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Researcher
Dirk Verschuren
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163
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2025
A continuous 150-kyr record of geomagnetic field variations from Lake Chala, Eastern Equatorial Africa
Anita Di Chiara
Vassil Karloukovski
Barbara A. Maher
Maarten Van Daele
Thijs Van der Meeren
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS
2025
2024
A lake record of geomagnetic secular variations for the last 23 ka from Lake Chala : toward a composite directional lake record of the Earth's magnetic field for equatorial East Africa
A. Di Chiara
M. W. Hounslow
B. A. Maher
V. Karloukovski
Maarten Van Daele
M. Blaauw
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS
2024
The >250-kyr Lake Chala record : a tephrostratotype correlating archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and volcanic sequences across eastern Africa
Catherine Martin-Jones
Christine S. Lane
Maarten Blaauw
Darren F. Mark
Dirk Verschuren
Thijs Van der Meeren
Maarten Van Daele
Hannah Wynton
Nick Blegen
Mary Kisaka
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2024
2023
Accelerated soil erosion and sedimentation associated with agricultural activity in crater-lake catchments of Western Uganda
Wannes De Crop
Dirk Verschuren
Nick Ryken
Rose Basooma
Tomma Judith Okuonzia
Ann Verdoodt
A1
Journal Article
in
LAND
2023
High-throughput sequencing and marker pigment analysis of freshwater phytoplankton : a direct comparison with microscopic count data in the tropical crater lakes of Western Uganda
Heidi Tanttu
Dirk Verschuren
Wannes De Crop
Angela Nankabirwa
Christine Cocquyt
Bjorn Tytgat
Elie Verleyen
A1
Journal Article
in
LIMNOLOGICA
2023
Molecular ecology of trematode communities within intermediate host snail populations of human impacted tropical crater lakes (Uganda)
Cyril Hammoud
Dirk Verschuren
Tine Huyse
Bert Van Bocxlaer
Christian Albrecht
Dissertation
2023
Reversed Holocene temperature-moisture relationship in the Horn of Africa
A. J. Baxter
Dirk Verschuren
F. Peterse
Diego Miralles
C. M. Martin-Jones
A. Maitituerdi
Thijs Van der Meeren
Maarten Van Daele
C. S. Lane
G. H. Haug
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
NATURE
2023
Checklist of the diatoms (Bacillariophyta) from Lake Naivasha, Kenya, with some historical notes
Christine Cocquyt
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
PHYTOKEYS
2023
2022
A predominantly tropical influence on late Holocene hydroclimate variation in the hyperarid central Sahara
Thijs Van der Meeren
Dirk Verschuren
Florence Sylvestre
Yacoub A. Nassour
Evi Naudts
Luis Aguilar Ortiz
Pierre Deschamps
Kazuyo Tachikawa
Edouard Bard
Mathieu Schuster
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
SCIENCE ADVANCES
2022
Depositional history of Lake Chala (Mt. Kilimanjaro, equatorial East Africa) from high-resolution seismic stratigraphy
Aihemaiti Maitituerdi
Maarten Van Daele
Dirk Verschuren
Marc De Batist
Nicolas Waldmann
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES
2022
Simultaneous genotyping of snails and infecting trematode parasites using high-throughput amplicon sequencing
Cyril Hammoud
Stephen Mulero
Bert Van Bocxlaer
Jerome Boissier
Dirk Verschuren
Christian Albrecht
Tine Huyse
A1
Journal Article
in
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
2022
Vulnerability of tropical crater lakes to water-quality loss : a natural experiment in western Uganda
Wannes De Crop
Dirk Verschuren
Ann Verdoodt
John Stephen Balirwa
Dissertation
2022
2021
Anoxic in situ production of bacterial GMGTs in the water column and surficial bottom sediments of a meromictic tropical crater lake: Implications for lake paleothermometry
A. J. Baxter
F. Peterse
Dirk Verschuren
J. S. Sinninghe Damste
A1
Journal Article
in
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
2021
Atmospheric controls on precipitation isotopes and hydroclimate in high-elevation regions in Eastern Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum
Sloane Garelick
James M. Russell
Sylvia Dee
Dirk Verschuren
Daniel O. Olago
A1
Journal Article
in
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
2021
Climate-human-landscape interaction in the eastern foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro (equatorial East Africa) during the last two millennia
Geert van der Plas
Stephen M. Rucina
Andreas Hemp
Robert A. Marchant
Henry Hooghiemstra
Lisa Schueler
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
HOLOCENE
2021
Mixing regimes in the equatorial crater lakes of western Uganda
Wannes De Crop
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
LIMNOLOGICA
2021
Past and present phytoplankton communities in East-African crater lakes : paleolimnology and biomonitoring
Heidi Tanttu
Elie Verleyen
Dirk Verschuren
Dissertation
2021
Population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion
Dirk Seidensticker
Wannes Hubau
Dirk Verschuren
Cesar Fortes-Lima
Pierre de Maret
Carina M. Schlebusch
Koen Bostoen
A1
Journal Article
in
SCIENCE ADVANCES
2021
