Topics in the field of of Integrated Water Management
- Relation between riparian carabidae (ground beetles) and vegetation in restored riverbanks
- Ecosystem service delivery in a newly restored brackish tidal marsh: water quality evaluation in HPP
- Biodiversity monitoring in newly restored tidal nature: HPP, from polder to conservation area
- Soil Hydrology of Experimental Soil Setups
- Detecting Areas with Soil Compaction across Certain Areas in Flanders
- Assessing the potential for peatland restoration of the Laakvallei
- Unravelling factors that control blooms of midges
- Determination of a maximum Chinese mitten crab density that will not harm the aquatic ecosystem
- Monitoring of midges using machine learning
- Modelling the hydrological fluxes of (drained) upstream depressional wetlands (UDWs)
- Modeling of Ditches and Their Management Using Weirs
- Coastal marshes under pressure: Species-specific growth response of tidal marsh plants to hydrodynamics such as waves or currents
- Algae facilitated vegetation establishment in tidal marshes
- Impact of tidal marsh submergence by sea level rise on soil organic carbon stocks
- From mud to marsh: assessing the effect of sediment drainage on seedling survival in an intertidal mudflat
Topics in the field of Physiological and molecular mechanisms of stress and toxicity: acclimatisation and homeostasis
- Physiological effects of single and mixtures trace metals on freshwater invertebrates
- Chemical emissions from offshore wind farms: assessing impacts on marine organisms
- Development of an ImageJ macro tool for differential blood cell counts to assess stress-induced immunosuppression in sharks
- Characterisation of new primers for GLUTs, MCTs, and GRs for blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus)
Topics in the field of Water and Soil Quality Risk Assessment
Topics in the field of Macro- and micronutrients for healthy ecosystems
Topics in the field of Bioavailability and accumulation of micro- and macro-contaminants
- Concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in feathers of aquatic birds at Blokkersdijk and relationships with environmental concentrations
- Effects of the chemical structure of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on the bioaccumulation and toxicity to terrestrial and aquatic plants and invertebrates
- Is consumption of Chinese mitten crabs in Belgium associated with health risks for humans and zoo animals?
- Effect of plant characteristics on the bioaccumulation of PFAS in terrestrial plants – for phytoremediation purposes
- Effect of soil conditioners on bioavailability of metals from soil to plants
- Effect of veterinary anthelmintic compounds on dung beetle diversity in horses
- Metals in mushrooms at different distances from a pollution source
- Bioaccumulation and effects in caged animals exposed in rivers
Topics in cooperation with Meise Botanic Garden
- Refining of the ecological preferences of diatoms based on historic and recent collections
- The diversity of aquatic and moss inhabiting diatom communities in the Westfjords, northern Iceland
- Biogeochemical and ecological characterization of natural and artificial waterbodies in Meise Botanic Garden
- Response of aquatic organisms to metal pollution in Flemish streams : a comparison between diatoms and macro invertebrates