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Eng. van Oevelen, Dick
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Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee; Estuarine and Delta Systems (EDS), more Function: Post-doctoral researcher Direct contact at institute: Tel.: +31-(0)113-57 74 89 E-mail:

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Higher trophic levels in the Southern North Sea, more PhD: Understanding the (a)biotic consequences of biogenic reef (re)introductions in the southern North Sea: a modelling approach, more

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Bogards R., Moodley L., Van Oevelen D., Soetaert K. 2003: Natural stable isotopes in the primary producents of the pelagic and the benthic heterotrophic cycle. Netherlands Institute of Ecology; Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, Netherlands. Metadata available at http://mda.nioo.knaw.nl/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=62, more Ollevier, A.; Meire, L.; Bladfort, D.; Develter, R.; Möller, K.O.; Planken, K.; Ponsoni, L.; Schulz, K.; van Oevelen, D.; Boone, W.; Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ); Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ); Helmholtz-Zentrum (Hereon); University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin); (2023): Data from IOPD cruise Part 1 Physical and imaging data. Marine Data Archive., more Pint, S.; Lorré, D.; Stevens, M.; De Troch, M.; van Oevelen, D.; Heymans, S.; Musimwa, R.; Everaert, G.; Flanders Marine Institute; Ghent University; Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research; European Marine Board; (2026): Historical dynamics of the Southern Bight of the North Sea (1991–2023): A modelling approach: Data. Marine Data Archive., more Van Oevelen D., Soetaert K. 2002: Transfer of bacterial carbon to the benthic fauna. Netherlands Institute of Ecology; Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, Netherlands. Metadata available at http://mda.nioo.knaw.nl/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=1167, more DIPP: Veuger and Van Oevelen, 2156: Data from Dual Isotope labeling at Paulina Polder. etherlands Institute of Ecology; Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, Netherlands. Metadata available at http://mda.nioo.knaw.nl/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=2156, more van Oevelen D.; Soetaert K.; Netherlands Institute of Ecology; Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology; Department Ecosystem Studies (NIOZ-YES): Netherlands; (2003): Budget., more
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Pint, S.; Stevens, M.; De Troch, M.; van Oevelen, D.; Heymans, J.J.; Everaert, G.; Flanders Marine Institute; Ghent University; Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research; University of the Highlands and Islands; (2024): Data - Ecopath model of the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Marine Data Archive., more

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Cabrera-Lamanna, L.; Marquina-Luevano, I.; Visser, E.J.W.; van Oevelen, D.; Lorke, A.; Kosten, S. (2025). Rooted macrophytes reduce sediment CH ₄ storage and net production: An experimental approach using a novel scanning method. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 11(1): e70073. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lol2.70073, more De Borger, E.; van Oevelen, D.; Mavraki, N.; De Backer, A.; Braeckman, U.; Soetaert, K.; Vanaverbeke, J. (2025). Offshore wind farms modify coastal food web dynamics by enhancing suspension feeder pathways. Commun. Earth Environ. 6(1): 330. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02253-w, more Khojah, B.; Sadeghi, S.; Polerecky, L.; Middelburg, J.J.; Van Oevelen, D.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Behrends, T (2025). Exploring carbon dynamics in a slow sand filter using stable isotopes. Wat. Res. 276: 123249. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.123249, more Khojah, B.; Sadeghi, S.; Polerecky, L.; Middelburg, J.; Van Oevelen, D.