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Researcher
Roel Merckx
- Disciplines:Soil sciences, challenges and pollution, Agriculture, land and farm management
Affiliations
- Soil and Water Management (Division)
Member
From1 Aug 2020 → 30 Sep 2022 - Division of Soil and Water Management (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 1999 → 31 Jul 2020
Projects
1 - 10 of 31
- Adapting to climate-resilient farming systems in Western Kenya: the sustainable path by embedding agroecology in research, education and outreach(ADCLIM)From1 Sep 2022 → TodayFunding: VLIR-UOS TEAM
- Fekadu Beyene Aleka: LIAS fellow for May 2022 project on societal aspects of climate changeFrom1 May 2022 → 31 May 2022Funding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- An evaluation of the potential of Robusta coffee in agro-silvicultural systems in the Congo basinFrom17 Sep 2020 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Mycorrhizal inoculation for a more profitable and resilient cassava sector - The use of stable isotope proxies to assess cassava water use efficiencyFrom28 Jul 2020 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Linking root functioning and rhizosphere associations to drought tolerance in cassava by using stable isotope techniques.From1 Jan 2020 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- Bridging knowledge to the field: an evaluation of the agronomic and socio-economic potential of Robusta coffee genetic resources as a cash cropin the Congo Basin.From15 Dec 2019 → TodayFunding: BRAIN-be(Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks)
- Novel stable isotope techniques to unravel differences in water use efficiency of cassava cultivars. A key to intensify cassava productivity in Sub-Sahara AfricaFrom13 Feb 2018 → 13 Feb 2022Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Estimation of 'True' Soil Moisture using Satellite-Based Microwave Observations from SMOS and SMAPFrom1 Jan 2017 → 31 Dec 2019Funding: FWO research grant KAN
- Institutional University Cooperation with Arba Minch University.in Ethiopia.From1 Mar 2016 → TodayFunding: VLIR-UOS Institutional University Cooperation Program (IUC)
- Reuse of phosphorus from organic waste streams in agriculture - an experimental analysis of the sustainabilityFrom1 Jan 2016 → 19 Nov 2021Funding: FWO Strategic Basic Research Grant
Publications
1 - 10 of 152
- Datasets from fertilized improved and local varieties of cassava grown in the highlands of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo(2024)
Authors: Rony Swennen, Roel Merckx
- Multiple taxa inoculants of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhanced colonization frequency, biomass production, and water use efficiency of cassava (Manihot esculenta)(2023)
Authors: Roel Merckx, Olivier Honnay
- Datasets from fertilized improved and local varieties of cassava grown in the highlands of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo(2023)
Authors: Rony Swennen, Roel Merckx
- Increased cassava growth and yields through improved variety use and fertilizer application in the highlands of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo(2023)
Authors: Rony Swennen, Roel Merckx
- Water deficit and potassium affect carbon isotope composition in cassava bulk leaf material and extracted carbohydrates(2023)
Authors: Jonas Van Laere, Roel Merckx
- Maize stover transfers from maize fields to banana-based agroforestry homegardens and the corresponding nutrient flows in central-northern Tanzania(2023)
Authors: Rony Swennen, Roel Merckx
- Drought stress in banana - assessment tools and underlying carbon dynamics(2023)
Authors: Mathilde Vantyghem, Roel Merckx, Steven Bouillon
- Better Nitrogen Fertilizer Management Improved Mchare Banana Productivity and Profitability in Northern Highlands, Tanzania(2023)
Authors: Rony Swennen, Roel Merckx
- Early planting of cassava enhanced the response of improved cultivars to potassium fertilization in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo(2023)
Authors: Jonas Van Laere, Roel Merckx
- 13C labeling unravels carbon dynamics in banana between mother plant, sucker and corm under drought stress(2023)
Authors: Mathilde Vantyghem, Roel Merckx