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Researcher
Erik Verbruggen
- Research Expertise:Microbial ecology of plants and soils
- Keywords:ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION, SPECIES DIVERSITY, Biology
- Disciplines:Climate change, Community ecology, Soil ecology, Terrestrial ecology, Microbiology, Plant biology, Conservation and biodiversity
- Research techniques:metabarcoding of fungi and bacteria, staining and microscopy of mycorrhizal fungi
- Users of research expertise:Stakeholders interested in microbial functioning of soils
Affiliations
- Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change (Research group)
Member
From1 Nov 2014 → Today
Projects
1 - 10 of 20
- Intercropping for Rhizosphere Stimulation.From1 Nov 2025 → TodayFunding: FWO postdoctoral researcher MSCA - Seal of Excellence
- The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agricultural grasslands exposed to increasingly persistent weather patterns (AMFAGPW).From1 Feb 2025 → TodayFunding: HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie-actions (MSCA)
- Enhanced silicate rock weathering (ESW) for climate change mitigation and ecosystem restoration: Panacea or Pandora's box?From1 Nov 2024 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Intercropping for Rhizosphere Stimulation (IRHIS).From1 May 2024 → 30 Apr 2025Funding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- Enhanced silicate rock weathering (ESW) for climate change mitigation and ecosystem restoration: Panacea or Pandora's box?From1 Nov 2023 → 31 Oct 2024Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Soil microbiome structure of warmed grasslands.From1 Jan 2023 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: BOF - projects
- Soil biotic complexity as the engine of ecosystem functions and resistance to disturbance.From1 Oct 2022 → 30 Sep 2025Funding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
- Microbial ecology.From1 Feb 2021 → TodayFunding: BOF - ZAP BOF mandates
- Peatland rewetting in nitrogen-contaminated environments: synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity, climate, water quality and society (PRINCESS).From15 Dec 2020 → 14 Mar 2025Funding: BRAIN-be(Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks)
- Towards a minimization of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions while ensuring crop production.From1 Sep 2020 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship
Publications
1 - 10 of 111
- Effects of microarthropod density on soil fungal community composition in nutrient-poor ecosystems(2025)Published in: Functional ecologyISSN: 0269-8463Volume: 39Pages: 432 - 445
- Silicate rock powder application: perspectives for the use as buffer restoration measure in acidified heathlands(2025)Published in: Restoration ecologyISSN: 1061-2971Volume: 99
- Transcriptomic, biochemical, and microbiome assessments into drought and salinity tolerance in durum wheat mediated by plant growth-promoting bacteria(2025)Published in: Physiology and Molecular Biology of PlantsISSN: 0971-5894Volume: 99
- The soil microbial community as a whole: compositional changes in soil bacterial and eukaryotic communities through time and in times of perturbations(2025)Number of pages: 284
- Road disturbance shifts root fungal symbiont types and reduces the connectivity of plant-fungal co-occurrence networks in mountains(2025)Published in: Molecular ecologyISSN: 0962-1083Volume: 99
- Soil biodiversity and ecosystem functions in grasslands: is more always better?(2025)Published in: Soil biology and biochemistryISSN: 0038-0717Volume: 211Pages: 1 - 11
- More persistent precipitation regimes induce soil degradation(2025)Published in: Geoderma: an international journal of soil scienceISSN: 0016-7061Volume: 455Pages: 1 - 13
- The life cycle of cable bacteria(2025)Number of pages: 246
- Turning up the heat: more persistent precipitation regimes weaken the micro-climate buffering capacity of forage grasses during a hot summer(2025)Published in: Global change biologyISSN: 1354-1013Volume: 31Pages: 1 - 12
- Inactive "ghost" cells do not affect motility and long-range electron transport in filamentous cable bacteria(2025)Published in: Environmental microbiologyISSN: 1462-2912Volume: 27Pages: 1 - 13
Linked dataset
1 - 10 of 11
- Data from: Road disturbance shifts root fungal symbiont types and reduces the connectivity of plant-fungal co-occurrence networks in mountains
- Data from: Turning up the heat: more persistent precipitation regimes weaken the micro-climate buffering capacity of forage grasses during hot summer
- Soil biodiversity and ecosystem functions in grasslands: Is more always better?
- Bioproject PRJEB80869
- Sequencing data associated with: More persistent weather causes a pronounced soil microbial legacy but does not impact subsequent plant communities
- Dataset: Roadside disturbance promotes plant communities with arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in mountain regions worldwide
- Raw data of the microarthropods and decomposition from: Effects of microarthropod density on soil fungal community composition in nutrient-poor ecosystems
- Data from: Can permanent grassland soils with elevated organic carbon buffer negative effects of more persistent precipitation regimes on forage grass performance?
- Dataset associated with: Increasing presence of non-native plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi during a 10-year survey along subarctic mountains roads
- Data associated with Basalt addition improves the performance of young grassland monocultures under more persistent weather featuring longer dry and wet spells