Details

Department: 
Aquatic Ecology
Research Group: 
Declerck Group
Contact: 
Steven Declerck
Running period: 
2012 to 2017

Organisms haven been shown to show rapid microevolutionary responses to environmental change and habitat fragmentation related to urbanization. Through a spatially designed field study, evolutionary responses from a wide variety of organism groups, terrestrial as well as aquatic, are studied in response to pressures associated to urbanization.

Theme: 

Eco-evolutionary dynamics

Theme

Funding

BELSPO

Research team

Luc de Meester
Dries Bonte
Frederik Hendricks
Wim Vyverman
Koen Martens