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Dries Huygens

Dries Huygens

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
31
Citations
4019
World Ranking
9656
National Ranking
126

Overview

Dries Huygens is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has a research focus spanning environmental science and business, management and accounting. Their work primarily addresses themes within sustainable supply chain management, sustainable industrial ecology, and recycling and waste management techniques.

The scientist's published work covers multiple subfields including industrial and manufacturing engineering, strategy and management, food science, environmental engineering, and nature and landscape conservation. Their research topics include municipal solid waste management, food waste reduction and sustainability, environmental impact and sustainability, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Dries Huygens include:

  • Davide Tonini
  • Martyna Solis
  • Loredana Napolano
  • Charlotte Scheutz
  • Jacopo Foschi

Publications by Dries Huygens appear mainly in prominent venues such as Resources Conservation and Recycling, Waste Management, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Sustainable Production and Consumption, and the SSRN Electronic Journal. Key recent papers featuring their contributions include:

  • Technical proposals for the safe use of processed manure above the threshold established for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones by the Nitrates Directive (91/676/EEC), 2020, Joint Research Centre (European Commission)

Other recent significant papers include works on topics related to sustainability and waste management, authored with frequent collaborators:

  • Quantitative sustainability assessment of household food waste management in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, 2020, Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally, 2023, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Management of textile waste in Europe: An environmental and a socio-economic assessment of current and future scenarios, 2024, Resources Conservation and Recycling
  • Contribution of waste management to a sustainable textile sector, 2024, Waste Management

This body of work reflects a focus on environmental sustainability and industrial ecology, integrating considerations from technical, economic, and ecological perspectives. Collaborative efforts with multiple researchers underscore an interdisciplinary approach to issues in environmental impact, resource conservation, and sustainable production systems.

Best Publications

  • Maize biochars accelerate short-term soil nitrogen dynamics in a loamy sand soil

    Victoria Nelissen;Tobias Rütting;Dries Huygens;Dries Huygens;Jeroen Staelens

  • Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

  • Mechanisms for retention of bioavailable nitrogen in volcanic rainforest soils

    Dries Huygens;Dries Huygens;Pascal Boeckx;Pamela Templer;Leandro Paulino

  • The soil N cycle: new insights and key challenges

    J van Groenigen;Dries Huygens;Dries Huygens;Dries Huygens;Pascal Boeckx;Th W Kuyper

  • Soil nitrogen conservation mechanisms in a pristine south Chilean Nothofagus forest ecosystem

    D. Huygens;T. Rütting;P. Boeckx;O. Van Cleemput

  • Environmental and health co-benefits for advanced phosphorus recovery

    Davide Tonini;Hans G. M. Saveyn;Dries Huygens

  • Aggregate and soil organic carbon dynamics in South Chilean Andisols

    D. Huygens;P. Boeckx;O. Van Cleemput;C. Oyarzún

  • Conventional tree height–diameter relationships significantly overestimate aboveground carbon stocks in the Central Congo Basin

    Elizabeth Kearsley;Elizabeth Kearsley;Thales de Haulleville;Thales de Haulleville;Koen Hufkens;Alidé Kidimbu

  • Assessing the 'two water worlds' hypothesis and water sources for native and exotic evergreen species in south-central Chile

    P. Hervé‐Fernández;C. Oyarzún;C. Brumbt;D. Huygens;D. Huygens;D. Huygens

  • Functional role of DNRA and nitrite reduction in a pristine south Chilean Nothofagus forest

    T. Rütting;T. Rütting;D. Huygens;D. Huygens;C. Müller;C. Müller;O. Van Cleemput

  • Temporal evolution of biochar's impact on soil nitrogen processes – a 15N tracing study

    Victoria Nelissen;Tobias Rütting;Dries Huygens;Dries Huygens;Dries Huygens;Greet Ruysschaert

  • Agronomic efficiency of selected phosphorus fertilisers derived from secondary raw materials for European agriculture. A meta-analysis

    Dries Huygens;Hans G. M. Saveyn

  • Kinetics of amino sugar formation from organic residues of different quality

    Zhen Bai;Zhen Bai;Samuel Bodé;Dries Huygens;Dries Huygens;Xudong Zhang

  • In situ gross nitrogen transformations differ between temperate deciduous and coniferous forest soils

    Jeroen Staelens;Tobias Rütting;Dries Huygens;Dries Huygens;An De Schrijver

  • Increased fungal dominance in N2O emission hotspots along a natural pH gradient in organic forest soil

    Tobias Rütting;Dries Huygens;Dries Huygens;Pascal Boeckx;Jeroen Staelens

  • Litterfall and leaf litter decomposition in a central African tropical mountain forest and Eucalyptus plantation

    Landry Cizungu;Jeroen Staelens;Dries Huygens;Dries Huygens;Dries Huygens;Jean Walangululu

  • Quantitative sustainability assessment of household food waste management in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.

    Davide Tonini;Alexander Wandl;Kozmo Meister;Pablo Muñoz Unceta

  • Methodological perspectives on the application of compound-specific stable isotope fingerprinting for sediment source apportionment

    Hari Ram Upadhayay;Hari Ram Upadhayay;Samuel Bodé;Marco Griepentrog;Dries Huygens

  • Advances in 15N-tracing experiments: new labelling and data analysis approaches

    Tobias Rütting;Dries Huygens;Dries Huygens;Jeroen Staelens;Christoph Müller;Christoph Müller

  • Reconciling biodiversity and carbon stock conservation in an Afrotropical forest landscape

    Frederik Van de Perre;Michael R. Willig;Steven J. Presley;Frank Bapeamoni Andemwana

  • Ectomycorrhizal fungi enhance nitrogen and phosphorus nutrition of Nothofagus dombeyi under drought conditions by regulating assimilative enzyme activities

    Maricel Alvarez;Dries Huygens;Erick Olivares;Isabel Saavedra

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Boeckx
Pascal Boeckx Ghent University
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Jeroen Staelens
Jeroen Staelens Flanders Environment Agency
Hans Verbeeck
Hans Verbeeck Ghent University
Hans Beeckman
Hans Beeckman Royal Museum for Central Africa
Koen Hufkens
Koen Hufkens Ghent University
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Kathy Steppe
Kathy Steppe Ghent University
Oswald Van Cleemput
Oswald Van Cleemput Ghent University
Niko E. C. Verhoest
Niko E. C. Verhoest Ghent University

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