
- Mixing regimes in the equatorial crater lakes of western Uganda(2021)
Authors: Wannes De Crop, Dirk Verschuren
- Atmospheric controls on precipitation isotopes and hydroclimate in high-elevation regions in Eastern Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum(2021)
Authors: Sloane Garelick, James M. Russell, Sylvia Dee, Dirk Verschuren, Daniel O. Olago