Details

Department: 
Aquatic Ecology
Research Group: 
Declerck Group
Contact: 
Steven Declerck
Running period: 
2016 to 2019

This project studies the role of host-parasite coevolution as an important evolutionary process underlying eco-evolutionary dynamics, i.e. ‘eco-coevolutionary dynamics’.

We aim to study how this eco-coevolutionary dynamics affect fundamental ecosystem functions, more in particular primary productivity and nutrient recycling in freshwater ecosystems using the invertebrate waterflea Daphnia and its parasites.

Theme: 

Eco-evolutionary dynamics

Theme

Funding

FWO-Vlaanderen

Research team

Lore Bulteel
Koenraad Muylaert
Giovanni Samaey
Silke Van den Wyngaert
Ellen Decaestecker