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Aridity promotes bet hedging via delayed hatching: a case study with two temporary pond crustaceans along a latitudinal gradient
Pinceel, Tom; Brendonck, Luc; Vanschoenwinkel, Bram; Hawinkel, Wouter; Tuytens, Karen (Springer, 2017)Climate change does affect not only average rainfall and temperature but also their variation, which can reduce the predictability of suitable conditions for growth and reproduction. This situation is problematic for ... -
Climate change jeopardizes the persistence of freshwater zooplankton by reducing both habitat suitability and demographic resilience
Pinceel, Tom; Brendonck, Luc; Buschke, Falko; Weckx, Margo; Vanschoenwinkel, Bram (BioMed Central, 2018)Background: Higher temperatures and increased environmental variability under climate change could jeopardize the persistence of species. Organisms that rely on short windows of rainfall to complete their life-cycles, ... -
Deeper knowledge of shallow waters: reviewing the invertebrate fauna of southern African temporary wetlands
Bird, Matthew S.; Brendonck, Luc; Mlambo, Musa C.; Wasserman, Ryan J.; Dalu, T. (Springer, 2019)Temporary lentic wetlands are becoming increasingly recognised for their collective role in contributing to biodiversity at the landscape scale. In southern Africa, a region with a high density of such wetlands, information ... -
Dormancy and dispersal as mediators of zooplankton population and community dynamics along a hydrological disturbance gradient in inland temporary pools
Brendonck, Luc; Pinceel, Tom; Ortells, Raquel (Springer, 2017)At some stage in their life cycle, most zooplankton in temporary waters produce dormant eggs that assemble in a persistent egg bank to cope with unfavourable conditions. As part of a risk-spreading strategy, only a fraction ... -
Habitat uncertainty explains variation in offspring provisioning strategies in a temporary pond crustacean
Pinceel, Tom; Brendonck, Luc; Hawinkel, Wouter; Wynants, Enya; Vanschoenwinkel, Bram (Springer, 2017)In temporally variable environments producing offspring with variable phenotypes can help parents to buffer against different future environmental conditions. Freshwater zooplankton can produce clutches with eggs of different ... -
High genetic variation and phylogeographic relations among Palearctic fairy shrimp populations reflect persistence in multiple southern refugia during Pleistocene ice ages and postglacial colonisation
Lukić, Dunja; Brendonck, Luc; Waterkeyn, Aline; Rabet, Nicolas; Mioduchowska, Monika (Wiley, 2019)Intense anthropogenic disturbance threatens temporary pond ecosystems and their associated fauna across the Palearctic. Since fairy shrimps (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) are endemic to temporary ponds, populations are declining ... -
Impact of irrigation based sugarcane cultivation on the Chiredzi and Runde Rivers quality, Zimbabwe
Nhiwatiwa, Tamuka; Brendonck, Luc; Dalu, Tatenda (Elsevier, 2017)Agriculture is vital in sustaining human livelihoods. However, agriculture as it is currently practiced, is contributing to the degradation of freshwater ecosystems globally. We investigated impacts of irrigation return ... -
Improving the reliability and ecological validity of pharmaceutical risk assessment: Turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) as a model in behavioral ecotoxicology
Thoré, Eli S.J.; Brendonck, Luc; Steenaerts, Laure; Philippe, Charlotte; Grégoir, Arnout F. (Wiley, 2019)Pharmaceuticals are essential for human well-being, but their increasing and continuous use pollutes the environment. Although behavioral ecotoxicology is increasingly advocated to assess the effects of pharmaceutical ... -
Individual behavioral variation reflects personality divergence in the upcoming model organism Nothobranchius furzeri
Thoré, Elis S.J.; Brendonck, Luc; Steenaerts, Laure; Philippe, Charlotte; Grégoir, Arnout (Wiley, 2018)In the animal kingdom, behavioral variation among individuals has often been reported. However, stable among‐individual differences along a behavioral continuum—reflective of personality variation—have only recently become ... -
Lateral hydrological connectivity differentially affects the community characteristics of multiple groups of aquatic invertebrates in tropical wetland pans in South Africa
Dube, Trevor; De Necker, Lizaan; Wepener, Victor; Brendonck, Luc; Pinceel, Tom (Wiley, 2019)River–floodplain connectivity (i.e. lateral hydrological connectivity, LHC) can directly affect the community characteristics by promoting dispersal of organisms but can also have profound indirect effects by altering local ... -
Livestock disturbances in Mediterranean temporary ponds: a mesocosm experiment with sheep manure and simulated trampling
Van den Broeck, Maarten; Brendonck, Luc; Rhazi, Laila; Waterkeyn, Aline; El Madihi, Mohammed (Wiley, 2019)The number and quality of temporary wetlands are declining worldwide and many of the remaining habitats are used as pastures and drinking sites for livestock. Livestock can impact wetlands through a combination of herbivory ... -
Monophyly of the species of Hepatozoon (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) parasitizing (African) anurans, with the description of three new species from hyperoliid frogs in South Africa
Netherlands, Edward C.; Cook, Courtney A.; Du Preez, Louis H.; Brendonck, Luc; Smit, Nico J. (Cambridge Univ Press, 2018)Haemogregarines (Apicomplexa: Adeleiorina) are a diverse group of haemoparasites reported from almost all vertebrate classes. The most commonly recorded haemogregarines to parasitize anurans are species of Hepatozoon ... -
Population-, sex- and individual level divergence in life-history and activity patterns in an annual killifish
Thore, Eli S.J.; Brendonck, Luc; Gregoir, Arnout F.; Adriaenssens, Bart; Philippe, Charlotte (PeerJ, 2019)Variation in life-history strategies along a slow-fast continuum is largely governed by life-history trade-offs. The pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis (POLS) expands on this idea and suggests coevolution of these traits ... -
Protocol for acute and chronic ecotoxicity testing of the turquoise killifish Nothobranchius furzeri
Philippe, Charlotte; Brendonck, Luc; Gregoir, Arnoit F.; Thoré, Eli S.J.; De Boeck, Gudrun (JoVE, 2018)The killifish Nothobranchius furzeri is an emerging model organism in the field of ecotoxicology and its applicability in acute and chronic ecotoxicity testing has been demonstrated. Overall, the sensitivity of the species ... -
Spatial and temporal variation of invertebrate community structure in flood-controlled tropical floodplain wetlands
Dubea, Trevor; DeNecker, Lizan; Wepener, Victor; Smit, Nico J.; Brendonck, Luc; Van Vuren, Johan H.J. (Taylor & Francis, 2017)The Phongolo floodplain in South Africa is a unique system because of its biodiversity and socio-economic value. The spatial and temporal changes of invertebrate communities of the downstream floodplain influenced by ... -
Squeezing out the last egg: annual fish increase reproductive efforts in response to a predation threat
Grégoir, Arnout Francis; Brendonck, Luc; Thoré, Eli Samuel Joachim; Philippe, Charlotte; Pinceel, Tom (Wiley, 2018)Both constitutive and inducible antipredator strategies are ubiquitous in nature and serve to maximize fitness under a predation threat. Inducible strategies may be favored over constitutive defenses depending on their ... -
Understanding factors structuring zooplankton and macroinvertebrate assemblages in ephemeral pans
Nhiwatiwa, Tamuka; Brendonck, Luc; Dalu, Tatenda (Elsevier, 2017)Ephemeral aquatic ecosystems have a global distribution being most abundant in semi-arid and arid regions. Due to anthropogenic impacts threatening these environments, there is a need to understand various factors and ...