Seasonal and multi-annual variation in the abundance of isoprenoid GDGT membrane lipids and their producers in the water column of a meromictic equatorial crater lake (Lake Chala, East Africa)
A. J. Baxter
L. G. J. van Bree
F. Peterse
E. C. Hopmans
L. Villanueva
Dirk Verschuren
J. S. Sinninghe Damste
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2021
Seasonality in diet and feeding habits of the endemic Chala tilapia (Oreochromis hunteri) and two introduced tilapiine cichlids in Lake Chala, East Africa
Jorunn Dieleman
Christine Cocquyt
Wanja Dorothy Nyingi
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
HYDROBIOLOGIA
2021
Zoobenthos community turnover in a 1650-yr lake-sediment record of climate-driven hydrological change
Thijs Van der Meeren
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
ECOSPHERE
2021
2020
Anthropogenic alteration of nutrient supply increases the global freshwater carbon sink
N. J. Anderson
A. J. Heathcote
D. R. Engstrom
D. B. Ryves
K. Mills
Y. T. Prairie
P. A. del Giorgio
H. Bennion
S. Turner
N. L. Rose
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
SCIENCE ADVANCES
2020
Climatic and anthropogenic drivers of landscape change in equatorial East Africa during the last two millennia
Geert van der Plas
Dirk Verschuren
Dissertation
2020
Ecological assessment of rivers and streams in the Rwenzori Region, Uganda
Peace Sasha Liz Musonge
Peter Goethals
Dirk Verschuren
Pieter Boets
Dissertation
2020
History of scoria-cone eruptions on the eastern shoulder of the Kenya-Tanzania Rift revealed in the 250-ka sediment record of Lake Chala near Mount Kilimanjaro
Catherine Martin-Jones
Christine Lane
Maarten Van Daele
Thijs Van der Meeren
Christian Wolff
Heather Moorhouse
Emma Tomlinson
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE
2020
Reconstructing East African monsoon variability from grain-size distributions : end-member modeling and source attribution of diatom-rich sediments from Lake Chala
Inka Meyer
Maarten Van Daele
Niels Tanghe
Marc De Batist
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2020
Seasonal variability and sources of in situ brGDGT production in a permanently stratified African crater lake
Loes G. J. van Bree
Francien Peterse
Allix J. Baxter
Wannes De Crop
Sigrid van Grinsven
Laura Villanueva
Dirk Verschuren
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damste
A1
Journal Article
in
BIOGEOSCIENCES
2020
Tracing ancient animal husbandry in tropical Africa using the fossil spore assemblages of coprophilous fungi : a validation study in western Uganda
Lore Goethals
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY
2020
Water‐isotope ecohydrology of Mount Kilimanjaro
Samuel Bodé
Lien De Wispelaere
Andreas Hemp
Dirk Verschuren
Pascal Boeckx
A1
Journal Article
in
ECOHYDROLOGY
2020
2019
Baseline assessment of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure and ecological water quality in Rwenzori rivers (Albertine rift valley, Uganda) using biotic-index tools
Peace Sasha Liz Musonge
Pieter Boets
Koen Lock
Naomi Minar Damanik Ambarita
Marie Anne Eurie Forio
Dirk Verschuren
Peter Goethals
A1
Journal Article
in
LIMNOLOGICA
2019
Determining patterns of stratification and mixing in tropical crater lakes through intermittent water-column profiling : a case study in western Uganda
Wannes De Crop
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES
2019
Distinct phases of natural landscape dynamics and intensifying human activity in the central Kenya Rift Valley during the past 1300 years
Geert van der Plas
Gijs De Cort
Nik Petek-Sargeant
Tabitha Wuytack
Daniele Colombaroli
Paul J Lane
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2019
Ecohydrological evolution of Lake Naivasha (central Rift Valley, Kenya) during the past 1650 years, as recorded by ostracod assemblages and stable-isotope geochemistry
Thijs Van der Meeren
Emi Ito
Kathleen R. Laird
Brian F. Cumming
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2019
Influence of plant growth form, habitat and season on leaf-wax n-alkane hydrogen-isotopic signatures in equatorial East Africa
Marco Griepentrog
Lien De Wispelaere
Marijn Bauters
Samuel Bodé
Andreas Hemp
Dirk Verschuren
Pascal Boeckx
A1
Journal Article
in
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
2019
Late-Holocene sedimentation and sodium carbonate deposition in hypersaline, alkaline Nasikie Engida, southern Kenya Rift Valley
Gijs De Cort
Florias Mees
Robin W Renaut
Matthias Sinnesael
Thijs Van der Meeren
Steven Goderis
Edward Keppens
Anthony Mbuthia
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2019
Les Lacs d'Ounianga : mieux comprendre leur dynamique hydrologique et écologique par une approche interdisciplinaire
Thijs Van der Meeren
Pierre Deschamps
Florence Sylvestre
Baouyé Kemkong
Abderamane Moussa
Mathieu Schuster
Dirk Verschuren
Bookchapter
in
Le Tchad des lacs : les zones humides sahéliennes au défi du changement global
2019
Phytoplankton communities in the crater lakes of western Uganda, and their indicator species in relation to lake trophic status
Angela Nankabirwa
Wannes De Crop
Thijs Van der Meeren
Christine Cocquyt
Pierre-Denis Plisnier
John Balirwa
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
2019
