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Luc Brendonck

Luc Brendonck

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
56
Citations
13609
World Ranking
2810
National Ranking
34

Overview

Luc Brendonck is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, focusing extensively on Environmental Science. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics related to aquatic ecosystems and organisms. Their main areas of work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity, and Mosquito-borne diseases and control.

Frequent coauthors in their collaborations are:

  • Tom Pinceel
  • Bram Vanschoenwinkel
  • Eli S.J. Thoré
  • Linus K. Munishi
  • Lizaan de Necker

Publications by Luc Brendonck have appeared regularly in a range of journals. The most common venues include The Science of The Total Environment, Hydrobiologia, Environmental Pollution, Chemosphere, and Aquatic Toxicology.

Recent notable publications include:

  • "The future of temporary wetlands in drylands under global change" (2021, Inland Waters)
  • "Towards improved fish tests in ecotoxicology - Efficient chronic and multi-generational testing with the killifish Nothobranchius furzeri" (2021, Chemosphere)
  • "Antidepressant exposure reduces body size, increases fecundity and alters social behavior in the short-lived killifish Nothobranchius furzeri" (2020, Environmental Pollution)
  • "Determining tributary sources of increased sedimentation in East-African Rift Lakes" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Social-ecological assessment of Lake Manyara basin, Tanzania: A mixed method approach" (2020, Journal of Environmental Management)

Best Publications

  • Body size and dispersal mode as key traits determining metacommunity structure of aquatic organisms

    T. De Bie;L. De Meester;Luc Brendonck;K. Martens;K. Martens

  • Egg banks in freshwater zooplankton: evolutionary and ecological archives in the sediment

    Luc Brendonck;Luc De Meester

  • Ponds and pools as model systems in conservation biology, ecology and evolutionary biology

    Luc De Meester;Steven Declerck;Robby Stoks;Gerald Louette

  • Rapid, local adaptation of zooplankton behavior to changes in predation pressure in the absence of neutral genetic changes

    C Cousyn;L De Meester;JK Colbourne;L Brendonck

  • Die Haplopoda und Cladocera (ohne Bosminidae) Mitteleuropas

    Luc De Meester;L. Forro;L. Schwenk;Luc Brendonck

  • Ecological characteristics of small farmland ponds: Associations with land use practices at multiple spatial scales

    Steven Declerck;Thomas De Bie;Dirk Ercken;Henrietta Hampel

  • Global diversity of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in freshwater

    Luc Brendonck;D. Christopher Rogers;Jorgen Olesen;Stephen Weeks

  • MULTI‐GROUP BIODIVERSITY IN SHALLOW LAKES ALONG GRADIENTS OF PHOSPHORUS AND WATER PLANT COVER

    S.A.J. Declerck;J. Vandekerkhove;L. Johansson;K. Muylaert

  • Invertebrate community patterns in Mediterranean temporary wetlands along hydroperiod and salinity gradients

    Aline Waterkeyn;Patrick Grillas;Bram Jasper Vanschoenwinkel;L. Brendonck

  • Any way the wind blows ‐ frequent wind dispersal drives species sorting in ephemeral aquatic communities

    Bram Jasper Vanschoenwinkel;Saidja Gielen;Maitland Seaman;L. Brendonck

  • Diapause, quiescence, hatching requirements: what we can learn from large freshwater branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca, Notostraca, Conchostraca)

    Luc Brendonck

  • Scale dependency of processes structuring metacommunities of cladocerans in temporary pools of High-Andes wetlands

    Steven A. J. Declerck;Jorge S. Coronel;Pierre Legendre;Luc Brendonck

  • The role of metacommunity processes in shaping invertebrate rock pool communities along a dispersal gradient

    Bram Vanschoenwinkel;Chris De Vries;Maitland Seaman;Luc Brendonck

  • Hatching of cladoceran resting eggs: temperature and photoperiod

    Jochen Vandekerkhove;Steven Declerck;Luc Brendonck;José Maria Conde‐Porcuna

  • Relative importance of different dispersal vectors for small aquatic invertebrates in a rock pool metacommunity

    Bram Vanschoenwinkel;Saïdja Gielen;Hanne Vandewaerde;Maitland Seaman

  • The impact of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) in a eutrophic subtropical impoundment (Lake Chivero, Zimbabwe). II. Species diversity

    Luc Brendonck;Joachim Maes;Wouter Rommens;Nzwirashe Dekeza

  • Climatic control of dispersal–ecological specialization trade‐offs: a metacommunity process at the heart of the latitudinal diversity gradient?

    Merlijn Jocque;Richard Field;Luc Brendonck;Luc De Meester

  • Wind‐borne short‐range egg dispersal in anostracans (Crustacea: Branchiopoda)

    Luc Brendonck;Bruce J. Riddoch

  • Freshwater rock pools: a review of habitat characteristics, faunal diversity and conservation value

    Merlijn Jocque;Merlijn Jocque;Bram Jasper Vanschoenwinkel;L. Brendonck

  • Community structure in temporary freshwater pools: disentangling the effects of habitat size and hydroregime

    Bram Vanschoenwinkel;Ann Hulsmans;Els De Roeck;Chris De Vries

Frequent Co-Authors

Bram Vanschoenwinkel
Bram Vanschoenwinkel Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
Patrick Grillas
Patrick Grillas Tour du Valat
Okke Batelaan
Okke Batelaan Flinders University
Maarten P.M. Vanhove
Maarten P.M. Vanhove Hasselt University
Koen Martens
Koen Martens Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Victor Wepener
Victor Wepener North-West University
Nico J. Smit
Nico J. Smit North-West University
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University

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