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Personal profile
Research expertise
My research deals primarily with the functioning of estuarine ecosystems, with focus on the ecology of macrobenthic and hyperbenthic organisms and their role in the estuarine foodweb. All research is to some extent applied in nature and aims to better understand river management effects on biota and ecosystems as a whole (both monitoring and experimental research), and the benefits of the estuarine community to humans (ecosystem services). Research methods are accomodated to the research questions and include stable isotope research, standardized monitoring schemes, experimental field research with exclosures, laboratory experiments in climate rooms, etc... Additional research interests are entomology, mainly Diptera (focus on Syrphidae) and water bird ecology.
Teaching expertise
I teach Conservation biology at the KU Leuven.
External positions
guest teaching professor, KU Leuven
21-Sep-2008 → …Thematic List 2020
- Water
- Protected nature
Policy
- aquatic management
- management monitoring
- biodiversity policy
- Water Framework Directive
- Natura 2000
Taxonomic list
- bristle worms (Polychaeta)
- insects (Insecta)
- earthworms (Oligochaeta)
- hoverflies (Syrphidae)
disciplinecodelist
- Community ecology
Technological
- experimental design
- identification
- fieldwork (observations and sampling)
EWI Biomedical sciences
- B003-ecology
Geographic list
- Belgium
Thematic list
- Management
- Species and biotopes
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Long term ECODYN modelling of the Common Meuse
Provoost, S., Steenackers, M., Van de Meutter, F., Vanoverbeke, J., Van Ryckegem, G., Van Uytvanck, J. & Van Braeckel, A.
1/06/20 → 30/11/21
Project: Evinbo
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Use of (e)DNA and barcoding techniques for screening of (potentially) invasive alien species.
Adriaens, T., Brys, R., Devisscher, S., Mergeay, J., Soors, J., Speybroeck, J., Van de Meutter, F., Verreycken, H., Halfmaerten, D., D'hondt, B. & van Doorn, L.
1/04/20 → 31/12/24
Project: Legally bound
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BIODRIVES. Biodiversity and energy fluxes in estuaries as drivers of ecosystem services in a changing Europe
Elsen, R., Van Ryckegem, G., Mertens, W., Vanoverbeke, J., Van de Meutter, F., Vandevoorde, B., Van den Bergh, E., Van Braeckel, A. & Jocqué, M.
1/01/20 → 25/12/24
Project: own initiative (position paper)
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Policy supporting model-instruments Scheldt Estuary (De Vlaamse Waterweg nv)
Vandevoorde, B., Speybroeck, J., Van den Bergh, E., Spanoghe, G., Van Ryckegem, G., Gyselings, R., Van de Meutter, F., Vanoverbeke, J., Mertens, W. & Van Braeckel, A.
1/01/19 → 31/12/23
Project: Outline agreement
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Management of tidal marshes
Elsen, R., Van Ryckegem, G., Van de Meutter, F., Mertens, W., Vandevoorde, B., Van den Bergh, E. & Van Braeckel, A.
1/01/19 → 31/12/23
Project: Outline agreement
Research output
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Knijtenoverlast in Gentbrugge: ecologische kennisopbouw en doeltreffendheid van maatregelen
Van Ryckegem, G., Van de Meutter, F., Vandevoorde, B., Vanoverbeke, J., Jocque, M., Mertens, W. & Van den Bergh, E., 2021, Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek. 112 p. (Rapporten van het Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek; no. 25)Research output: Book/Report › Reports of Research Institute for Nature and Forest
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Trofische Relaties tussen oligochaeten en epibenthische predatoren op slikken in de zeeschelde: Tweedelijnsanalyse
Van de Meutter, F., Bezdenjesnji, O., Buerms, D., De Beukelaer, J., De Regge, N., Terrie, T., Soors, J., Vanoverbeke, J., Van Braeckel, A., Vandevoorde, B., Van den Bergh, E. & Van Ryckegem, G., 2021, 36 p. (Rapporten van het Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek; no. 23)Research output: Book/Report › Reports of Research Institute for Nature and Forest
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First records of Brachyopa grunewaldenis Kassebeer, 2004 in Belgium (Diptera: Syrphidae)
Van de Meutter, F. & Hendrix, J., 2020, In : Bulletin van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Entomologie = Bulletin de la Société royale belge d'entomologie. 155, 2-3, p. 84-87 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › A2: Article in a journal with peer review, not included in A1
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Hyperbenthos in de Zeeschelde: toestand, verspreiding, seizoenale variatie en belangrijke sturende factoren van een nieuwe belangrijke schakel in het voedselweb
Van de Meutter, F., Van Ryckegem, G., Vanoverbeke, J., Van Braeckel, A., Van den Bergh, E. & Speybroeck, J., 21-Feb-2020, Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek. 5 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other published by INBO
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Hyperbenthos in the upper reaches of the Scheldt estuary (Belgium): Spatiotemporal patterns and ecological drivers of a recovered community
De Neve, L., Ryckegem, G. V., Vanoverbeke, J., Meutter, F. V. D., Braeckel, A. V., Bergh, E. V. D. & Speybroeck, J., 30-Oct-2020, In : Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 245, 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › A1: Web of Science-article
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Invasive species - Invasive plants near waterways in West and East Flanders, Belgium
Vanderhaeghe, F. (Creator), Van Kerckvoorde, A. (Creator), Van de Meutter, F. (Creator), Raman, M. (Creator), 4-Apr-2019
DOI: 10.15468/lgu26x, https://www.gbif.org/dataset/d4bf0455-39d9-47a1-b0b7-becfc82e7f13
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