Recurrent changes in cichlid dentition linked to climate-driven lake-level fluctuations
Jorunn Dieleman
Bert Van Bocklaer
Wanja Dorothy Nyingi
Anna Lyaruu
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
ECOSPHERE
2019
Species integrity and origin of Oreochromis hunteri (Pisces: Cichlidae), endemic to crater Lake Chala (Kenya-Tanzania)
Jorunn Dieleman
Moritz Muschick
Wanja Dorothy Nyingi
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
HYDROBIOLOGIA
2019
2018
Determinants of savanna-fire dynamics in the eastern Lake Victoria catchment (western Kenya) during the last 1200 years
Daniele Colombaroli
Geert van der Plas
Stephen Rucina
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
2018
Multi-basin depositional framework for moisture-balance reconstruction during the last 1300 years at Lake Bogoria, central Kenya Rift Valley
Gijs De Cort
Dirk Verschuren
Els Ryken
Christian Wolff
Robin W Renaut
Mike Creutz
Thijs Van der Meeren
Gerald Haug
Daniel O Olago
Florias Mees
A1
Journal Article
in
SEDIMENTOLOGY
2018
Origin, formation and environmental significance of des-A-arborenes in the sediments of an East African crater lake
L. G. J. van Bree
M. M. Islam
W. I. C. Rijpstra
Dirk Verschuren
A. C. T. van Duin
J. S. Sinninghe Damste
W. de Leeuw
A1
Journal Article
in
ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY
2018
Response of an African tilapia (Oreochromis hunteri) to long-term environmental fluctuations : an integrated approach combining the fossil record and modern-day system
Jorunn Dieleman
Dirk Verschuren
Bert Van Bocxlaer
Dissertation
2018
Sediment reflectance spectroscopy as a paleo-hydrological proxy in East Africa
Inka Meyer
Maarten Van Daele
Géraldine Fiers
Elie Verleyen
Marc De Batist
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS
2018
2017
A revised classification and terminology for stacked and amalgamated turbidites in environments dominated by (hemi)pelagic sedimentation
Maarten Van Daele
Inka Meyer
Jasper Moernaut
Steven De Decker
Dirk Verschuren
Marc De Batist
A1
Journal Article
in
SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY
2017
Plant water resource partitioning and isotopic fractionation during transpiration in a seasonally dry tropical climate
Lien De Wispelaere
Samuel Bodé
Pedro Alejandro Hervé Fernández
Andreas Hemp
Dirk Verschuren
Pascal Boeckx
A1
Journal Article
in
BIOGEOSCIENCES
2017
The tropical lapse rate steepened during the Last Glacial Maximum
Shannon E Loomis
James M Russell
Dirk Verschuren
Carrie Morrill
Gijs De Cort
Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
Daniel Olago
Hilde Eggermont
F Alayne Street-Perrott
Meredith A Kelly
A1
Journal Article
in
SCIENCE ADVANCES
2017
2016
African hydroclimatic variability during the last 2000 years
David J Nash
Gijs De Cort
Brian M Chase
Dirk Verschuren
Sharon E Nicholson
Timothy M Shanahan
Asfawossen Asrat
Anne-Marie Lézine
Stefan W Grab
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2016
Comparison of simulated and reconstructed variations in East African hydroclimate over the last millennium
François Klein
Hugues Goosse
Nicholas E Graham
Dirk Verschuren
A2
Journal Article
in
CLIMATE OF THE PAST DISCUSSIONS
2016
Comparison of simulated and reconstructed variations in East African hydroclimate over the last millennium
François Klein
Hugues Goosse
Nicholas E Graham
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
CLIMATE OF THE PAST
2016
Des-A-lupane in an East African lake sedimentary record as a new proxy for the stable carbon isotopic composition of C₃ plants
LGJ van Bree
WIC Rijpstra
NA Al-Dhabi
Dirk Verschuren
JS Sinninghe Damsté
JW de Leeuw
A1
Journal Article
in
ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY
2016
Distribution and community structure of Ostracoda (Crustacea) in shallow waterbodies of southern Kenya
Bob Rumes
Thijs Van der Meeren
Koenraad Martens
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC SCIENCE
2016
Holocene hydroclimate reconstruction in East Africa, based on multi-proxy analysis of lake sediments
Gijs De Cort
Dirk Verschuren
Phlorias Mees
Dissertation
2016
Interannual and (multi-)decadal variability in the sedimentary BIT index of Lake Challa, East Africa, over the past 2200 years : assessment of the precipitation proxy
Laura K Buckles
Dirk Verschuren
Johan WH Weijers
Christine Cocquyt
Maarten Blaauw
Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
A1
Journal Article
in
CLIMATE OF THE PAST
2016
Recent environmental history of the desert oasis lakes at Ounianga Serir, Chad
Mike Creutz
Bert Van Bocxlaer
Moussa Abderamane
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2016
2015
A late-Quaternary perspective on atmospheric pCO(2), climate, and fire as drivers of C-4-grass abundance
Michael A Urban
David M Nelson
F Alayne Street-Perrott
Dirk Verschuren
Feng Sheng Hu
A1
Journal Article
in
ECOLOGY
2015
Biogenic Si analysis in volcanically imprinted lacustrine systems: the case of Lake Rutundu (Mt. Kenya)
Lúcia Barão
Gijs De Cort
Patrick Meire
Dirk Verschuren
Eric Struyf
A1
Journal Article
in
BIOGEOCHEMISTRY
2015
Short-term variability in the sedimentary BIT index of Lake Challa, East Africa over the past 2200 years : validating the precipitation proxy
