Project

The relationships between biodiversity and pesticides in metacommunities.

Code
3F007514
Duration
01 October 2014 → 30 September 2018
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Ecology
    • Environmental science and management
    • Other environmental sciences
Keywords
Biodiversity pesticides
 
Project description

The research consists of two approaches. For the experimental approach, the effects of pesticides on biodiversity and biomass production is investigated, using metacommunities of diatomic algae. For example, toxicant concentrations, dispersal velocity and direction and topography are varied. For the second approach, a model is developed to define the dynamics of a metacommunity.