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Marjan De Block

Marjan De Block

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
31
Citations
3557
World Ranking
8250
National Ranking
107

Overview

Marjan De Block is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, contributing to research primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Aging, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology.

The research topics addressed by Marjan De Block encompass a range of biological and ecological phenomena. Key topics include:

  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms
  • Animal behavior and reproduction
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Plant pathogens and fungal diseases
  • Seed germination and physiology

Marjan De Block has been involved in publications across several academic journals. Notable publication venues include:

  • Oikos
  • European Journal of Horticultural Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Marjan De Block include:

  • "Live fast, die old: oxidative stress as a potential mediator of an unexpected life-history evolution," published in 2020 in Oikos
  • "A novel approach for obtaining rooted cuttings of old and recalcitrant Laurus nobilis trees," published in 2023 in the European Journal of Horticultural Science

Frequent collaborators in Marjan De Block's research efforts are:

  • Nedim Tüzün
  • Robby Stoks
  • Sridevy Sriskandarajah

Best Publications

  • FITNESS EFFECTS FROM EGG TO REPRODUCTION: BRIDGING THE LIFE HISTORY TRANSITION

    Marjan De Block;Robby Stoks

  • Predation cost of rapid growth: behavioural coupling and physiological decoupling

    Robby Stoks;Marjan De Block;Frank Van De Meutter;Frank Johansson

  • LIFE HISTORY PLASTICITY IN A DAMSELFLY: EFFECTS OF COMBINED TIME AND BIOTIC CONSTRAINTS

    Frank Johansson;Robby Stoks;Locke Rowe;Marjan De Block

  • Compensatory growth and oxidative stress in a damselfly.

    Marjan De Block;Robby Stoks

  • Physiological costs of compensatory growth in a damselfly.

    Robby Stoks;Marjan De Block;Marjan De Block;Mark A. McPeek

  • Temperature extremes and butterfly fitness: conflicting evidence from life history and immune function

    Isabell Karl;Robby Stoks;Marjan De Block;Susann A. Janowitz

  • Time constraints mediate predator-induced plasticity in immune function, condition, and life history.

    Robby Stoks;Marjan De Block;Marjan De Block;Stefanie Slos;Wendy Van Doorslaer

  • Short-term larval food stress and associated compensatory growth reduce adult immune function in a damselfly

    Marjan De Block;Robby Stoks

  • Alternative growth and energy storage responses to mortality threats in damselflies

    Robby Stoks;Marjan De Block;Mark A. McPeek

  • Behaviour and physiology shape the growth accelerations associated with predation risk, high temperatures and southern latitudes in Ischnura damselfly larvae

    Robby Stoks;Ine Swillen;Marjan De Block

  • Latitudinal and voltinism compensation shape thermal reaction norms for growth rate

    Lisa N. S. Shama;Lisa N. S. Shama;Lisa N. S. Shama;Melina Campero-Paz;Melina Campero-Paz;K. Mathias Wegner;K. Mathias Wegner;Marjan De Block

  • Generalists and specialists along a latitudinal transect: patterns of thermal adaptation in six species of damselflies

    Viktor Nilsson-Örtman;Robby Stoks;Marjan De Block;Frank Johansson;Frank Johansson

  • Rapid Growth Reduces Cold Resistance: Evidence from Latitudinal Variation in Growth Rate, Cold Resistance and Stress Proteins

    Robby Stoks;Marjan De Block

  • Life-history variation in relation to time constraints in a damselfly.

    Marjan De Block;Robby Stoks

  • Cannibalism‐mediated life history plasticity to combined time and food stress

    Marjan De Block;Robby Stoks

  • Local genetic adaptation generates latitude-specific effects of warming on predator-prey interactions.

    Marjan De Block;Kevin Pauwels;Maarten Van Den Broeck;Luc De Meester

  • Integrating life history and physiology to understand latitudinal size variation in a damselfly

    Marjan De Block;Stefanie Slos;Frank Johansson;Robby Stoks

  • Correcting the short-term effect of food deprivation in a damselfly: mechanisms and costs

    Melina Campero;Melina Campero;Marjan De Block;Frans Ollevier;Robby Stoks

  • Developmental costs of rapid growth in a damselfly

    Marjan De Block;Melina Campero;Robby Stoks

  • The influence of predator species and prey age on the immediate survival value of antipredator behaviours in a damselfly

    Robby Stoks;Marjan De Block

  • Fish predation selects for reduced foraging activity

    Francis Strobbe;Mark A. McPeek;Marjan De Block;Robby Stoks

Frequent Co-Authors

Robby Stoks
Robby Stoks KU Leuven
Frank Johansson
Frank Johansson Uppsala University
Mark A. McPeek
Mark A. McPeek Dartmouth College
Klaus Fischer
Klaus Fischer University of Greifswald
Erik Matthysen
Erik Matthysen University of Antwerp
Andrew P. Beckerman
Andrew P. Beckerman University of Sheffield
Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
Thierry Backeljau
Thierry Backeljau Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Ron Verhagen
Ron Verhagen University of Antwerp

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