Projects

Chosen filters:
Chosen filters:

1 - 10 of 857 results

Sorteren op
Search term:

Safeguarding Soil with Plants: Exploring Phytoremediation for PFAS Cleanup. (PLANTS) University of Antwerp

Lieven Bervoets
Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change, Hasselt University, Ecosphere
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are synthetic pollutants extensively used in various industrial and consumer products, leading to their widespread presence in the environment and organisms. Given the associated human health risks and significant ecological impact of PFAS contamination in soil, remediation is imperative. However, PFAS exhibit high persistence, posing substantial challenges to effective remediation. Current techniques ...

Intrenational Thematic Network - Plant Biotechnology and breeding 2023-2024 (Plant B+B ) Ghent University

Godelieve Gheysen
Department of Biotechnology

“Plant Biotechnology and Breeding(Plant B+B)” is a network established to foster and contribute to the advancement of global scientific knowledge and unite international institutions’ expertise.

Our platform is composed by biotechnologists, geneticists, bioinformaticians, breeders, economists, journalists, experts on bio-regulatory affairs, and philosophers. Plant B+B intends to unite human capacity, expertise and resources for ...

International Thematic Network - Plant Biotechnology and breeding 2022-2023 (PLANT B+B) Ghent University

Godelieve Gheysen
Department of Biotechnology

“Plant Biotechnology and Breeding(Plant B+B)” is a network established to foster and contribute to the advancement of global scientific knowledge and unite international institutions’ expertise.

Our platform is composed by biotechnologists, geneticists, bioinformaticians, breeders, economists, journalists, experts on bio-regulatory affairs, and philosophers. Plant B+B intends to unite human capacity, expertise and resources for ...

The influence of nutrient availability on plant production and on above- and belowground diversity across grasslands worldwide. University of Antwerp

Sara Vicca
Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change
Herbaceous Diversity Network (HerbDivNet, including 30 grassland sites distributed across 19 countries and 6 continents) recently demonstrated that grassland plant diversity peaks at intermediate productivity. While climate was accounted for in their analyses of the relationship between plant diversity and productivity, as usual, belowground factors such as nutrient availability and microbial diversity were not. However, nutrient availability is ...

Understanding key-bottlenecks during habitat restoration: the interplay between availability of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant population genetic diversity. KU Leuven

Olivier Honnay
Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation, University of Tartu
Increasing land-use intensity across Europe has brought along the loss of many natural habitats and a rapid decrease in biodiversity. There is an urgent need for solutions to alleviate these negative effects, and the restoration of degraded habitats is generally considered to be the key to halting further biodiversity loss. The restoration of self-sustainable plant populations is critical for successful habitat restoration. Two of the ...

The impact of partner diversity and mate availability on plant-pollinator network structure and plant fitness KU Leuven

Hans Jacquemyn
Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation
A classic prediction of co-evolutionary theory is that mutualists restrict their associations to a limited number of high-quality partners in order for the interaction to remain stable. However, in practice most mutualists either simultaneously or sequentially associate with multiple partners that confer the same reward. One of the best-known mutualisms is between plants and animal pollinators. In this mutualism, generalist plants that have ...

Protecting plant diversity via stoichiometric nutrient networks across Europe’ (DiviN-P) (FWOAL1094) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Harry Olde Venterink
Biology
Europe faces changes in biotic patterns, notably species distribution patterns following nutrient enrichment, climate change, and expansion of invasive species. Nutrient enrichment is an important driver of species loss and changes in plant community composition. It directly alters habitat conditions leading to species turnover, but also can make communities more vulnerable to invasive species1 , including species that are changing their ...

The quest for climate-smart bananas: screening the banana diversity from plant to cell level KU Leuven

Rony Swennen
Crop Biotechnics

The rise in global mean temperature, frequency of hot temperature extremes, and geographic and temporal shifts in precipitation, increasingly exert pressure on agricultural systems, thereby altering the distribution of highly productive agricultural areas. Approximately 60 % of the area currently under banana cultivation has been predicted to become unsuitable by 2060. To enhance the resilience of our agricultural systems, ...

Vegetation characterization and evaluation of ecosystem function and plant diversity impacts of Dichrostachys cinerea encroachment in Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia KU Leuven

Olivier Honnay
Forest, Nature and Landscape, Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation

Ethiopia is naturally gifted with diverse forest resources accounted for its physiographic and climatic diversity (Fikadu and Melesse, 2014). For example, it is estimated that Ethiopia harbors over 7,000 vascular plants species, of which nearly 840 are reckoned endemic (Tewolde, 1991 as cited in Fikadu and Melesse, 2014). By contrast, the resources are unsustainably utilized leading to increasing onsite (e.g. soil erosion) ...

The functional significance of the diversity in leaf-out phenology of forest trees for understorey plant communities (DOUBLE-UP) Ghent University

Kris Verheyen
Department of Biology, Department of Forest and water management

Numerous experimental studies have showed that species diversity may influence ecosystem functioning. Yet, little is known about (1) the functional role of plant diversity in natural ecosystems, especially forests, (2) the importance of organisational levels of biodiversity other than species richness and (3) the relations between biotic groups. Here we will study how the variation in leaf-out timing between trees (“phenological diversity”) ...