Research
Belgian researchers - Biosphere
De Wever Aaike
Dr.
After his PhD on the microbial food web in the tropical Lake Tanganyika (in collaboration with the CLIMLAKE-project), Aaike De Wever started working on microbial diversity and geography in the Antarctica using both morphological and molecular methods in the framework of the AMBIO-project.
Activities
- Research programme: CLIMLAKE – AMBIO
- Research group: Universiteit Gent (UG) - Protistology and Aquatic Ecology
- Research projects:
- Antarctic microbial biodiversity: the importance of geographical and ecological factors (AMBIO)
- Related activities:
- member of BYSC
List of publications
Peer reviewed papers
Cocquyt, C. & De Wever, A. (2002) Epiphytic diatom communities on herbarium material from lake naivasha and Lake Sonachi, eastern rift valley, Kenya. Belgian Journal of Botany, 135, 38-49.
De Wever, A., Muylaert, K., Van Der Gucht, K., Pirlot, S., Cocquyt, C., Descy, J. P., Plisnier, P. D. & Vyverman, W. (2005) Bacterial community composition in Lake Tanganyika: Vertical and horizontal heterogeneity. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71, 5029-5037.
De Wever, A., Muylaert, K., Langlet, D., Alleman, L., Descy, J. P., André, L., Cocquyt, C. & Vyverman, W. (subm.) Differential response of phytoplankton to nitrogen, phosporus and iron additions in Lake Tanganyika. Freshwater Biology.
De Wever, A., Muylaert, K., Cocquyt, C., Van Wichelen, J., Plisnier, P. D. & Vyverman, W. (subm.) Seasonal and spatial variability in the abundance of auto- and heterotrophic plankton in Lake Tanganyika. Archiv Fur Hydrobiologie.
De Wever, A., Van der Gucht, K., Muylaert, K., Cousin, S. & Vyverman W. (subm.) Bacterial community composition in Lake Tanganyika; high contribution of non-freshwater cluster. Aquatic Microbial Ecology.
PhD
De Wever, Aaike (2006) Spatio-temporal dynamics in the microbial food web in Lake Tanganyika (Spatio-temporele dynamiek van het microbiële voedselweb in het Tanganyikameer) PhD-thesis, Ghent University, 155 p.
Posters
Long-term survival of microalgae in freshwater lacustrine sediments, Dodonaea-symposium, Habitat Fragmentation: Effects and Remedies, Ghent, Belgium - November 2002
Vertical and horizontal heterogeneity
in prokaryotic community composition in Lake
Tanganyika, A. De Wever, K. Muylaert, K. Van der Gucht, S. Pirlot,
C. Cocquyt, P.-D. Plisnier, W. Vyverman, Necov-meeting, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands — May 2004
Vertical and horizontal heterogeneity
in prokaryotic community composition in Lake
Tanganyika, A. De Wever, K. Muylaert, K. Van der Gucht, S. Pirlot,
C. Cocquyt, P.-D. Plisnier, W. Vyverman, EPBRS-meeting; Scientific
tools for biodiversity conservation: monitoring, modelling and experiments — April
2005
Oral presentations
Presentatie, Overleving van ruststadia van protisten in het sediment van ondiepe meren, NVKD (Nederlands Vlaamse Kring voor Diatomisten), NVKD-meeting, Edam, The Netherlands — April 2002
Vertical and horizontal heterogeneity in prokaryotic community composition in Lake Tanganyika, A. De Wever, K. Muylaert, K. Van der Gucht, S. Pirlot, C. Cocquyt, P.-D. Plisnier, W. Vyverman, ASLO summer meeting, Savannah, U.S.A.— June 2004
N, P, and Fe limitation of phytoplankton in Lake Tanganyika, A. De Wever, K. Muylaert, J.-P. Descy, W. Vyverman, ASLO summer meeting, Santiago de Compostella, Spain.— June 2005
Complementary resources
Contact
De Wever Aaike
Ghent University
Department of Biology (WE11)
Categorie wetenschappelijk personeel
K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35 -
9000 Gent
Aaike.DeWever@UGent.be
Phone: +32 9 264 85 05 -
Fax +32 9 264 53 34