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 18
- 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)
- Intercropping for Rhizosphere Stimulation (IRHIS).From1 May 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- Enhanced silicate rock weathering (ESW) for climate change mitigation and ecosystem restoration: Panacea or Pandora's box?From1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: 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 → TodayFunding: 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 → TodayFunding: 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
- Exploring belowground traits in crops and their wild relatives to improve food security in times of drought.From1 Jul 2020 → 30 Jun 2023Funding: FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship
- Development opportunities for Nardus grasslands on selected parcels in Landschap de Liereman.From13 Mar 2020 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: Other Flemish public, semi-private and pararegional institutions not mentioned elsewhere
Publications
1 - 10 of 98
- Soil warming increases the number of growing bacterial taxa but not their growth rates(2024)
Authors: Dennis Metze, Jörg Schnecker, Coline Le Noir de Carlan, Biplabi Bhattarai, Erik Verbruggen, Ivika Ostonen, Ivan Janssens, Bjarni D. Sigurdsson, Bela Hausmann, Christina Kaiser, et al.
Pages: 1 - 14 - Microorganisms in subarctic soils are depleted of ribosomes under short-, medium-, and long-term warming(2024)
Authors: Andrea Sollinger, Laureen S. Ahlers, Mathilde Borg Dahl, Pall Sigurdsson, Coline Le Noir de Carlan, Biplabi Bhattarai, Christoph Gall, Victoria S. Martin, Cornelia Rottensteiner, Liabo L. Motleleng, et al.
Pages: 1 - 10 - Underground connections(2024)
Authors: Irene Ramirez Rojas, Erik Verbruggen, Heidy Schiman
Number of pages: 205 - Roadside disturbance promotes plant communities with arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in mountain regions worldwide(2024)
Authors: Jan Clavel, Jonas Lembrechts, Jonathan Lenoir, Sylvia Haider, Keith McDougall, Martin A. Nunez, Jake Alexander, Agustina Barros, Ann Milbau, Tim Seipel, et al.
Pages: 1 - 14 - Contrasting responses of fine root biomass and traits to large-scale nitrogen and phosphorus addition in tropical forests in the Guiana shield(2024)
Authors: Laynara Figueiredo Lugli, Lucia Fuchslueger, Helena Vallicrosa, Leandro Van Langenhove, Christian Ranits, Pere Roc Fernandez Garberi, Lore Verryckt, Laetitia Brechet, Guille Peguero, Joan Llusia, et al.
Pages: 1 - 14 - Plant-mycorrhizal interactions and their role in plant invasions in mountains(2024)
Authors: Jan Clavel, Jonas Lembrechts, Ivan Nijs, Erik Verbruggen
Number of pages: 182 - Can permanent grassland soils with elevated organic carbon buffer negative effects of more persistent precipitation regimes on forage grass performance?(2024)
Authors: Simon Reynaert, Tommy D’Hose, Hans De Boeck, David Laorden, Liselot Dult, Erik Verbruggen, Ivan Nijs
Pages: 1 - 15 - Shifts in mycorrhizal types of fungi and plants in response to fertilisation, warming and herbivory in a tundra grassland(2024)
Authors: Coline Le Noir de Carlan, Elina Kaarlejarvi, Caroline De Tender, Thilo Heinecke, Anu Eskelinen, Erik Verbruggen
- More persistent rainfall regimes(2024)
Authors: Simon Reynaert, Ivan Nijs, Hans De Boeck, Erik Verbruggen, Tommy D' Hose
Number of pages: 315 - Unraveling microbial processes involved in carbon and nitrogen cycling and greenhouse gas emissions in rewetted peatlands by molecular biology(2024)
Authors: Emilie Gios, Erik Verbruggen, Joachim Audet, Rachel Burns, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Mikk Espenberg, Christian Fritz, Stephan Glatzel, Gerald Jurasinski, Tuula Larmola, et al.
Pages: 609 - 629