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Behrends, T (2025). Organic carbon uptake and mineralization in slow sand filters and their relation to process variables. Journal of Water Process Engineering 77: 108396. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2025.108396, more Vad, J.; Cleland, J.; De Clippele, L.H.; de Froe, E.; Kazanidis, G.; Blackbird, S.; van Oevelen, D.; Head, E.; Yashayaev, I.; Kenchington, E.; de Moura Neves, B.; Edinger, E.; Côté, D.; Roberts, J.M. (2025). Drivers of coral and sponge community composition and size structure revealed with cumulative abundance profiles. Mar. Ecol. (Berl.) 46(5): e70030. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maec.70030, more Braeckman, U.; Soetaert, K.; Pasotti, F.; Quartino, M.L.; Vanreusel, A.; Saravia, L.A.; Schloss, I.R.; van Oevelen, D. (2024). Glacial melt impacts carbon flows in an Antarctic benthic food web. Front. Mar. Sci. 11: 1359597. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1359597, more de Froe, E.; Yashayaev, I.; Mohn, C.; Vad, J.; Mienis, F.; Duineveld, G.; Kenchington, E.; Head, E.; Ross, S.W.; Blackbird, S.; Wolff, G.A.; Roberts, J.M.; MacDonald, B.; Tulloch, G.; van Oevelen, D. (2024). Characterizing regional oceanography and bottom environmental conditions at two contrasting sponge grounds on the northern Labrador Shelf. Biogeosciences 21(23): 5407-5433. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-5407-2024, more Pint, S.; Stevens, M.; Musimwa, R.; Standaert, W.; De Troch, M.; van Oevelen, D.; Heymans, J.J.; Everaert, G. (2024). A food web model of the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Ocean Coast. Manag. 255: 107256. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107256, more Stuart-Lee, A.E.; Møller, E.F.; Winding, M.H.S.; van Oevelen, D.; Hendry, K.R.; Meire, L. (2024). Contrasting copepod community composition in two Greenland fjords with different glacier types. J. Plankton Res. 46(6): 619-632. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbae060, more van der Kaaden, A.-S.; Maier, S.R.; Chen, S.; De Clippele, L.H.; de Froe, E.; Gerkema, T.; van de Koppel, J.; Mienis, F.; Mohn, C.; Rietkerk, M.; Soetaert, K.; van Oevelen, D. (2024). Building your own mountain: the effects, limits, and drawbacks of cold-water coral ecosystem engineering. Biogeosciences 21(4): 973-992. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-973-2024, more van der Kaaden, A.-S.; van Oevelen, D.; Mohn, C.; Soetaert, K.; Rietkerk, M.; van de Koppel, J.; Gerkema, T. (2024). Resemblance of the global depth distribution of internal-tide generation and cold-water coral occurrences. Ocean Science Journal 20(2): 569-587. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-20-569-2024, more Cecchetto, M.M.; Moser, A.; Smith, C.R.; van Oevelen, D.; Sweetman, A.K. (2023). Abyssal seafloor response to fresh phytodetrital input in three areas of particular environmental interest (APEIs) in the western clarion-clipperton zone (CCZ). Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 195: 103970. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2023.103970, more Horn, H.G.; van Rijswijk, P.; Soetaert, K.; van Oevelen, D. (2023). Drivers of spatial and temporal micro- and mesozooplankton dynamics in an estuary under strong anthropogenic influences (The Eastern Scheldt, Netherlands). J. Sea Res. 192: 102357. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2023.102357, more Maier, S.R.; Brooke, S.; De Clippele, L.H.; de Froe, E.; van der Kaaden, A.-S.; Kutti, T.; Mienis, F.; van Oevelen, D. (2023). On the paradox of thriving cold‐water coral reefs in the food‐limited deep sea. Biol. Rev. 98(5): 1768-1795. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12976, more Mohn, C.; Hansen, J.L.S.; Carreiro-Silva, M.; Cunningham, S.A.; de Froe, E.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Gary, S.F.; Glud, R.N.; Göke, C.; Johnson, C.; Morato, T.; Friis Møller, E.; Rovelli, L.; Schulz, K.; Soetaert, K.; van der Kaaden, A.