Department of Aquatic Ecology
The department of Aquatic Ecology studies life in inland waters. A complicated network that changes with climate, nutrients, toxic substances and invasive species.
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| Van Donk Group | Ellen van Donk focuses on how ecological mechanisms and abiotic factors govern the dynamics and structure of food webs in aquatic ecosystems. Van Donk... |
| Bakker Group | The Bakker Group focuses on the role of herbivores in structuring the composition, diversity and productivity of plant communities. Whereas this is well known... |
| Declerck Group | Research in the Declerck Group mainly encompasses the study of (1) how biodiversity patterns in natural aquatic systems are shaped by local and regional (meta)... |
| Mooij Group | The main theme in the Mooij Group is the modeling of aquatic ecosystems as a whole and processes therein. The central question is how the combination of... |
| Van de Waal Group | The Van de Waal Group studies the impact of global change on the eco-physiology and population dynamics of phytoplankton, with special emphasis on toxic... |
| Gsell Junior Group | The Gsell junior group focuses on the role of fungal parasites of phytoplankton on the structure and composition of pelagic plankton communities. |
| Van Leeuwen Junior Group | The Van Leeuwen Junior Group studies the movement of plants and animals in freshwater ecosystems. We aim to understand how, why and when species move – and how... |
| AKWA | Stimulated by the growing interest for research valorization in the Netherlands, AKWA wants to put her valuable scientific knowledge into practice. Therefore,... |
| METS | METS seeks to explore the potential of microalgae biodiversity for ecological and sustainable water and wastewater treatment therefore providing full recovery... |