LK Buckles
JWH Weijers
Dirk Verschuren
Christine Cocquyt
JS Sinninghe Damsté
A2
Journal Article
in
CLIMATE OF THE PAST DISCUSSIONS
2015
Tracing functional adaptation in African cichlid fishes through morphometric analysis of fossil teeth: exploring the methods
Jorunn Dieleman
Bert Van Bocxlaer
Claudia Manntschke
Dorothy Wanja Nyingi
Dominique Adriaens
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
HYDROBIOLOGIA
2015
2014
Chironomid distribution along a pollution gradient in Ethiopian rivers, and their potential for biological water quality monitoring
G Beneberu
S Mengistou
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC SCIENCE
2014
Contrasting long-term records of biomass burning in wet and dry savannas of equatorial East Africa
Daniele Colombaroli
Immaculate Ssemmanda
Vanessa Gelorini
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
2014
Effects of temperature, pH, and nutrient concentration on branched GDGT distributions in East African lakes: implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions
Shannon E Loomis
James M Russell
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
Jaap Sinninghe Damsté
A1
Journal Article
in
ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY
2014
Modern seasonality in Lake Challa (Kenya/Tanzania) and its sedimentary documentation in recent lake sediments
Christian Wolff
Iris Kristen-Jenny
Georg Schettler
Birgit Plessen
Hanno Meyer
Peter Dulski
Rudolf Naumann
Achim Brauer
Dirk Verschuren
Gerald H Haug
A1
Journal Article
in
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
2014
Origin and palaeoenvironmental significance of C25 and C27n-alk-1-enes in a 25,000-year lake-sedimentary record from equatorial East Africa
LGJ van Bree
WIC Rijpstra
Christine Cocquyt
NA Al-Dhabi
Dirk Verschuren
JS Sinninghe Damsté
JW de Leeuw
A1
Journal Article
in
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
2014
Potential biological sources of long chain alkyl diols in a lacustrine system
Laura Villanueva
Marc Besseling
Marta Rodrigo-Gámiz
Sebastiaan W Rampen
Dirk Verschuren
Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
A1
Journal Article
in
ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY
2014
Sensitivity of East African savannah vegetation to historical moisture-balance variation
I Ssemmanda
Vanessa Gelorini
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
CLIMATE OF THE PAST
2014
Sensitivity of the grassland-forest ecotone in East African open woodland savannah to historical rainfall variation
Immaculate Ssemmanda
Vanessa Gelorini
Dirk Verschuren
A2
Journal Article
in
CLIMATE OF THE PAST DISCUSSIONS
2014
Sources of core and intact branched tetraether membrane lipids in the lacustrine environment: anatomy of Lake Challa and its catchment, equatorial East Africa
Laura K Buckles
Johan WH Weijers
Dirk Verschuren
Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
A1
Journal Article
in
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
2014
The contribution of intra- and interspecific tolerance variability to biodiversity changes along toxicity gradients
Frederik De Laender
Carlos J Melian
Richard Bindler
Paul J Van den Brink
Michiel Daam
Helene Roussel
Jonas Juselius
Dirk Verschuren
Colin Janssen
A1
Journal Article
in
ECOLOGY LETTERS
2014
2013
Ancient charcoal as a natural archive for paleofire regime and vegetation change in the Mayumbe, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wannes Hubau
Jan Van den Bulcke
Peter Kitin
Florias Mees
Geert Baert
Dirk Verschuren
Laurent Nsenga
Joris Van Acker
Hans Beeckman
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY RESEARCH
2013
Carbon cycling within an East African lake revealed by the carbon isotope composition of diatom silica: a 25-ka record from Lake Challa, Mt. Kilimanjaro
Philip A Barker
Elizabeth R Hurrell
Melanie J Leng
Birgit Plessen
Christian Wolff
Daniel J Conley
Eddy Keppens
Isla Milne
Brian F Cumming
Kathleen R Laird
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2013
Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia
Moinuddin Ahmed
Kevin J Anchukaitis
Asfawossen Asrat
Hemant P Borgaonkar
Martina Braida
Brendan M Buckley
Ulf Büntgen
Brian M Chase
Duncan A Christie
Edward R Cook
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
NATURE GEOSCIENCE
2013
Historical climate-human-ecosystem interaction in East Africa: a review
Vanessa Gelorini
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
2013
Late-Holocene and recent hydroclimatic variability in the central Kenya Rift Valley: the sediment record of hypersaline lakes Bogoria, Nakuru and Elementeita
Gijs De Cort
Ilse Bessems
Edward Keppens
Florias Mees
Brian Cumming
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
2013
Linking isoprenoidal GDGT membrane lipid distributions with gene abundances of ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota and uncultured crenarchaeotal groups in the water column of a tropical lake (Lake Challa, East Africa)
Laura K Buckles
Laura Villanueva
Johan WH Weijers
Dirk Verschuren
Jaap S Sinninghe Damste
A1
Journal Article
in
ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
