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TEREC

@TEREC_ugent

Terrestrial Ecology Unit

 Ghent
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Joined December 2013
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This new publication concludes a first chapter in our study of the causes and consequences of granivory in ants and myrmecophilous silverfish. We combine stable isotope profiling, feeding assays, phylogeny, and microbiome analyses of a broad insect panel doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-0…
Co-habiting ants and silverfish display a converging feeding ecology

Co-habiting ants and silverfish display a converging feeding ecology

BMC Biology - Various animal taxa have specialized to living with social hosts. Depending on their level of specialization, these symbiotic animals are characterized by distinct behavioural,...

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Proud to present: 🐟 Chapter 3 of my #PhD --> now available in Science of the Total Environment. Read about how #eDNA metabarcoding can be used to monitor fish communities in the Scheldt estuary! ⚓️ sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @INBOVlaanderen @TEREC_ugent @FWOVlaanderen
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Image from Charlotte Van Driessche (@Vdriecha)
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Dr Nicky Wybouw @NWybouw will be joining #PEC2024 as our plenary speaker! His lab studies questions in the broader fields of speciation, herbivory, and symbiosis. Within these fields, dr Wybouw studies the molecular-genetic basis of key complex traits such as hybrid dysfunction
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We are pleased to show our freshly published review article in the polyploidy special issue of @Oikos_Journal . We review polyploid establishment and show how coexistence theory can help to undertstand it. doi.org/10.1111/oik.09929
Understanding polyploid establishment: temporary persistence or stable coexistence?

Understanding polyploid establishment: temporary persistence or stable coexistence?

Polyploidy, resulting from whole-genome duplication (WGD), is ubiquitous in nature and reportedly associated with extreme environments and biological invasions. However, WGD usually comes with great...

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Just a few days (until 15 Dec) left to apply for this position!
Matthew Shawkey (@mdshawkey) profile pictureMatthew Shawkey@mdshawkey22 Nov 2023
Application for a three-year post-doc position studying how moths camouflage themselves against bat sonar is now open! Deadline 15 December. In collaboration @WHalfwerk at @VUamsterdam and Liliana D'Alba @museumnaturalis. Inquiries welcome. Please RT jobs.ugent.be/job/Ghent-Post…
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Nicky Wybouw @NWybouw on symbiosis @ece2023
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Replying to @Marinasentis
@Marinasentis shows that biophysical models can accurately predict the energy expenditure of small passerine birds, especially if avian thermoregulatory behavior such as feather fluffing is accounted for. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… first PhD chapter! @CesarePacioni @TEREC_ugent
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Amazing talk by @CamilleTroisi on the stopping behaviour of two gull species at Behaviour 2023!! @cobe_lab
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Out now @HeredityJournal - our study of the underlying mechanisms and relevance of Wolbachia-induced sex allocation distortion (Sd) in haplodiploids! Sd is an often neglected symbiont-mediated reproductive phenotype in haplodiploids and is expressed when females are infected.
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Proud to be part of this body of work that was spearheaded by Silke and Yu-Hsien. We identified and characterized an enzyme of an insect herbivore that modulates the green leaf volatiles of its host plant but also plays a key role in its development. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

A salivary GMC oxidoreductase of Manduca sexta re-arranges the green leaf volatile profile of its...

Nature Communications - Green leaf volatiles are emitted from plants in response to stress. Here the authors identify an isomerase in Manduca sexta that both modulate plant green leaf volatiles and...

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Excellent new work by Bram and colleagues!
Bram Catfolis (@BCatfolis) profile pictureBram Catfolis@BCatfolis28 Jun 2023
The first paper of my PhD is now published! We examined how forest structural complexity affects birds nutritional status, inferred from their feather growth rate, and showed a postitive impact. Free access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.20…
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Another successful field biology course for 3d y bachelors completed! Students participated in experimental design, performed their field work independently, and made a video report of their results and conclusions. We also reached our target of identifying 500 species in 5 days!
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We were again blessed with seeing sea sparkle (zeevonk) in our North Sea.
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Zoeken jullie mee naar SPINTMIJTEN in bos, tuin, huis, moestuin of waar dan ook? Neem er een foto van en vul de enquête in op mijntuinlab.be/projects/18/ (het project loopt tot eind september) - graag delen en heel erg bedankt! @BisschopKaren @NWybouw @BonteDries @ellendecaesteck
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You can swim, but you can't hide! 🔍🧬🐟 Tonight, I will tell you all about how #eDNA can be used to detect riverine fish @pintofscienceBE See you there! 🍻 – at Kruishoutem, België
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Image from Charlotte Van Driessche (@Vdriecha)
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Well done Femke!
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Thank you @ASNAmNat for this honour, I am really greatful for this recognition! And also thanks to my coauthors @AAlzateVallejo @BonteDries @rampaletienne
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Great EVENET initiative!
Nick Wybouw (@NWybouw) profile pictureNick Wybouw@NWybouw3 Apr 2023
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@diecasfranco and Michal Kolasa (not on twitter) are sharing their brilliance during an @FWOVlaanderen EVENET workshop on host-symbiont interactions!
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Neutral processes underlying the macro eco-evolutionary dynamics of mixed-ploidy systems | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
Neutral processes underlying the macro eco-evolutionary dynamics of mixed-ploidy systems

Neutral processes underlying the macro eco-evolutionary dynamics of mixed-ploidy systems

Abstract. Polyploidy, i.e. the occurrence of multiple sets of chromosomes, is regarded as an important phenomenon in plant ecology and evolution, with all

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