-S.; van Oevelen, D. (2023). Tidal to decadal scale hydrodynamics at two contrasting cold-water coral sites in the Northeast Atlantic. Prog. Oceanogr. 214: 103031. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103031, more Rios-Yunes, D.; Grandjean, T.; di Primio, A.; Tiano, J.; Bouma, T.J.; van Oevelen, D.; Soetaert, K. (2023). Sediment resuspension enhances nutrient exchange in intertidal mudflats. Front. Mar. Sci. 10: 1155386. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1155386, more Rios-Yunes, D.; Tiano, J.C.; van Oevelen, D.; van Dalen, J.; Soetaert, K. (2023). Annual biogeochemical cycling in intertidal sediments of a restored estuary reveals dependence of N, P, C and Si cycles to temperature and water column properties. Est., Coast. and Shelf Sci. 282: 108227. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108227, more Rios-Yunes, D.; Tiano, J.C.; van Rijswijk, P.; De Borger, E.; van Oevelen, D.; Soetaert, K. (2023). Long-term changes in ecosystem functioning of a coastal bay expected from a shifting balance between intertidal and subtidal habitats. Cont. Shelf Res. 254: 104904. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2022.104904, more Stratmann, T.; van Breugel, P.; Sweetman, A.K.; Van Oevelen, D. (2023). Deconvolving feeding niches and strategies of abyssal holothurians from their stable isotope, amino acid, and fatty acid composition. Mar. Biodiv. 53(6). https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-023-01389-2, more van der Kaaden, A.-S.; Maier, S.R.; Siteur, K.; De Clippele, L.H.; van de Koppel, J.; Purkis, S.J.; Rietkerk, M.; Soetaert, K.; van Oevelen, D. (2023). Tiger reefs: Self‐organized regular patterns in deep‐sea cold‐water coral reefs. Ecosphere 14(10). https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4654, more van Hoytema, N.; de Goeij, J.M.; Kornder, N.A.; El-Khaled, Y.; van Oevelen, D.; Rix, L.; Cardini, U.; Bednarz, V.N.; Naumann, M.S.; Al-Horani, F.A.; Wild, C. (2023). A carbon cycling model shows strong control of seasonality and importance of sponges on the functioning of a northern Red Sea coral reef. Coral Reefs 42: 367-381. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-022-02339-3, more Baussant, T.; Arnberg, M.; Lyng, E.; Ramanand, S.; Bamber, S.; Berry, M.; Myrnes Hansen, I.; van Oevelen, D.; van Breugel, P. (2022). Identification of tolerance levels on the cold-water coral Desmophyllum pertusum (Lophelia pertusa) from realistic exposure conditions to suspended bentonite, barite and drill cutting particles. PLoS One 17(2): e0263061. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263061, more de Froe, E.; Maier, S.R.; Horn, H.G.; Wolff, G.A.; Blackbird, S.; Mohn, C.; Schultz, M.; van der Kaaden, A.-S.; Cheng, C.; Wubben, E.; van Haastregt, B.; Møller, E.F.; Lavaleye, M.; Soetaert, K.; Reichart, G.-J.; van Oevelen, D. (2022). Hydrography and food distribution during a tidal cycle above a cold-water coral mound. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 189: 103854. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103854, more Russell, D.G.; Kessler, A.J.; Wong, W.W.; van Oevelen, D.; Cook, P.L.M. (2022). Constraining nitrogen sources to a seagrass-dominated coastal embayment by using an isotope mass balance approach. Mar. Freshw. Res. 73(5): 703-709. https://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf21320, more de Kluijver, A.; Bart, M.C.; van Oevelen, D.; de Goeij, J.M.; Leys, S.P.; Maier, S.R.; Maldonado, M.; Soetaert, K.; Verbiest, S.; Middelburg, J.J. (2021). An integrative model of carbon and nitrogen metabolism in a common deep-sea sponge (Geodia barretti). Front. Mar. Sci. 7: 596251. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.596251, more Maier, S.R.; Mienis, F.; de Froe, E.; Soetaert, K.; Lavaleye, M.; Duineveld, G.C.A.; Beauchard, O.; van der Kaaden, A.-S.; Koch, B.P.; van Oevelen, D. (2021). Reef communities associated with ‘dead’ cold-water coral framework drive resource retention and recycling in the deep sea. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 175: 103574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103574, more Rakka, M.; Maier, S.R.; Van Oevelen, D.; Godinho, A.; Bilan, M.; Orejas, C.; Carreiro-Silva, M. (2021). Contrasting metabolic strategies of two co-occurring deep-sea octocorals. NPG Scientific Reports 11(1): 10633. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1038/s41598-021-90134-5, more Stratmann, T.; Soetaert, K.; Kersken, D.; van Oevelen, D. (2021). Polymetallic nodules are essential for food-web integrity of a prospective deep-seabed mining area in Pacific abyssal plains. NPG Scientific Reports 11(1): 12238. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91703-4, more Tiano, J.C.; De Borger, E.; O'Flynn, S.; Cheng, C.; van Oevelen, D.; Soetaert, K. (2021). Physical and electrical disturbance experiments uncover potential bottom fishing impacts on benthic ecosystem functioning. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 545: 151628. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2021.151628, more van der Kaaden, A.-S.; Mohn, C.; Gerkema, T.; Maier, S.R.; de Froe, E.; van de Koppel, J.; Rietkerk, M.; Soetaert, K.; van Oevelen, D. (2021). Feedbacks between hydrodynamics and cold-water coral mound development. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 178: 103641. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103641, more Vonnahme, T.R.; Leroy, M.; Thoms, S.; van Oevelen, D.; Harvey, H.R.; Kristiansen, S.; Gradinger, R.; Dietrich, U.; Völker, C. (2021). Modeling silicate–nitrate–ammonium co-limitation of algal growth and the importance of bacterial remineralization based on an experimental Arctic coastal spring bloom culture study. Biogeosciences 18(5): 1719-1747. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-1719-2021, more Daggers, T.D.; van Oevelen, D.; Herman, P.M.J.; Boschker, H.T.S.; van der Wal, D. (2020). Spatial variability in macrofaunal diet composition and grazing pressure on microphytobenthos in intertidal areas. Limnol. Oceanogr. 65(11): 2819-2834. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.11554, more de Jonge, D.S.W.; Stratmann, T.; Lins, L.; Vanreusel, A.; Purser, A.; Marcon, Y.; Rodrigues, C.F.; Ravara, A.; Esquete, P.; Cunha, M.R.; Simon-Lledó, E.; van Breugel, P.; Sweetman, A.K.; Soetaert, K.; van Oevelen, D. (2020). Abyssal food-web model indicates faunal carbon flow recovery and impaired microbial loop 26 years after a sediment disturbance experiment. Prog. Oceanogr. 189: 102446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102446, more Kazanidis, G.; Orejas, C.; Borja, A.; Kenchington, E.; Henry, L.-A.; Callery, O.; Carreiro-Silva, M.; Egilsdottir, H.; Giacomello, E.; Grehan, A.; Menot, L.; Morato, T.; Ragnarsson, S.A.; Rueda, J.L.; Stirling, D.; Stratmann, T.; van Oevelen, D.; Palialexis, A.; Johnson, D.; Roberts, J.M. (2020). Assessing the environmental status of selected North Atlantic deep-sea ecosystems. Ecol. Indic. 119: 106624. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106624, more Maier, S.R.; Kutti, T.; Bannister, R.J.; Fang, J.K.-H.; van Breugel, P.; van Rijswijk, P.; van Oevelen, D. (2020). Recycling pathways in cold-water coral reefs: Use of dissolved organic matter and bacteria by key suspension feeding taxa. NPG Scientific Reports 10(1): 13 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-66463-2, more Maier, S.R.; Bannister, R.J.; van Oevelen, D.; Kutti, T. (2020). Seasonal controls on the diet, metabolic activity, tissue reserves and growth of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa. Coral Reefs 39: 173-187. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-019-01886-6, more Morato, T.; González‐Irusta, J.-M.; Dominguez‐Carrió, C.; Wei, C.-L.; Davies, A.; Sweetman, A.K.; Taranto, G.H.; Beazley, L.; García‐Alegre, A.; Grehan, A.; Laffargue, P.; Murillo, F.J.; Sacau, M.; Vaz, S.; Kenchington, E.; Arnaud‐Haond, S.; Callery, O.; Chimienti, G.; Cordes, E.; Egilsdottir, H.; Freiwald, A.; Gasbarro, R.; Gutiérrez‐Zárate, C.; Gianni, M.; Gilkinson, K.; Wareham Hayes, V.E.; Hebbeln, D.; Hedges, K.; Henry, L.