2013
Temperature variability over Africa during the last 2000 years
Sharon E Nicholson
David J Nash
Brian M Chase
Stefan W Grab
Timothy M Shanahan
Dirk Verschuren
Asfawossen Asrat
Anne-Marie Lézine
Mohammed Umer
A1
Journal Article
in
HOLOCENE
2013
Varved sediments of Lake Yoa (Ounianga Kebir, Chad) reveal progressive drying of the Sahara during the last 6100 years
Pierre Francus
Hans Von Suchodoletz
Michael Dietze
Reik V. Donner
Frédéric Bouchard
Ann-Julie Roy
Maureen Fagot
Dirk Verschuren
Stefan Kröpelin
A1
Journal Article
in
SEDIMENTOLOGY
2013
2012
Biodiversity of freshwater diatom communities during 1000 years of metal mining, land use, and climate change in Central Sweden
Frederik De Laender
Dirk Verschuren
Richard Bindler
Olivier Thas
Colin Janssen
A1
Journal Article
in
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2012
Distribution of tetraether lipids in the 25-ka sedimentary record of Lake Challa: extracting reliable TEX86 and MBT/CBT palaeotemperatures from an equatorial African lake
Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
Jort Ossebaar
Stefan Schouten
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2012
Effects of land use on the fungal spore richness in small crater-lake basins of western Uganda
Vanessa Gelorini
Annemieke Verbeken
Luc Lens
Hilde Eggermont
Bent Vad Odgaard
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
FUNGAL DIVERSITY
2012
Long-term variability and rainfall control of savanna fire regimes in equatorial East Africa
David M Nelson
Dirk Verschuren
Michael A Urban
Feng Sheng Hu
A1
Journal Article
in
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
2012
Subfossil ostracode assemblages from Mongolia: quantifying response for paleolimnological applications
Thijs Van der Meeren
S Mischke
N Sunjidmaa
U Herzschuh
E Ito
Koenraad Martens
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
2012
Validation of non-pollen palynomorphs as paleoenvironmental indicators in tropical Africa: contrasting ~200-year paleolimnological records of climate change and human impact
Vanessa Gelorini
Immaculate Ssemmanda
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY
2012
2011
A 25,000-year record of climate-induced changes in lowland vegetation of eastern equatorial Africa revealed by the stable carbon-isotopic composition of fossil plant leaf waxes
Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
Dirk Verschuren
Jort Ossebaar
Jord Blokker
Rianne van Houten
Marcel TJ van der Meer
Birgit Plessen
Stefan Schouten
A1
Journal Article
in
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
2011
Developing a methodology for carbon isotope analysis of lacustrine diatoms
Elizabeth R Hurrell
Philip A Barker
Melanie J Leng
Christopher H Vane
Peter Wynn
Chris P Kendrick
Dirk Verschuren
F Alayne Street-Perrott
A1
Journal Article
in
RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY
2011
Distribution and faunal richness of Cladocera in western Uganda crater lakes
Bob Rumes
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
HYDROBIOLOGIA
2011
Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya
Bas van Geel
Vanessa Gelorini
Anna Lyaruu
Andre Aptroot
Stephen Rucina
Rob Marchant
Jaap S Sinninghe Sinninghe Damsté
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY
2011
Diversity and palaeoecological significance of non-pollen palynomorph assemblages in East African lake sediments
Vanessa Gelorini
Dirk Verschuren
Annemieke Verbeken
Dissertation
2011
High-resolution 14C dating of a 25,000-year lake-sediment record from equatorial East Africa
Maarten Blaauw
Bas van Geel
Iris Kristen
Birgit Plessen
Anna Lyaruu
Daniel R Engstrom
Johannes van der Plicht
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2011
Late Quaternary behavior of the East African monsoon and the importance of the Congo Air Boundary
Jessica E Tierney
James M Russell
Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
Yongsong Huang
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2011
Modern and early Holocene mollusc fauna of the Ounianga lakes (northern Chad): implications for the palaeohydrology of the central Sahara
Bert Van Bocxlaer
Dirk Verschuren
George Schettler
Stefan Kröpelin
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE
2011
Modern non-pollen palynomorphs from East African lake sediments
Vanessa Gelorini
Annemieke Verbeken
Bas van Geel
Christine Cocquyt
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY
2011
Ostracoda (Crustacea) as paleoenvironmental proxies for Late-Holocene climate variability in western Mongolia
Thijs Van der Meeren
Dirk Verschuren
Koenraad Martens
Dissertation
2011
Priority effects and species sorting in a long paleoecological record of repeated community assembly through time
Joachim Mergeay
Luc De Meester
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
ECOLOGY
2011
Reduced interannual rainfall variability in East Africa during the Last Ice Age
Christian Wolff
Gerald H Haug
Axel Timmermann
Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
Achim Brauer
Daniel M Sigman
Mark A Cane
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
SCIENCE
2011
