Researcher
Kristian Hostens
- Disciplines:Animal ecology, Marine ecology, Environmental management, Environmental monitoring, Aquatic biology, Behavioural ecology, Ecosystem services, Community ecology
Affiliations
- Animal Sciences (Research unit)
Responsible
From1 Jan 2019 → Today - Aquatic Environment and Quality (Division)
Responsible
From1 Jan 2012 → 31 Dec 2018 - Fisheries (Division)
Responsible
From1 Sep 2004 → 31 Dec 2011
Projects
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- Contaminants of emerging concern: An integrated approach for assessing impacts on the marine environmentFrom1 Jan 2024 → Today
- Microplastic Contamination in agricultural Soil ecosystems and the effect on soil and plant healthFrom1 May 2023 → Today
- Sustainable use of sand in nature-based solutionsFrom1 Feb 2023 → Today
- Distribution and migration of commercial fish stocks, i.e. sole in the UK watersFrom1 Oct 2022 → 31 Dec 2023
- Chemical emissions from offshore wind farms: assessing impacts, gaps and opportunitiesFrom21 Sep 2022 → Today
- Capturing the potential of gene editing for a sustainable bioeconomyFrom1 Sep 2022 → Today
- Ecosystem based management for sustainable fisheries and healthy marine ecosystemsFrom1 Sep 2021 → Today
- Automated biodiversity monitoring in the North Sea through eDNAFrom1 Sep 2021 → 30 Nov 2023
- Climate Change Effects on Exploited Marine Communities (MAESTRO)From1 Jun 2021 → Today
- Development and maintenance of the European Marine Observation and Data Network – Former Lot No 6 - BiologyFrom20 Apr 2021 → 19 Apr 2023
Publications
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- Comparative study of traditional and DNA-based methods for environmental impact assessment: A case study of marine aggregate extraction in the North Sea(2024)
Authors: Laure Van den Bulcke, Annelies De Backer, Hans Hillewaert, Sara Maes, Stephie Seghers, Willem Waegeman, Jan Wittoeck, Kristian Hostens, Sofie Derycke
- Vertical and horizontal environmental DNA (eDNA) patterns of fish in a shallow and well-mixed North Sea area(2024)
Authors: Isolde Cornelis, Sara Maes, Kristian Hostens, Annelies De Backer, Sofie Derycke
- Environmental DNA for monitoring the impact of offshore wind farms on fish and invertebrate community structures(2024)
Authors: Isolde Cornelis, Annelies De Backer, Sara Maes, Joran Vanhollebeke, Rein Brys, Tom Ruttink, Kristian Hostens, Sofie Derycke
- Assessing the risk of booster biocides for the marine environment: A case study at the Belgian part of the North Sea(2023)
Authors: David Vanavermaete, Kristian Hostens, Gert Everaert, Koen Parmentier, Colin Janssen, Bavo De Witte
- Effects of offshore wind farms on the ecology of flatfish: a case study on plaice pleuronectes platessa(2023)
Authors: Jolien Buyse, Annelies De Backer, Kristian Hostens
Pages: 43-60 - European plaice movements show evidence of high residency, site fidelity, and feeding around hard substrates within an offshore wind farm(2023)
Authors: Jolien Buyse, Jan Reubens, Kristian Hostens, Steven Degraer, Jolien Goossens, Annelies De Backer
- Understanding the impact of sand extraction on benthic ecosystem functioning: a combination of functional indices and biological trait analysis(2023)
Authors: Nanou Goedefroo, Ulrike Braeckman, Kristian Hostens, Jan Vanaverbeke, Tom Moens, Annelies De Backer
- DNA metabarcoding on repeat: Sequencing data of marine macrobenthos are reproducible and robust across labs and protocols(2023)
Authors: Laure Van den Bulcke, Annelies De Backer, Jan Wittoeck, Kevin Beentjes, Sara Maes, Magdalini Chrisodoulou, Pedro Martinez Arbizu, Rumakanta Sapkota, Berry Van Der Hoorn, Anne Winding, et al.
- Detection and quantification of two commercial flatfishes (Solea solea and Pleuronectes platessa) in the North Sea using environmental DNA(2023)
Authors: Sarah Maes, Sam Desmet, Rein Brys, Klaas Sys, Tom Ruttink, Sara Maes, Kristian Hostens, Lies Vansteenbrugge, Sofie Derycke
- Increased food availability at offshore wind farms affects trophic ecology of plaice Pleuronectes platessa(2023)
Authors: Jolien Buyse, Kristian Hostens, Degraer Steven, Marleen De Troch, Jan Wittoeck, Annelies De Backer
Linked dataset
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- Supplementary material 2: Towards harmonization of DNA metabarcoding for monitoring marine macrobenthos: the effect of technical replicates and pooled DNA extractions on species detection. Metabarcoding and Metagenomics 5: e71107. https://doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.5.71107 (Creator)
- Towards harmonization of DNA metabarcoding for monitoring marine macrobenthos: the effect of technical replicates and pooled DNA extractions on species detection (Creator)
- ddPCR Quantasoft Files for quantification of Atlantic salmon (Creator)
- Otolith microstructures analysis of juveniles sole (Solea solea L.) in the Southern North Sea (Creator)
- Using acoustic telemetry to study local and larger scale movements of plaice in relation to a Belgian offshore wind farm (Creator)
- Microplastics In Fish Gastrointestinal Tracts sampled in 2020 in the North Sea (MICROFISH project) (Creator)
- DataSetSubstitutionStudyBelgiumDeconincketal (Creator)