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Henri J. Dumont

Henri J. Dumont

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
53
Citations
10379
World Ranking
3306
National Ranking
46

Overview

Henri J. Dumont is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has a research focus primarily centered around environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scientific contributions span several subfields, including ecology, molecular biology, genetics, environmental chemistry, and ecological modeling.

The research topics addressed by Dumont concentrate on aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior, species distribution and climate change, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, fish ecology and management studies, and lepidoptera biology and taxonomy.

Frequent collaborators in Dumont's work include Bo-Ping Han, Andy Vierstraete, Shaolin Xu, Thomas Schneider, and Dietmar Ikemeyer.

Publications by Dumont are regularly featured in notable journals, with frequent venues including Aquatic Ecology, Hydrobiologia, Mitochondrial DNA Part B, Diversity, and Odonatologica.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Dumont include:

  • Taxonomic Revision of Eastern Part of Western Palaearctic Cordulegaster Using Molecular Phylogeny and Morphology, with the Description of Two New Species (Odonata: Anisoptera: Cordulegastridae), 2021, Diversity
  • Mitogenomics of Cladocera (Branchiopoda): Marked gene order rearrangements and independent predation roots, 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • The evolutionary history of colour polymorphism in Ischnura damselflies (Odonata: Coenagrionidae), 2020, Odonatologica
  • Molecular Phylogeny of Holarctic Aeshnidae with a Focus on the West Palaearctic and Some Remarks on Its Genera Worldwide (Aeshnidae, Odonata), 2023, Diversity
  • An impact of non-native species invasions on the Caspian Sea biota, 2023, Advances in Marine Biology

Best Publications

  • The dry weight estimate of biomass in a selection of Cladocera, Copepoda and Rotifera from the plankton, periphyton and benthos of continental waters

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  • Biogeography of rotifers

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  • Rotifera of some lakes in the floodplain of the River Niger (Imo State, Nigeria)

    Hendrik Segers;Chukwuemekanim S. Nwadiaro;Henri J. Dumont

  • A molecular phylogeny of the Odonata (Insecta)

    Henri J. Dumont;Andy Vierstraete;Jacques R. Vanfleteren

  • On the diversity of the Cladocera in the tropics

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  • Phylogenetic relationships inferred from ribosomal its sequences and biogeographic patterns in representatives of the genus Calopteryx (Insecta: Odonata) of the West Mediterranean and adjacent West European zone.

    Peter H.H. Weekers;Johan F. De Jonckheere;Henri J. Dumont

  • Phylogenetic relationships, divergence time estimation, and global biogeographic patterns of calopterygoid damselflies (odonata, zygoptera) inferred from ribosomal DNA sequences.

    Henri J. Dumont;Jacques R. Vanfleteren;Johan F. D E Jonckheere;Peter H. H. Weekers

  • A checklist of names in Alona Baird 1843 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Chydoridae) and their current status: an analysis of the taxonomy of a lump genus

    Kay Van Damme;Alexey A. Kotov;Henri J. Dumont

  • Further division of Alona Baird, 1843: separation and position of Coronatella Dybowski & Grochowski and Ovalona gen.n. (Crustacea: Cladocera)

    Kay Van Damme;Henri J. Dumont

  • The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata)

    Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra;Guenter Bechly;Seth M. Bybee;Rory A. Dow

  • Aquatic Invasions in the Black, Caspian, and Mediterranean Seas

    Henri Dumont;Tamara A. Shiganova;Ulrich Niermann

  • Estimating lacustrine zooplankton species richness and complementarity

    Henri J. Dumont;Hendrik Segers

  • Karualona n.gen. (Anomopoda: Chydoridae), with a description of two new species, and a key to all known species

    Henri J. Dumont;Marcelo Silva-Briano;Marcelo Silva-Briano

  • Crustacean species richness in temporary pools: relationships with habitat traits

    Avi Eitam;Avi Eitam;Leon Blaustein;Kay Van Damme;Henri J. Dumont

  • Laboratory studies on the population dynamics of Anuraeopsis fissa (Rotifera) in relation to food density

    Henri J. Dumont;S.S.S. Sarma;A. Jawahar Ali

  • A redescription of Eucyclops serrulatus (Fischer, 1851) (Crustacea: Copepoda: Cyclopoida) and some related taxa, with a phylogeny of the E. serrulatus-group

    Victor Alekseev;Henri J. Dumont;Jeannine Pensaert;Deo Baribwegure

  • The Fayum Depression and Its Lakes

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  • The distribution and ecology of the fresh- and brackish-water medusae of the world

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  • Jellyfish Blooms: Ecological and Societal Importance

    J. E. Purcell;W. M. Graham;H. J. Dumont

  • A RECLASSIFICATION OF THE ANOMOPOD FAMILIES MACROTHRICIDAE AND CHYDORIDAE,WITH THE CREATION OF A NEW SUBORDER, THE RADOPODA (CRUSTACEA : BRANCHIOPODA )

    Henri J. Dumont;Marcelo Silva-Briano

  • Cladocera of the Lençóis Maranhenses (NE - Brazil): faunal composition and a reappraisal of Sars' Method

    K Van Damme;H J Dumont

  • Further expansion of the genus Cercopagis (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Onychopoda) in the Baltic Sea, with notes on the taxa present and their ecology

    Elena Gorokhova;Nikolai Aladin;Henri J. Dumont

  • Phylogeny, evolution and classification of the Branchiopoda (Crustacea)

    Stefan Negrea;Nicolae Botnariuc;Henri J. Dumont

  • Competitive interactions between herbivorous rotifers : Importance of food concentration and initial population density

    S. S. S. Sarma;Nandini Iyer;H. J. Dumont

  • A revision of the Scapholeberinae (Crustacea: Cladocera)

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  • Aquatic invasions in the Black, Caspian, and Mediterranean seas: the ctenophores Mnemiopsis leidyi and Beroe in the Ponto-Caspian and other aquatic invasions

    Henri Dumont;Tamara A. Shiganova;Ulrich Niermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Hendrik Segers
Hendrik Segers Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
S. S. S. Sarma
S. S. S. Sarma National Autonomous University of Mexico
Alexey A. Kotov
Alexey A. Kotov Russian Academy of Sciences
Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
Jacques R. Vanfleteren
Jacques R. Vanfleteren Ghent University
Zhengwen Liu
Zhengwen Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Anton Brancelj
Anton Brancelj University of Ljubljana
Karl Cottenie
Karl Cottenie University of Guelph
Koen Martens
Koen Martens Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Dirk Verschuren
Dirk Verschuren Ghent University

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