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Water level fluctuations and metapopulation dynamics as drivers of genetic diversity in populations of three Tanganyikan cichlid fish species
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications/articlereference.2014-04-02.1452469054
No publisherPeer ReviewImpact FactorInternational Redaction BoardRBINS Collection(s)2014/04/02 10:19:05 GMT+1Article ReferenceWater chemistry and not urbanization influences community structure of non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) in northern Belgium
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications-2021/articlereference.2022-03-03.2280406893
Urbanization is one of the major causes of the destruction of natural habitats in the world. Cities are urban heat islands and can thus significantly influence populations of plants and animals. The research project SPEEDY investigated the effects of urbanization in northern Belgium with a nested sampling design at local and landscape scales for a variety of organisms. Here, we tested the effects of urbanization on non-marine ostracod communities, sampling 81 small pools in three urbanization categories, as defined by percentage built up cover (low, intermediate, high). We identified 17 ostracod species, together occurring in 60 of the 81 sampled pools. We found that urbanization per se had no significant effect on ostracod communities. Of all the measured local factors, ammonium and total phosphorus concentrations had a significant effect on the community structure. In contrast, water temperature had no significant effect, most likely because the ostracod species found in northern Belgium in the present survey mostly have wide temperature tolerances.No publisherPeer ReviewOpen AccessImpact Factor2022/03/03 11:35:00 GMT+1Article ReferenceWat vooraf ging: twee rivaliserende kampen - L'histoire préliminaire : Deux camp rivaux
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications-2022/inbookreference.2022-12-08.4325463127
No publisherRBINS Publication(s)Peer ReviewPopular Science2022/12/08 10:30:00 GMT+1Inbook ReferenceVulnerability of the Belgian Coastal Lowlands to Future Sea-level Rise
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications/incollectionreference.2013-05-06.5286886044
No publisherPeer ReviewInternational Redaction Board2013/05/06 09:08:52 GMT+1Incollection ReferenceVulnerability of sexual and asexual Eucypris virens (Crustacea, Ostracoda) to predation: an experimental approach with dragonfly naiads
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications/articlereference.2015-12-01.3463966198
No publisherPeer ReviewInternational Redaction BoardImpact Factor2015/12/01 16:27:10 GMT+1Article ReferenceVulnerability of sexual and asexual Eucypris virens (Crustacea, Ostracoda) to predation: an experimental approach with dragonfly naiads
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications/articlereference.2013-03-06.7633251127
No publisherPeer ReviewImpact Factor2013/03/06 16:25:00 GMT+1Article ReferenceVoortplantende populatie van de Purperslak Nucella lapillus in Belgie na meer dan 30 jaar afwezigheid (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Muricidae)
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications/articlereference.2013-04-08.1241296538
In the past, the dog whelk Nucella lapillus (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Muricidae) used to be a common species on jetties and groynes along the Belgian coast. During the seventies, the species became increasingly rare and the last Belgian specimen observed in situ was found in 1981. The extinction of the species is attributed to the use of paintings containing tributyltin (TBT) on the hulls of ships as antifouling protection. TBT dilutes in seawater and, even at extremely low concentration, sterilizes dog whelks. Since 1990, the use of Tributyltin (TBT) was restricted to ships smaller than 25 m; in 2003, it was totally forbidden and in 2008 old TBT paintings had to be removed from ship hulls. As a consequence the concentration in TBT of seawater presumably decreased in Belgian waters. On November 17th, 2012, several living adult dog whelks and 40 to 50 spawns ofthat species were observed on the concrete blocks of the western jetty of Zeebrugge harbour, indicating recolonization of the species in Belgium at least in one locality.No publisherPeer Review2013/04/08 16:40:00 GMT+1Article ReferenceVolcanic tuff, an exotic historical building stone in Flanders
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications-2017/inproceedingsreference.2018-02-15.7677948535
No publisherPeer Review2018/02/15 14:25:00 GMT+1Inproceedings Reference Visualizing Cross-Sectional Data in a Real-World Context
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/no-rbins-staff-publications/VanNoten2016-EOS
If you could fly around your research results in three dimensions, wouldn’t you like to do it? Combining the capabilities of an open-source drawing tool with Google Earth maps allows researchers/geologists to visualize real-world cross-sectional data in three dimensions. Any spatial model displaying research results can be exported to a vertical figure to enable the results to be visualized spatially.No publisherPeer ReviewOpen AccessImpact Factor2017/05/05 14:03:14 GMT+1Article ReferenceVirus influenza aviaire hautement pathogène H5N8: particularités et implication pour la surveillance en Belgique.
