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Luc De Meester

- Verified email at kuleuven.be - Cited by 35661

Ludolf Meester

- Verified email at tudelft.nl - Cited by 1656

Genetic adaptation as a biological buffer against climate change: potential and limitations

LD MEESTER, R Stoks, KI Brans - Integrative zoology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change profoundly impacts ecosystems and their biota, resulting in range shifts, novel
interactions, food web alterations, changed intensities of host—parasite interactions, and …

Relationship between bacterial community composition and bottom-up versus top-down variables in four eutrophic shallow lakes

…, N Vloemans, LD Meester… - Applied and …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial community composition was monitored in four shallow eutrophic lakes during one
year using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of PCR-amplified prokaryotic …

Hatching of cladoceran resting eggs: temperature and photoperiod

…, E Jeppesen, LD Meester - Freshwater …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We identified temperature and photoperiod conditions under which the hatching of 45
cladoceran species could be elicited. Identification of appropriate hatching cues is of primary …

The complexity of urban eco-evolutionary dynamics

…, SD Roches, LD Meester, KI Brans, L Govaert… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Urbanization is changing Earth's ecosystems by altering the interactions and feedbacks
between the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes that maintain life. Humans in …

Alternative antipredator defences and genetic polymorphism in a pelagic predator–prey system

LD Meester, LJ Weider, R Tollrian - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
l). Shard fragments found with the charcoal-bearing lens of the P-1 l site indicate that by AD
719 irrigated fields were probably being used occasionally as sites of cooking and perhaps …

Plankton biodiversity along a gradient of productivity and its mediation by macrophytes

…, M Vanderstukken, A Pals, K Muylaert, LD Meester - Ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We studied the effect of aquatic vegetation on the process of species sorting and community
assembly of three functional groups of plankton organisms (phytoplankton, seston‐feeding …

Invasion of an asexual American water flea clone throughout Africa and rapid displacement of a native sibling species

…, D Verschuren, LD Meester - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The huge ecological and economic impact of biological invasions creates an urgent need for
knowledge of traits that make invading species successful and factors helping indigenous …

Stochastic delay propagation in railway networks and phase-type distributions

LE Meester, S Muns - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2007 - Elsevier
It is difficult to analyse stochastic models for the propagation of delays in railway networks. It
seems that the choice is between very global mathematical (queueing) models at one …

Rapid local adaptation mediates zooplankton community assembly in experimental mesocosms

JH Pantel, C Duvivier, LD Meester - Ecology letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… The mesocosms were 200 L containers filled with 170 L of tap water 1 week prior to
inoculating D. magna. The artificial macrophyte treatment was implemented immediately and …

Metacommunity structure of pond macroinvertebrates: effects of dispersal mode and generation time

FV Meutter, LD Meester, R Stoks - Ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A recent challenge in community ecology is to understand under what conditions local and
regional processes may be more important in shaping community structure. We investigated …