Seasonality in equatorial climate over the past 25 k.y. revealed by oxygen isotope records from Mount Kilimanjaro
Philip A Barker
Elizabeth R Hurrell
Melanie J Leng
Christian Wolff
Christine Cocquyt
Hilary J Sloane
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
GEOLOGY
2011
Valve chemistry of Limnocythere inopinata (Ostracoda) in a cold arid environment: implications for paleolimnological interpretation
Thijs Van der Meeren
Emi Ito
Dirk Verschuren
James E Almendinger
Koenraad Martens
A1
Journal Article
in
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
2011
2010
Environmental controls on branched tetraether lipid distributions in tropical East African lake sediments
Jessica E Tierney
James M Russell
Hilde Eggermont
EC Hopmans
Dirk Verschuren
Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
A1
Journal Article
in
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
2010
Limnological and ecological sensitivity of Rwenzori mountain lakes to climate warming
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
Leen Audenaert
Luc Lens
James Russell
Gerrit Klaassen
Oliver Heiri
A1
Journal Article
in
HYDROBIOLOGIA
2010
Morphometric techniques allow environmental reconstructions from low-diversity continental ostracode assemblages
Thijs Van der Meeren
Dirk Verschuren
Emi Ito
Koenraad Martens
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2010
Observations on the limnology and phytoplankton community of crater Lake Kyaninga (Uganda), with special attention to its diatom flora
Christine Cocquyt
Pierre-Denis Plisnier
Vanessa Gelorini
Bob Rumes
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
PLANT ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
2010
Paleotemperature reconstruction in tropical Africa using fossil Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera)
Hilde Eggermont
Oliver Heiri
James Russell
Mathias Vuille
Leen Audenaert
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2010
Regional diversity, ecology and palaeoecology of aquatic invertebrate communities in East African lakes
Bob Rumes
Dirk Verschuren
Hilde Eggermont
Dissertation
2010
The seismic-stratigraphic record of lake-level fluctuations in Lake Challa: hydrological stability and change in equatorial East Africa over the last 140 kyr
Jasper Moernaut
Dirk Verschuren
François Charlet
Iris Kristen
Maureen Fagot
Marc De Batist
A1
Journal Article
in
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
2010
2009
Fluxes and distribution of tetraether lipids in an equatorial African lake: constraints on the application of the TEX86 palaeothermometer and BIT index in lacustrine settings
Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
Jort Ossebaar
Ben Abbas
Stefan Schouten
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
2009
Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African Equator
Dirk Verschuren
Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
Jasper Moernaut
Iris Kristen
Maarten Blaauw
Maureen Fagot
Gerald H Haug
the CHALLACEA project members
Marc De Batist
Hilde Eggermont
A1
Journal Article
in
NATURE
2009
Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African equator: Implications for Indian Ocean ITCZ migration over the past 25,000 years
Dirk Verschuren
JSS Damste
Jasper Moernaut
I Kristen
M Blaauw
Maureen Fagot
GH Haug
C3
Conference
2009
Human impacts, climate change, and aquatic ecosystem response during the past 2000 yr at Lake Wandakara, Uganda
James M Russell
SJ Mccoy
Dirk Verschuren
I Bessems
Y Huang
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY RESEARCH
2009
Paleolimnological records of recent glacier recession in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda-D. R. Congo
J Russell
Hilde Eggermont
R Taylor
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2009
Paleolimnology of African lakes: beyond the exploration phase
Dirk Verschuren
James M Russell
A4
Journal Article
in
PAGES NEWS
2009
2008
Altitudinal shifts in the branched tetraether lipid distribution in soil from Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania): Implications for the MBT/CBT continental palaeothermometer
Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté
Jort Ossebaar
Stefan Schouten
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
Organic Geochemistry
2008
Aquatic community response in a groundwater-fed desert lake to Holocene desiccation of the Sahara
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
Maureen Fagot
Bob Rumes
Bert Van Bocxlaer
Stefan Kroepelin
A1
Journal Article
in
Quaternary Science Reviews
2008
Climate-driven ecosystem succession in the Sahara: the past 6000 years
S Kröpelin
Dirk Verschuren
A-M Lézine
Hilde Eggermont
Christine Cocquyt
P Francus
J-P Cazet
Maureen Fagot
Bob Rumes
JM Russell
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
SCIENCE
2008
Distribution of living larval Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) along a depth transect at Kigoma Bay, Lake Tanganyika (East Africa): implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
Hilde Eggermont
David Kennedy
Stephen Hasiotis
Dirk Verschuren
A Cohen
A1
Journal Article
in
AFRICAN ENTOMOLOGY
2008
Latitudinal linkages in late Holocene moisture-balance variation