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/no-rbins-staff-publications/articlereference.2017-03-17.2821106657
No publisherPeer ReviewImpact Factor2017/03/17 11:20:00 GMT+1Article ReferenceVirtual reconstruction of the skull of Bernissartia fagesii and current understanding of the neosuchian–eusuchian transition
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications-2020/articlereference.2020-06-26.1656722958
Since the description of Isisfordia duncani, a number of new extinct species and revisions of previously described species have prompted a variety of contradicting phylogenetic hypotheses on the topology of Neosuchia. As a consequence, a consensus on the rooting of Eusuchia in relation to other neosuchian clades has not been reached and the origin of the group remains unsettled. Exemplifying this, Bernissartia fagesii, from the Early Cretaceous of Belgium, has long been considered a key taxon for understanding the origin of Eusuchia, but more recent hypotheses found support for a more basal position, as an ally to goniopholidids, paralligatorids or atoposaurids. Because many details of the anatomy of the type specimen are hidden by glue and the sediment adhering to the fossils, a number of characters are pending confirmation. Based on computed tomography data, we extract bones of the cranium and mandibles, describe new characters and re-evaluate anatomical details in the lectotype specimen. Our phylogenetic analysis confirms that B. fagesii is a derived neosuchian, unrelated to atoposaurids, goniopholidids and paralligatorids. We recover B. fagesii and Koumpiodontosuchus aprosdokiti in a basal position within Eusuchia, together with Susisuchidae, a group of gondwanan neosuchians containing Susisuchus and Isisfordia, which here form a polytomy with Hylaeochampsidae. The presence/absence of pterygoid-bound internal choanae cannot be used to fully resolve relationships at the neosuchian–eusuchian transition because of the variability of this character even at the familial level, as recently reported within susisuchids and bernissartiids. There is no doubt that true eusuchians were present in Laurasia as early as the Early Cretaceous, the hylaeochampsid Hylaeochampsa vectiana being the oldest (Barremian) undoubted representative. But whether the Eusuchia were also present in southern landmasses depends on solving the phylogenetic position of susisuchids and other less known gondwanan forms within or outside Eusuchia.No publisherPeer ReviewInternational Redaction BoardImpact FactorRBINS Collection(s)2020/06/26 09:30:00 GMT+1Article ReferenceVirtual reconstruction of the Neandertal lower limbs with an estimation of hamstring muscle moment arms
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications/articlereference.2012-12-30.9762280004
A major problem of fossil hominid analysis is a lack of complete specimens. Many individual specimens have been damaged by the effects of diagenesis and excavation. Significant advances in the field of three dimensional image processing (3D) have enabled the creation of accurately scaled reconstructions of individual fossil bones using mirrored parts of the same fossil bone or human/fossil hominid equivalents. This study presents, for the first time, a method to reconstruct a 3D virtual model of the lower limb of the Neandertal using different bones from different fossil remains (Spy II, Neandertal 1 and Kebara 2) and integrating them into a single model of the Neandertal lower limb. A biomechanical analysis of the model was performed, including computer graphics visualization of the results, motion displacement graphs and muscle moment arms. The overall method has been implemented into an open-source customized software (lhpFusionBox) developed for the biomechanical study of the musculoskeletal system.No publisherPeer ReviewImpact FactorInternational Redaction BoardRBINS Collection(s)2013/02/01 09:47:15 GMT+1Article ReferenceViroinval/Treignes : campagne de fouilles 2020 à la grotte Genvier.
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications-2021/articlereference.2023-01-20.9350103740
Imprimé avril 2022, AWaPNo publisherPeer ReviewOpen Access2023/01/20 16:40:58 GMT+1Article ReferenceVillers-le-Bouillet/Villers-le-Bouillet : une occupation rurale du Haut Moyen Âge au lieu-dit « A Lohincou » : premiers résultats archéobotaniques.
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications/inproceedingsreference.2016-01-18.3564779531
No publisherPeer ReviewOpen Access2016/01/18 14:25:00 GMT+1Inproceedings ReferenceVestiges d’un habitat du second âge du Fer à Verlaine « Plantation Buttiens » (prov. De Liège, Belgique).
https://biblio.naturalsciences.be/library-1/rbins-staff-publications-2018/articlereference.2018-12-19.2668973844
No publisherPeer Review2018/12/19 10:42:15 GMT+1Article Reference