‐A.; Johnson, D.; Koen‐Alonso, M.; Lirette, C.; Mastrototaro, F.; Menot, L.; Molodtsova, T.; Durán Muñoz, P.; Orejas, C.; Pennino, M.G.; Puerta, P.; Ragnarsson, S.Á.; Ramiro‐Sánchez, B.; Rice, J.; Rivera, J.; Roberts, J.M.; Ross, S.W.; Rueda, J.L.; Sampaio, Í.; Snelgrove, P.; Stirling, D.; Treble, M.A.; Urra, J.; Vad, J.; van Oevelen, D.; Watling, L.; Walkusz, W.; Wienberg, C.; Woillez, M.; Levin, L.A.; Carreiro‐Silva, M. (2020). Climate‐induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold‐water corals and commercially important deep‐sea fishes in the North Atlantic. Glob. Chang. Biol. 26(4): 2181-2202. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14996, more Rakka, M.; Orejas, C.; Maier, S.R.; van Oevelen, D.; Godinho, A.; Bilan, M.; Carreiro-Silva, M. (2020). Feeding biology of a habitat-forming antipatharian in the Azores Archipelago. Coral Reefs 39(5): 1469-1482. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01980-0, more Rix, L.; Ribes, M.; Coma, R.; Jahn, M.T.; de Goeij, J.M.; van Oevelen, D.; Escrig; Meibom, A.; Hentschel, U. (2020). Heterotrophy in the earliest gut: a single-cell view of heterotrophic carbon and nitrogen assimilation in sponge-microbe symbioses. ISME J. 14(10): 2554-2567. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-0706-3, more Schulz, K.; Soetaert, K.; Mohn, C.; Korte, L.F.; Mienis, F.; Duineveld, G.C.A.; van Oevelen, D. (2020). Linking large-scale circulation patterns to the distribution of cold water corals along the eastern Rockall Bank (northeast Atlantic). J. Mar. Syst. 212: 103456. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2020.103456, more Stratmann, T.; van Oevelen, D.; Martinez Arbizu, P.; Wei, C.L.; Liao, J.-X.; Cusson, M.; Scrosati, R.; Archambault, P.; Snelgrove, P.; Ramey-Balci, P.; Burd, B.J.; Kenchington, E.; Belley, R.; Soetaert, K. (2020). The BenBioDen database, a global database for meio-, macro- and megabenthic biomass and densities. Scientific Data 7: 206. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0551-2, more van der Kaaden, A.-S.; van Oevelen, D.; Rietkerk, M.; Soetaert, K.; van de Koppel, J. (2020). Spatial self-organization as a new perspective on cold-water coral mound development. Front. Mar. Sci. 7: article 631. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00631, more van Duyl, F.C.; Lengger, S.K.; Schouten, S.; Lundälv, T.; van Oevelen, D.; Müller, C.E. (2020). Dark CO₂ fixation into phospholipid-derived fatty acids by the cold-water coral associated sponge Hymedesmia (Stylopus) coriacea (Tisler Reef, NE Skagerrak). Mar. Biol. Res. 16(1): 1-17. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2019.1704019, more Bart, M.C.; de Vet, S.J.; de Bakker, D.M.; Alexander, B.E.; Van Oevelen, D.; van Loon, E.E.; van Loon, J.W.A.; de Goeij, J.M. (2019). Spiculous skeleton formation in the freshwater sponge Ephydatia fluviatilis under hypergravity conditions. PeerJ 6: 6055. https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6055, more de Froe; Rovelli; Glud, R.N.; Maier, S.R.; Duineveld, G.; Mienis, F.; Lavaleye, M.; van Oevelen, D. (2019). Benthic oxygen and nitrogen exchange on a cold-water coral reef in the North-East Atlantic Ocean. Front. Mar. Sci. 6. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00665, more Johnson, D.E.; Barrio Froján, C.; Neat, F.; van Oevelen, D.; Stirling, D.; Gubbins, M.J.; Roberts, J.M. (2019). Rockall and Hatton: Resolving a super wicked marine governance problem in the High Seas of the northeast Atlantic Ocean. Front. Mar. Sci. 6: 69. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00069, more Maier, S.R.; Kutti, T.; Bannister, R.J.; van Breugel, P.; van Rijswijk, P.; van Oevelen, D. (2019). Survival under conditions of variable food availability: Resource utilization and storage in the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa. Limnol. Oceanogr. 64(4): 1651-1671. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.11142, more Mienis, F.; Bouma, T.J.; Witbaard, R.; van Oevelen, D.; Duineveld, G.C.A. (2019). Experimental assessment of the effects of coldwater coral patches on water flow. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 609: 101-117. https://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps12815, more Schratzberger, M.; Holterman; van Oevelen, D.; Helder, J. (2019). A worm's world: Ecological flexibility pays off for free-living nematodes in sediments and soils. BioScience 69(11): 867-876. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz086, more Stratmann, T.; Soetaert, K.; Wei, C.L.; Lin, Y.-S.; Van Oevelen, D. (2019). The SCOC database, a large, open, and global database with sediment community oxygen consumption rates. Scientific Data 6: article number: 242. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0259-3, more Sweetman, A.K.; Smith, C.R.; Shulse, C.N.; Maillot, B.; Lindh, M.; Church, M.J.; Meyer, K.S.; van Oevelen, D.; Stratmann, T.; Gooday, A.J. (2019). Key role of bacteria in the short-term cycling of carbon at the abyssal seafloor in a low particulate organic carbon flux region of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Limnol. Oceanogr. 64(2): 694-713. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.11069, more Tiano, J.C.; Witbaard, R.; Bergman, M.J.N.; van Rijswijk, P.; Tramper, A.; Van Oevelen, D.; Soetaert, K. (2019). Acute impacts of bottom trawl gears on benthic metabolism and nutrient cycling. ICES J. Mar. Sci./J. Cons. int. Explor. Mer 76(6): 1917–1930. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz060, more van Engeland, T.; Godø, O.R.; Johnsen, E.; Duineveld, G.C.A.; van Oevelen, D. (2019). Cabled ocean observatory data reveal food supply mechanisms to a cold-water coral reef. Prog. Oceanogr. 172: 51-64. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.01.007, more Brown, A.; Hauton, C.; Stratmann, T.; Sweetman, A.; Van Oevelen, D.; Jones, D.O.B. (2018). Metabolic rates are significantly lower in abyssal Holothuroidea than in shallow-water Holothuroidea. Royal Society Open Science 5: 172162. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172162 , more Husson, B.; Sarrazin, J.; van Oevelen, D.; Sarradin, P.-M.; Soetaert, K.; Menesguen, A. (2018). Modelling the interactions of the hydrothermal mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus with vent fluid. Ecol. Model. 377: 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.03.007, more Kazanidis, G.; Van Oevelen, D.; Veuger, B.; Witte, U.F.M. (2018). Unravelling the versatile feeding and metabolic strategies of the cold-water ecosystem engineer Spongosorites coralliophaga (Stephens, 1915). Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 141: 71-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.07.009, more Rix, L.; de Goeij, J.M.; Van Oevelen, D.; Struck, U.; Al-Horani, F.A.; Wild, C.; Naumann, M.S. (2018). Reef sponges facilitate the transfer of coral-derived organic matter to their associated fauna via the sponge loop. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 589: 85-96. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12443, more Stratmann, T.; Lins, L.; Purser, A.; Rodrigues, C.F.; Ravara, A.; Cunha, M.R.; Simon-Lledó, E.; Jones, D.O.B.; Sweetman, A.K.; Köser, K.; Van Oevelen, D. (2018). Abyssal plain faunal carbon flows remain depressed 26 years after a simulated deep-sea mining disturbance. 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Direct visualization of mucus production by the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa with digital holographic microscopy. PLoS One 11(2): e0146766. