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Henk W. van der Veer is affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Netherlands. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Molecular Biology.

Their work addresses multiple topics related to marine environments and biodiversity. Key topics include:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies

Van der Veer has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Allert I. Bijleveld, Judith van Bleijswijk, Johannes IJ. Witte, Sander Holthuijsen, and Lise Klunder. Each of these collaborators has contributed to multiple publications alongside van der Veer.

Their recent papers reflect a focus on marine ecosystems, environmental DNA, and benthic fauna. Notable publications include:

  • Connecting foraging and roosting areas reveals how food stocks explain shorebird numbers, 2021, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Analysis of a coastal North Sea fish community: Comparison of aquatic environmental DNA concentrations to fish catches, 2020, Environmental DNA
  • A Molecular Approach to Explore the Background Benthic Fauna Around a Hydrothermal Vent and Their Larvae: Implications for Future Mining of Deep-Sea SMS Deposits, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Here are the polyps: in situ observations of jellyfish polyps and podocysts on bivalve shells, 2020, PeerJ
  • Quantification of marine benthic communities with metabarcoding, 2021, Molecular Ecology Resources

The scientist frequently publishes in specific venues that focus on marine and environmental sciences. Their most common publication venues include:

  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Biology
  • Environmental DNA
  • PeerJ

Best Publications

  • Recruitment in flatfish, with special emphasis on North Atlantic species: progress made by the Flatfish Symposia

    Henk W. van der Veer;Rüdiger Berghahn;John M. Miller;Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp

  • The estimation of DEB parameters for various Northeast Atlantic bivalve species

    Henk W. van der Veer;Joana F.M.F. Cardoso;Jaap van der Meer

  • Selective Tidal Transport of North Sea Plaice Larvae Pleuronectes platessa in Coastal Nursery Areas

    A. D. Rijnsdorp;M. Van Stralen;H. W. Van Der Veer

  • Low effective population size and evidence for inbreeding in an overexploited flatfish, plaice (Pleuronectes platessa L.)

    Galice Hoarau;E Eva Boon;Dorris N Jongma;Steven Ferber

  • The “covariation method” for estimating the parameters of the standard Dynamic Energy Budget model I: Philosophy and approach

    Konstadia Lika;Michael R. Kearney;Vânia Freitas;Henk W. van der Veer

  • Distinctly variable mudscapes: Distribution gradients of intertidal macrofauna across the Dutch Wadden Sea

    Tanya J. Compton;Sander Holthuijsen;Anita Koolhaas;Anne Dekinga

  • Functional responses and scaling in predator-prey interactions of marine fishes: contemporary issues and emerging concepts.

    Mary E. Hunsicker;Lorenzo Ciannelli;Kevin Mclean Bailey;Jeffrey A. Buckel

  • Ecophysiology of marine fish recruitment: A conceptual framework for understanding interannual variability

    William H. Neill;John M. Miller;Henk W. Van Der Veer;Kirk O. Winemiller

  • Recruitment mechanisms in North Sea Plaice Pleuronectes platessa

    HW van der Veer;L. Pihl;Mjn Bergman

  • Diet of cormorants and the impact of cormorant predation on juvenile flatfish in the Dutch Wadden Sea

    Mardik F. Leopold;Cindy J.G. van Damme;Henk W. van der Veer

  • Importance of predation by crustaceans upon bivalve spat in the intertidal zone of the Dutch Wadden Sea as revealed by immunological assays of gut contents

    Henk W van der Veer;Robert J Feller;Anke Weber;Johannes Ij. Witte

  • Impact of juvenile growth on recruitment in flatfish

    Henk W. Van Der Veer;Rüdiger Berghahn;Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp

  • Potential impact of temperature change on epibenthic predator–bivalve prey interactions in temperate estuaries

    Vânia Freitas;Joana Campos;Mark Fonds;Henk W. Van der Veer

  • Designing a benthic monitoring programme with multiple conflicting objectives

    Allert I. Bijleveld;Jan A. van Gils;Jaap van der Meer;Anne Dekinga

  • Temperature tolerance and energetics: a dynamic energy budget-based comparison of North Atlantic marine species

    Vânia Freitas;Joana F. M. F. Cardoso;Konstadia Lika;Myron A. Peck

  • Major changes in the ecology of the Wadden Sea : Human impacts, ecosystem engineering and sediment dynamics

    Britas Klemens Eriksson;Tjisse van der Heide;Johan van de Koppel;Theunis Piersma

  • Effects of climate change on growth of 0-group sole and plaice

    L.R. Teal;J.J. de Leeuw;H.W. van der Veer;A.D. Rijnsdorp

  • Spatially extended habitat modification by intertidal reef-building bivalves has implications for consumer-resource interactions

    Els M. van der Zee;Tjisse van der Heide;Serena Donadi;Johan S. Eklöf

  • Impact of interannual variability in hydrodynamic circulation on egg and larval transport of plaice Pleuronectes platessa L. in the southern North Sea

    Henk W. Van der Veer;Piet Ruardij;Arianne J. Van den Berg;Herman Ridderinkhof

  • The nursery function of the intertidal areas in the western Wadden Sea for 0-group sole Solea solea (L.)

    Henk W van der Veer;Rob Dapper;Johannes Ij Witte

  • Importance of exposure and habitat structure for the population density of 0-group plaice, Pleuronectes platessa L., in coastal nursery areas

    Leif Pihl;Henk W. Van der Veer

  • Phylogeography of the common shrimp, Crangon crangon (L.) across its distribution range.

    Pieternella C. Luttikhuizen;Joana Campos;Judith van Bleijswijk;Katja T.C.A. Peijnenburg

  • Population structure of plaice (Pleuronectes platessa L.) in northern Europe: a comparison of resolving power between microsatellites and mitochondrial DNA data

    G.G. Hoarau;A.M.T. Piquet;H.W van der Veer;A.D Rijnsdorp

Frequent Co-Authors

Theunis Piersma
Theunis Piersma University of Groningen
Sebastiaan A.L.M. Kooijman
Sebastiaan A.L.M. Kooijman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tjisse van der Heide
Tjisse van der Heide Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Han Olff
Han Olff University of Groningen
Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp
Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp Wageningen University & Research
Jan A. van Gils
Jan A. van Gils Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Johan van de Koppel
Johan van de Koppel Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Britas Klemens Eriksson
Britas Klemens Eriksson University of Groningen
Andrew H. Altieri
Andrew H. Altieri University of Florida
Anne Dekinga
Anne Dekinga Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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