Dirk Verschuren
Dan J Charman
Bookchapter
in
Natural climate variability and global warming : a Holocene perspective
2008
Palaeolimnological evidence for widespread late 18th century drought across equatorial East Africa
Ilse Bessems
Dirk Verschuren
James M Russell
Jozef Hus
Florias Mees
Brian F Cumming
A1
Journal Article
in
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
2008
Response to comment on 'Climate-driven ecosystem succession in the Sahara: the past 6000 years'
Stefan Kröpelin
Dirk Verschuren
Anne-Marie Lézine
Editorial material
2008
2007
Climatic and hydrological instability in semi-arid equatorial East Africa during the late Glacial to Holocene transition: a multi-proxy reconstruction of aquatic ecosystem response in northern Tanzania
M Ryner
F Gasse
Bob Rumes
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
2007
Extinction, recolonization, and dispersal through time in a planktonic crustacean
Joachim Mergeay
Joost Vanoverbeke
Dirk Verschuren
Luc De Meester
A1
Journal Article
in
ECOLOGY
2007
Physical and chemical limnology of alpine lakes and pools in the Rwenzori Mountains (Uganda-DR Congo)
Hilde Eggermont
James M Russell
Georg Schettler
Kay Van Damme
Ilse Bessems
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
HYDROBIOLOGIA
2007
Sieve mesh size and quantitative chironomid paleoclimatology
Dirk Verschuren
Hilde Eggermont
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2007
Spatial complexity of 'Little Ice Age' climate in East Africa: sedimentary records from two crater lake basins in western Uganda
James M Russell
Dirk Verschuren
Hilde Eggermont
A1
Journal Article
in
HOLOCENE
2007
Spatial variability of chironomid death assemblages in the surface sediments of a fluctuating tropical lake (Lake Naivasha, Kenya)
Hilde Eggermont
Patrick De Deyne
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2007
Taxonomy and diversity of Afroalpine Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) on Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori mountains, East Africa
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
2007
2006
Chironomid records: Africa
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
Bookchapter
in
Encyclopedia of quaternary sciences
2006
Daphnia community analysis in shallow Kenyan lakes and ponds using dormant eggs in surface sediments
Joachim Mergeay
Steven Declerck
Dirk Verschuren
Luc De Meester
A1
Journal Article
in
FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
2006
Fossil Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) as quantitative indicators of past salinity in African lakes
Hilde Eggermont
Oliver Heiri
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2006
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
A1
Journal Article
in
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
2006
Quaternary paleoecology of aquatic Diptera in tropical and Southern Hemisphere regions, with special reference to the Chironomidae
Dirk Verschuren
Hilde Eggermont
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
2006
2005
Cryptic invasion and dispersal of an American Daphnia in East Africa
Joachim Mergeay
Dirk Verschuren
Luc De Meester
A1
Journal Article
in
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
2005
Daphnia species diversity in Kenya, and a key to the identification of their ephippia
Joachim Mergeay
Dirk Verschuren
Luc De Meester
A1
Journal Article
in
HYDROBIOLOGIA
2005
Developing Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) and other aquatic biota from Ruwenzori mountain lakes (Uganda) as temperature indicators for African climate reconstructions
Hilde Eggermont
Kay Van Damme
Dirk Verschuren
C3
Conference
2005
Odonata from the Ennedi and Ounianga regions of northern Chad, with a note of the status of Orthetrum kollmannspergeri Buchholz, and a checklist of species currently known from the Republic of Chad
Henri Dumont
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
ODONATOLOGICA
2005
Paleolimnological investigations of anthropogenic environmental change in Lake Tanganyika, I: an introduction to the project
Andrew S Cohen
Manuel R Palacios-Fest
James McGill
Peter W Swarzenski
Dirk Verschuren
Robert Sinyinza
Tharcisse Songori
Bombi Kakagozo
Mutanga Syampila
Catherine M O'Reilly
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2005
Representation of aquatic invertebrate communities in subfossil death assemblages sampled along a salinity gradient of western Uganda crater lakes
Bob Rumes
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
HYDROBIOLOGIA
2005
Taxonomic diversity and biogeography of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) in lakes of tropical West Africa using subfossil remains extracted from surface sediments
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
Henri Dumont
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
2005
2004
Decadal and century-scale climate variability in tropical Africa during the past 2000 years
Dirk Verschuren
P1
Conference
2004
Holocene climate variability in Europe and Africa: a PAGES-PEP III Time Stream 1 synthesis
Dirk Verschuren
Keith R Briffa
Philipp Hoelzmann
Keith Barber
