A5037391272- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
- Plant and animal studies
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens
- Metallurgy and Material Science
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Morphological variations and asymmetry
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Comparative and International Law Studies
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Environmental Policies and Emissions
- Energy, Environment, Agriculture Analysis
- Heavy metals in environment
Institute of Natural Sciences
2005-2024
University of Connecticut
2010-2022
Research Institute for Nature and Forest
2003-2017
Flemish Community
2005-2007
Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer
2007
KU Leuven
1996-2001
Abstract – Since the 1980s, European eel Anguilla anguilla stock is in steep decline. Lipid reserves are essential to cover energetic requirements for silver migration and reproduction. Two large independent data sets from Belgium The Netherlands show an average one‐third decrease fat contents of yellow eels over past 15 years. Also Le Cren’s relative condition factor decreased. On basis somatic energy reserves, reproductive potential various latitudes Europe was estimated, assuming levels...
Abstract Belpaire, C., and Goemans, G. 2007. Eels: contaminant cocktails pinpointing environmental contamination. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: –. There is growing concern that insufficient somatic health conditions silver European eels (Anguilla anguilla) emigrating from waters to oceanic spawning areas might be a key causative factor in the decline stock. One could contribute deterioration status high accumulation their body. Contaminants may affect lipid metabolism result lower...
Abstract Phylogenetic asymmetry is common throughout the tree of life and results from contrasting patterns speciation extinction in paired descendant lineages ancestral nodes. On depauperate side a node, we find extant ‘relict’ taxa that sit atop long, unbranched lineages. Here, show tiny, pale green, inconspicuous poorly known cicada genus Derotettix, endemic to degraded salt-plain habitats arid regions central Argentina, relict lineage sister all other modern cicadas. Nuclear...
Abstract Belpaire, C., Goemans, G., Geeraerts, Quataert, P., and Parmentier, K. 2008. Pollution fingerprints in eels as models for the chemical status of rivers. – ICES Journal Marine Science, 65: 1483–1491. The 2006 EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) proposed monitoring a selection priority substances aquatic phase, including lipophilic substances. However, there are strong arguments measuring biota. Yellow eel is good candidate because it widespread, sedentary, accumulates many its muscle...
DAO Diseases of Aquatic Organisms Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsSpecials 56:223-233 (2003) - doi:10.3354/dao056223 Spatio-temporal dynamics parasitic nematode Anguillicola crassus in Flanders, Belgium V. Audenaert1, T. Huyse1, G. Goemans2, C. Belpaire2, F. A. M. Volckaert2,* 1Laboratory Ecology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Ch. 3000 de Bériotstraat 32, 2Institute for Forest and...
The existence of two morphotypes, broadheaded and narrowheaded, in European eels Anguilla anguilla is common knowledge among fishermen eel biologists Europe. To test whether really are dimorphic head shape, a total 277 specimens from locations Belgium (Scheldt–Lippenbroek Lake Weerde), combination with larger data set 725 river systems across Flanders (the northern part Belgium) were examined. Our biometric support the hypothesis that shape variation ‘Belgian’ best described as having...
Concentrations of the sum seven indicator PCBs (Sigma7 iPCBs) measured in non-commercial European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) Flanders are high: 80% all sampled localities, Belgian PCB standard for fish was exceeded. The objective this study to assess intake Sigma7 iPCBs through consumption by recreational fishermen and compare it a background population. median estimated varied between 18.4 237.6 ng kg(-1) bw day(-1), depending on scenario, while population (consumers only) 4.3 day(-1)....
Abstract Contamination of a genetic sample with DNA from one or more nontarget species is continuing concern molecular phylogenetic studies, both Sanger sequencing studies and next-generation studies. We developed an automated pipeline for identifying excluding likely cross-contaminated loci based on the detection bimodal distributions patristic distances across gene trees. When contamination occurs between samples within data set, comparison contaminated its contaminant taxon will yield...
This work examined three different phenotypes of the yellow‐eel stage European eel Anguilla anguilla , broad‐heads, narrow‐heads and eels with an intermediate head shape. The aim was to see whether broad‐headed A. which generally consume harder, larger prey, such as crustaceans fish, exerted greater bite force than narrow‐headed variant, mainly soft, small prey chironomid larvae. It found that in 99 yellow vivo broad‐heads are higher compared intermediates.
An overview is given of the past century’s confusions concerning some key characters within this Neotropical cicada tribe. The limits genera Zammara and Orellana have been redefined a comprehensive checklist included for illustrated to tribe Zammarini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) provided; first both males females Odopoea perspicua Distant, 1905 transferred from African Platypleurini become Canualna (Distant, 1905), comb. n.
The morphological response of Chironomus gr. thummi larvae after a spill xylene (10000 1) and toluene (7500 in brook was investigated. At the site spill, proportion with mentum antennal deformities increased following months. Downstream (500 m), no such clear could be discerned. Mandible occurred as well, but fluctuations not related to pulse pollution. Fugacity concentration models predict higher affinity sediments biota. Therefore, short term 72 h exposure test (0, 10, 100, 1000 μl/l)...