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Joachim Mergeay is affiliated with the Research Institute for Nature and Forest in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, their subfields of study include Genetics, Ecology, Plant Science, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects related to biodiversity and genetics, such as Genetic diversity and population structure, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Plant and animal studies, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, and Genetically Modified Organisms Research.

Frequent co-authors of Joachim Mergeay include:

  • Sean Hoban
  • Ivan Paz-Vinas
  • Gernot Segelbacher
  • Linda Laikre
  • Cristiano Vernesi

Their publications often appear in the following venues:

  • Conservation Genetics
  • Evolutionary Applications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Conservation
  • Ecology Letters

Notable recent papers by Joachim Mergeay include:

  • Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition, 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Global Commitments to Conserving and Monitoring Genetic Diversity Are Now Necessary and Feasible, 2021, BioScience
  • Genetic diversity is considered important but interpreted narrowly in country reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Current actions and indicators are insufficient, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • Opportunities and challenges of macrogenetic studies, 2021, Nature Reviews Genetics

Best Publications

  • Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved

    Sean Hoban;Michael Bruford;Josephine D'Urban Jackson;Margarida Lopes-Fernandes

  • Drivers of population genetic differentiation in the wild: isolation by dispersal limitation, isolation by adaptation and isolation by colonization

    Luisa Orsini;Joost Vanoverbeke;Ine Swillen;Joachim Mergeay;Joachim Mergeay

  • Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition

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  • Global Commitments to Conserving and Monitoring Genetic Diversity Are Now Necessary and Feasible.

    Sean Hoban;Michael W Bruford;W Chris Funk;Peter Galbusera

  • Invasion of an asexual American water flea clone throughout Africa and rapid displacement of a native sibling species

    Joachim Mergeay;Dirk Verschuren;Luc De Meester

  • Rapid genetic adaptation precedes the spread of an exotic plant species

    Katrien Vandepitte;Tim de Meyer;Kenny Helsen;Kasper van Acker

  • Lack of phylogeographic structure in the freshwater cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa suggests global dispersal

    Ineke van Gremberghe;Frederik Leliaert;Joachim Mergeay;Joachim Mergeay;Pieter Vanormelingen

  • Genetic diversity is considered important but interpreted narrowly in country reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Current actions and indicators are insufficient

    Sean Hoban;Sean Hoban;Catriona D. Campbell;Jessica M. da Silva;Robert Ekblom;Robert Ekblom

  • Landscape genomics and a common garden trial reveal adaptive differentiation to temperature across Europe in the tree species Alnus glutinosa.

    Hanne De Kort;Katrien Vandepitte;Hans Henrik Bruun;Déborah Closset-Kopp

  • Opportunities and challenges of macrogenetic studies

    Deborah M Leigh;Charles B van Rees;Katie L Millette;Martin F Breed;Martin F Breed

  • Cyclical Parthenogenesis in Daphnia: Sexual Versus Asexual Reproduction

    Ellen Decaestecker;Luc De Meester;Joachim Mergeay

  • Revision of the Old World Daphnia ( Ctenodaphnia ) similis group Cladocera: Daphniidae)

    Ekaterina V. Popova;Adam Petrusek;Vladimír Kořínek;Joachim Mergeay

  • Reliable eDNA detection and quantification of the European weather loach (Misgurnus fossilis).

    Rein Brys;David Halfmaerten;Sabrina Neyrinck;Quentin Mauvisseau

  • A cryptic invasion within an invasion and widespread introgression in the European water frog complex: consequences of uncontrolled commercial trade and weak international legislation

    G. Holsbeek;J. Mergeay;H. Hotz;J. Plötner

  • The role of selection in driving landscape genomic structure of the waterflea Daphnia magna.

    Luisa Orsini;Joachim Mergeay;Joachim Mergeay;Joost Vanoverbeke;Luc De Meester

  • The contribution of mating system variation to reproductive isolation in two closely related Centaurium species (Gentianaceae) with a generalized flower morphology

    Rein Brys;Rein Brys;An Vanden Broeck;Joachim Mergeay;Hans Jacquemyn

  • Macrogenetic studies must not ignore limitations of genetic markers and scale

    Ivan Paz-Vinas;Evelyn L Jensen;Laura D Bertola;Martin F Breed

  • The genetic legacy of polyploid Bolivian Daphnia: the tropical Andes as a source for the North and South American D. pulicaria complex

    Joachim Mergeay;Ximena Aguilera;Steven Declerck;Adam Petrusek

  • Cryptic invasion and dispersal of an American Daphnia in East Africa

    Joachim Mergeay;Dirk Verschuren;Luc De Meester

  • How to Maximally Support Local and Regional Biodiversity in Applied Conservation? Insights from Pond Management

    Pieter Lemmens;Joachim Mergeay;Joachim Mergeay;Tom De Bie;Jeroen Van Wichelen

  • Extinction, recolonization, and dispersal through time in a planktonic crustacean.

    Joachim Mergeay;Joost Vanoverbeke;Dirk Verschuren;Luc De Meester

  • Effective population size remains a suitable, pragmatic indicator of genetic diversity for all species, including forest trees

    S Hoban;I Paz-Vinas;S Aitken;LD Bertola

  • Local and regional founder effects in lake zooplankton persist after thousands of years despite high dispersal potential.

    Marc Ventura;Marc Ventura;A. Petrusek;Alexandre Miró;E. Hamrová

Frequent Co-Authors

Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
Sean Hoban
Sean Hoban Morton Arboretum
Margaret E. Hunter
Margaret E. Hunter United States Geological Survey
Rein Brys
Rein Brys Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Gernot Segelbacher
Gernot Segelbacher University of Freiburg
Robby Stoks
Robby Stoks KU Leuven
Dirk Verschuren
Dirk Verschuren Ghent University

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