Philip Barker
Louis Scott
Ian Snowball
Neil Roberts
Richard W Battarbee
P1
Conference
2004
Quantitative reconstruction of past salinity variations in African lakes: assessment of chironomid-based inference models (Insecta: Diptera) in space and time
Dirk Verschuren
Brian F Cumming
Kathleen R Laird
A1
Journal Article
in
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES
2004
Sub-fossil Chironomidae from East Africa, 1: Tanypodinae and Orthocladiinae
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2004
Sub-fossil Chironomidae from East Africa, 2: Chironominae (Chironomini and Tanytarsini)
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2004
Two hundred years of a diverse Daphnia community in Lake Naivasha (Kenya): effects of natural and human-induced environmental changes
Joachim Mergeay
Dirk Verschuren
Liesbeth Van Kerckhoven
Luc De Meester
A1
Journal Article
in
FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
2004
2003
Impact of soil erosion in disturbed tributary drainages on the benthic invertebrate fauna of Lake Tanganyika, East Africa
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
2003
Lake-based climate reconstruction in Africa: progress and challenges
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
HYDROBIOLOGIA
2003
Subfossil Chironomidae from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, 1: Tanypodinae and Orthocladiinae
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2003
Subfossil Chironomidae from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, 2: Chironominae (Chironomini and Tanytarsini)
Hilde Eggermont
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2003
The heat on Lake Tanganyika
Dirk Verschuren
Editorial material
2003
Vegetation response to rainfall variation and human impact in central Kenya during the past 1100 years
Henry Lamb
Iain Darbyshire
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
HOLOCENE
2003
2002
Environmental changes in a tropical lake (Lake Abiyata, Ethiopia) during recent centuries
Dagnachew Legesse
F Gasse
O Radakovitch
C Vallet-Coulomb
R Bonnefille
Dirk Verschuren
E Gibert
P Barker
A1
Journal Article
in
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
2002
History and timing of human impact on Lake Victoria, East Africa
Dirk Verschuren
Thomas C Johnson
Hedy J Kling
David N Edgington
Peter R Leavitt
Erik T Brown
Michael R Talbot
Robert E Hecky
A1
Journal Article
in
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
2002
2001
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
Dirk Verschuren
F Volckaert
A1
Journal Article
in
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
2001
Reconstructing fluctuations of a shallow East African lake during the past 1800 yrs from sediment stratigraphy in a submerged crater basin
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
2001
2000
Effects of depth, salinity, and substrate on the invertebrate community of a fluctuating tropical lake
Dirk Verschuren
John Tibby
Koen Sabbe
Neil Roberts
A1
Journal Article
in
ECOLOGY
2000
Rainfall and drought in equatorial east Africa during the past 1,100 years
Dirk Verschuren
Kathleen R Laird
Brian F Cumming
A1
Journal Article
in
NATURE
2000
1999
Influence of depth and mixing regime on sedimentation in a small, fluctuating tropical soda lake
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
1999
Long-term dynamics of algal and invertebrate communities in a small, fluctuating tropical soda lake
Dirk Verschuren
Christine Cocquyt
John Tibby
C Neil Roberts
Peter R Leavitt
A1
Journal Article
in
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
1999
Sedimentation controls on the preservation and time resolution of climate-proxy records from shallow fluctuating lakes
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
1999
The environmental history of a climate-sensitive lake in the former 'White Highlands' of central Kenya
Dirk Verschuren
John Tibby
Peter R Leavitt
C Neil Roberts
A1
Journal Article
in
AMBIO
1999
1998
Biogenic silica profiles in holocene cores from Lake Victoria : implications for lake level history and initiation of the Victoria Nile
TC Johnson
Y Chan
K Beuning
K Kelts
G Ngobi
Dirk Verschuren
Bookchapter
in
Environmental change and response in East African Lakes
1998
Silica depletion in Lake Victoria: sedimentary signals at offshore stations
Dirk Verschuren
David N Edgington
Hedy J Kling
Thomas C Johnson
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH
1998
1997
Fossil zooplankton and the historical status of westslope cutthroat trout in a headwater lake of Glacier National Park, Montana
Dirk Verschuren
Leo F Marnell
A1
Journal Article
in
TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY
1997
1993
A lightweight extruder for accurate sectioning of soft-bottom lake sediment cores in the field
Dirk Verschuren
A1
Journal Article
in
LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
1993
1988
The demanian system, traumatic insemination and reproductive strategy in Oncholaimus oxyuris Ditlevsen (Nematoda, Oncholaimina)
August Coomans
Dirk Verschuren
Rudy Vanderhaeghen
A1
Journal Article
in
ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA
1988