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Hans Jacquemyn

Hans Jacquemyn

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
75
Citations
17325
World Ranking
1076
National Ranking
13

Overview

Hans Jacquemyn is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has conducted extensive research primarily in the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Insect Science, Molecular Biology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research topics focus on multiple aspects of plant and animal studies, notably covering Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Hans Jacquemyn has contributed papers to several scientific journals. Their recent publications include:

  • The Waiting Room Hypothesis revisited by orchids: were orchid mycorrhizal fungi recruited among root endophytes? (2021, Annals of Botany)
  • Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • Symbiont switching and trophic mode shifts in Orchidaceae (2021, New Phytologist)
  • Temporal turnover in mycorrhizal interactions: a proof of concept with orchids (2021, New Phytologist)
  • Accurate detection and quantification of seasonal abundance of American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) using ddPCR eDNA assays (2021, Scientific Reports)

Their frequent coauthors include Bart Lievens, Rein Brys, Felix Wäckers, María I. Pozo, and Sergio Álvarez-Pérez, with collaborative counts ranging from 11 to 36 publications.

Hans Jacquemyn has published repeatedly in several venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in Mycorrhiza and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), followed by Annals of Botany, Frontiers in Plant Science, and New Phytologist.

Best Publications

  • Susceptibility of Common and Rare Plant Species to the Genetic Consequences of Habitat Fragmentation

    Olivier Honnay;Hans Jacquemyn

  • Extinction debt of forest plants persists for more than a century following habitat fragmentation.

    Mark Vellend;Kris Verheyen;Hans Jacquemyn;Annette Kolb

  • Homogenization of forest plant communities and weakening of species–environment relationships via agricultural land use

    Mark Vellend;Kris Verheyen;Kathryn M. Flinn;Hans Jacquemyn

  • Possible effects of habitat fragmentation and climate change on the range of forest plant species

    Olivier Honnay;Kris Verheyen;Jan Butaye;Hans Jacquemyn

  • Forest fragmentation effects on patch occupancy and population viability of herbaceous plant species

    Olivier Honnay;Hans Jacquemyn;Beatrijs Bossuyt;Martin Hermy

  • Meta‐Analysis of Susceptibility of Woody Plants to Loss of Genetic Diversity through Habitat Fragmentation

    Guy Vranckx;Hans Jacquemyn;Bart Muys;Olivier Honnay

  • What constrains the distribution of orchid populations

    Melissa K. McCormick;Hans Jacquemyn

  • Ecological perspectives for the restoration of plant communities in European temperate forests

    Olivier Honnay;Beatrijs Bossuyt;Kris Verheyen;Jan Butaye

  • Can a seed bank maintain the genetic variation in the above ground plant population

    Olivier Honnay;Beatrijs Bossuyt;Hans Jacquemyn;Ayako Shimono

  • Adaptation to fragmentation: evolutionary dynamics driven by human influences.

    Pierre-Olivier Cheptou;Anna L. Hargreaves;Dries Bonte;Hans Jacquemyn

  • Forest plant species richness in small, fragmented mixed deciduous forest patches: the role of area, time and dispersal limitation

    Hans Jacquemyn;Jan Butaye;Martin Hermy

  • Microbiology of sugar-rich environments: diversity, ecology and system constraints

    Bart Lievens;John E. Hallsworth;Maria I. Pozo;Zouhaier Ben Belgacem

  • Short-term effects of different management regimes on the response of calcareous grassland vegetation to increased nitrogen

    Hans Jacquemyn;Rein Brys;Martin Hermy

  • Patch occupancy, population size and reproductive success of a forest herb (Primula elatior) in a fragmented landscape.

    Hans Jacquemyn;Rein Brys;Martin Hermy

  • A spatially explicit analysis of seedling recruitment in the terrestrial orchid Orchis purpurea

    Hans Jacquemyn;Rein Brys;Katrien Vandepitte;Olivier Honnay

  • Soil phosphorus constrains biodiversity across European grasslands

    Tobias Ceulemans;Carly J. Stevens;Luc Duchateau;Hans Jacquemyn

  • Influence of environmental and spatial variables on regional distribution of forest plant species in a fragmented and changing landscape

    Hans Jacquemyn;Jan Butaye;Martin Hermy

  • Analysis of network architecture reveals phylogenetic constraints on mycorrhizal specificity in the genus Orchis (Orchidaceae).

    Hans Jacquemyn;Vincent Merckx;Rein Brys;Daniel Tyteca

  • Reduced reproductive success in small populations of the self‐incompatible Primula vulgaris

    Rein Brys;Hans Jacquemyn;Patrick Endels;Fabienne Van Rossum;Fabienne Van Rossum

  • Elevational gradients of species diversity, breeding system and floral traits of orchid species on Réunion Island

    Hans Jacquemyn;Claire Micheneau;David L. Roberts;Thierry Pailler

  • A meta-analysis of the relation between mating system, growth form and genotypic diversity in clonal plant species

    Olivier Honnay;Hans Jacquemyn

Frequent Co-Authors

Rein Brys
Rein Brys Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Martin Hermy
Martin Hermy KU Leuven
Bart Lievens
Bart Lievens KU Leuven
Isabel Roldán-Ruiz
Isabel Roldán-Ruiz Ghent University
Felix L. Wäckers
Felix L. Wäckers Lancaster University
Marc-André Selosse
Marc-André Selosse University of Gdańsk
Joachim Mergeay
Joachim Mergeay Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Michael J. Hutchings
Michael J. Hutchings University of Sussex
Carlos M. Herrera
Carlos M. Herrera Spanish National Research Council

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