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146766, more Cathalot, C.; Van Oevelen, D.; Cox, T.; Kutti, T.; Lavaleye, M.S.S.; Duineveld, G.C.A.; Meysman, F.J.R. (2015). Cold-water coral reefs and adjacent sponge grounds: hotspots of benthic respiration and organic carbon cycling in the deep sea. Front. Mar. Sci. 2: 12 pp. dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2015.00037, more Kędra, M.; Moritz, C.; Choy, E.S.; David, C.; Degen, R.; Duerksen, S.; Ellingsen, I.; Górska, B.; Grebmeier, J.M.; Kirievskaya, D.; van Oevelen, D.; Piwosz, K.; Samuelsen, A.; We? slawski, J.M. (2015). Status and trends in the structure of Arctic benthic food webs. Pol. Res. 34: 23775. dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v34.23775, more Middelburg, J.J.; Mueller, C.E.; Veuger, B.; Larsson, A.I.; Form, A.; van Oevelen, D. (2015). Discovery of symbiotic nitrogen fixation and chemoautotrophy in cold-water corals. NPG Scientific Reports 5(17962): 9 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep17962, more Gillis, L.G.; Ziegler, A.D.; van Oevelen, D.; Cathalot, C.; Herman, P.; Wolters, J.W.; Bouma, T.J. (2014). Tiny is mighty: seagrass beds have a large role in the export of organic material in the tropical coastal zone. PLoS One 9(11): e111847. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111847, more Kunihiro, T.; Veuger, B.; Vasquez Cardenas, D.; Pozzato, L.; Le Guitton, M.; Moriya, K.; Kuwae, M.; Omori, K.; Boschker, H.T.S.; Van Oevelen, D. (2014). Phospholipid-Derived Fatty Acids and Quinones as Markers for Bacterial Biomass and Community Structure in Marine Sediments. PLoS One 9(4): e96219. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096219, more Mueller, C.E.; Larsson, A.I.; Veuger, B.; Middelburg, J.J.; van Oevelen, D. (2014). Opportunistic feeding on various organic food sources by the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa. Biogeosciences 11(1): 123-133. dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-123-2014, more Adams Krumins, J.; van Oevelen, D.; Bezemer, T.M.; de Deyn, G.B.; Hol, W.H.G.; van Donk, E.; de Boer, W.; de Ruiter, P.C.; Middelburg, J.J.; Monroy, F.; Soetaert, K.; Thébault, E.; van de Koppel, J.; van Veen, J.A.; Viketoft, M.; van der Putten, W.H. (2013). Soil and Freshwater and Marine Sediment Food Webs: Their Structure and Function. BioScience 63(1): 35-42. dx.doi.org/10.1525/bio.2013.63.1.8, more Braeckman, U.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Vincx, M.; van Oevelen, D.; Soetaert, K. (2013). Meiofauna metabolism in suboxic sediments: currently overestimated. PLoS One 8(3): e59289. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059289, more de Goeij, J.M.; van Oevelen, D.; Vermeij, M.J.A.; Osinga , R.; Middelburg, J.J.; de Goeij, A.F.P.M.; Admiraal, W. (2013). Surviving in a marine desert: The sponge loop retains resources within coral reefs. 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Nematode feeding strategies and the fate of dissolved organic matter carbon in different deep-sea sedimentary environments. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 80: 94-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2013.05.018, more Pozzato, L.; van Oevelen, D.; Moodley, L.; Soetaert, K.; Middelburg, J.J (2013). Sink or link? The bacterial role in benthic carbon cycling in the Arabian Sea's oxygen minimum zone. Biogeosciences 10: 6879-6891. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-6879-2013, more Pozzato, L.; van Oevelen, D.; Moodley, L.; Soetaert, K.; Middelburg, J.J. (2013). Carbon processing at the deep-sea floor of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone: A tracer approach. J. Sea Res. 78: 45-58. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2013.01.002, more Tecchio, S.; van Oevelen, D.; Soetaert, K.; Navarro, J.; Ramírez-Llodra, E. (2013). Trophic Dynamics of Deep-Sea Megabenthos Are Mediated by Surface Productivity. PLoS One 8(5). dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063796, more Soetaert, K; van Oevelen, D.; Sommer, S. (2012). Modelling the impact of Siboglinids on the biogeochemistry of the Captain Arutyunov mud volcano (Gulf of Cadiz). Biogeosciences 9(12): 5341-5352. dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-5341-2012, more van Oevelen, D.; Soetaert, K.; Heip, C. (2012). Carbon flows in the benthic food web of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain: The(un)importance of labile detritus in supporting microbial and faunal carbon demands. Limnol. Oceanogr. 