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Steven Declerck

Steven Declerck

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
55
Citations
10742
World Ranking
2996
National Ranking
41

Overview

Steven Declerck is a researcher primarily affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, with an extensive record in environmental science focusing on freshwater ecosystems. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, environmental chemistry, oceanography, and genetics.

The main areas of research pursued involve fish ecology and management studies, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, marine and coastal ecosystems, physiological and biochemical adaptations, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as evolution and genetic dynamics.

Frequent collaboration is an important aspect of their research practice. Notable coauthors include Libin Zhou, Luc De Meester, Kimberley D. Lemmen, Sven Teurlincx, and Dedmer B. Van de Waal.

Steven Declerck has published multiple papers in well-recognized scientific journals. Noteworthy recent publications include:

  • Contribution of freshwater metazooplankton to aquatic ecosystem services: an overview, 2022, Hydrobiologia
  • Securing Biodiversity, Functional Integrity, and Ecosystem Services in Drying River Networks (DRYvER), 2021, Research Ideas and Outcomes
  • The Role of Microbiome and Genotype in Daphnia magna upon Parasite Re-Exposure, 2021, Genes
  • Beyond Daphnia: a plea for a more inclusive and unifying approach to freshwater zooplankton ecology, 2023, Hydrobiologia
  • Experimental evidence of rapid heritable adaptation in the absence of initial standing genetic variation, 2021, Functional Ecology

Among the venues where Steven Declerck has published most frequently are Hydrobiologia, Oikos, Freshwater Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Limnology and Oceanography.

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

  • Impacts of climate warming on lake fish community structure and potential effects on ecosystem function

    Erik Jeppesen;Mariana Meerhoff;Mariana Meerhoff;Kerstin Holmgren;Ivan González-Bergonzoni

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

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

  • Small habitat size and isolation can promote species richness: second-order effects on biodiversity in shallow lakes and ponds

    M. Scheffer;G.J. Van Geest;K. Zimmer;E. Jeppesen

  • The power of species sorting: Local factors drive bacterial community composition over a wide range of spatial scales

    Katleen Van der Gucht;Karl Cottenie;Koenraad Muylaert;Nele Vloemans

  • The ecology of European ponds: defining the characteristics of a neglected freshwater habitat

    R. Céréghino;J. Biggs;B. Oertli;S. Declerck

  • Dispersal ability determines the role of environmental, spatial and temporal drivers of metacommunity structure.

    André A. Padial;Fernanda Ceschin;Steven A. J. Declerck;Luc De Meester

  • Corticosteroids but not infliximab increase short-term postoperative infectious complications in patients with ulcerative colitis.

    M. Ferrante;A. D'Hoore;S. Vermeire;S. Declerck

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Effects of dispersal and environmental heterogeneity on the replacement and nestedness components of β-diversity.

    Andros T. Gianuca;Steven A. J. Declerck;Pieter Lemmens;Luc De Meester

  • Hatching of cladoceran resting eggs: temperature and photoperiod

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

  • Stoichiometric regulation of phytoplankton toxins

    Dedmer B. Van de Waal;Val H. Smith;Steven A. J. Declerck;Eva C. M. Stam

  • Integrating community assembly and biodiversity to better understand ecosystem function: the Community Assembly and the Functioning of Ecosystems (CAFE) approach.

    Katherine H. Bannar-Martin;Colin T. Kremer;S.K. Morgan Ernest;Mathew A. Leibold

  • Effects of connectivity, dispersal directionality and functional traits on the metacommunity structure of river benthic diatoms

    Jing Liu;Janne Soininen;Bo-Ping Han;Steven A. J. Declerck

  • Effect of macrophyte community composition and nutrient enrichment on plant biomass and algal blooms

    E.S. Bakker;E. Van Donk;S.A.J. Declerck;N.R. Helmsing

  • Plankton Biodiversity Along a Gradient of Productivity and Its Mediation by Macrophytes

    S. Declerck;M. Vanderstukken;A. Pals;K. Muylaert

  • Patterns of diet overlap between populations of non-indigenous and native fishes in shallow ponds

    Steven Declerck;Gerald Louette;Thomas De Bie;Luc De Meester

  • Integrative Taxonomy Recognizes Evolutionary Units Despite Widespread Mitonuclear Discordance: Evidence from a Rotifer Cryptic Species Complex

    Spiros Papakostas;Evangelia Michaloudi;Konstantinos Proios;Michaela Brehm

  • Climate change and the future of freshwater biodiversity in Europe: a primer for policy-makers

    Brian Moss;Daniel Hering;Andy J. Green;Ahmed Aidoud

Frequent Co-Authors

Luc De Meester
Luc De Meester Freie Universität Berlin
Luc Brendonck
Luc Brendonck KU Leuven
Wim Vyverman
Wim Vyverman Ghent University
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Joachim Mergeay
Joachim Mergeay Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Koen Martens
Koen Martens Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Torben L. Lauridsen
Torben L. Lauridsen Aarhus University
Ellen Van Donk
Ellen Van Donk Utrecht University

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