57(2): 645-664. dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.2012.57.2.0645, more Veuger, B.; van Oevelen, D.; Middelburg, J.J. (2012). Fate of microbial nitrogen, carbon, hydrolysable amino acids, monosaccharides, and fatty acids in sediment. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 83: 217-233. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.12.016, more Guilini, K.; Soltwedel, T.; van Oevelen, D.; Vanreusel, A. (2011). Deep-sea nematodes actively colonise sediments, irrespective of the presence of a pulse of organic matter: Results from an in-situ experiment. PLoS One 6(4): e18912. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018912, more van Oevelen, D.; Soetaert, K.; Garcia, R.; de Stigter, H.C.; Cunha, M.R.; Pusceddu, A.; Danovaro, R.; Garcia, R. (2011). Canyon conditions impact carbon flows in food webs of three sections of the Nazare canyon. Deep-Sea Res., Part 2, Top. Stud. Oceanogr. 58(23-24): 2461-2476. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.04.009, more de Assunção Franco, M.; Vanaverbeke, J.; van Oevelen, D.; Soetaert, K.; Costa, M.J.; Vincx, M.; Moens, T. (2010). Respiration partitioning in contrasting subtidal sediments: seasonality and response to a spring phytoplankton deposition. Mar. Ecol. (Berl.) 31(2): 276-290. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2009.00319.x, more De Laender, F.; van Oevelen, D.; Frantzen, S.; Middelburg, J.J.; Soetaert, K. (2010). Seasonal PCB bioaccumulation in an Arctic marine ecosystem: a model analysis incorporating lipid dynamics, food-web productivity and migration. Environ. Sci. Technol. 44(1): 356-361. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es902625u, more Cook, P.L.M.; van Oevelen, D.; Soetaert, K.; Middelburg, J.J. (2009). Carbon and nitrogen cycling on intertidal mudflats of a temperate Australian estuary: 4. Inverse model analysis and synthesis. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 394: 35-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps08270, more Van den Meersche, K.; Soetaert, K.; van Oevelen, D. (2009). xsample(): An R function for sampling linear inverse problems. J. Stat. Software 30(Code Snippet 1): 1-15, more van Oevelen, D.; Duineveld, G.; Lavaleye, M.; Mienis, F.; Soetaert, K. (2009). The cold-water coral community as a hot spot for carbon cycling on continental margins: A food-web analysis from Rockall Bank (northeast Atlantic). Limnol. 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Modeling growth and carbon allocation in two reed beds (Phragmites australis) in the Scheldt estuary. Aquat. Bot. 79(3): 211-234. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2004.02.001, more
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Orejas, C.; Taviani, M.; Ambroso, S.; Andreou, V.; Bilan, M.; Bo, M.; Brooke, S.; Buhl-Mortensen, P.; Cordes, E.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Ferrier-Pagès, C.; Godinho, A.; Gori, A.; Grinyó, J.; Gutiérrez-Zárate, C.; Hennige, S.; Jiménez, C.; Larsson, A.I.; Lartaud, F.; Lunden, J.; Maier, C.; Maier, S.R.; Movilla, J.; Murray, F.; Peru, E.; Purser, A.; Rakka, M.; Reynaud, S.; Roberts, J.M.; Siles, P.; Strömberg, S.M.; Thomsen, L.; van Oevelen, D.; Veiga, A.; Carreiro-Silva, M. (2019). 38 Cold-Water Coral in Aquaria: Advances and Challenges. A Focus on the Mediterranean, in: Orejas, C. et al. Mediterranean cold-water corals: Past, present and future. Understanding the deep-sea realms of coral. Coral Reefs of the World, 9: pp. 435-471. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91608-8_38, more van der Meer, J.; Brey, T.; Heip, C.; Herman, P.M.J.; Moens, T.; van Oevelen, D. (2013). Measuring the flow of energy and matter in marine benthic animal populations, in: Eleftheriou, A. (Ed.) Methods for the study of marine benthos. pp. 349-425, more Vanaverbeke, J.; Courtens, W.; Deneudt, K.; Franco, M.A.; Gysels, E.S.; Hellemans, B.; Huyse, T.; Larmuseau, M.; Mees, J.; Moodley, L.; Pampoulie, C.; Provoost, P.; Remerie, T.; Soetaert, K.; Stienen, E.W.M.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Van de walle, M.; van Oevelen, D.; Volckaert, F.A.M.; Vincx, M. (2007). TROPHOS: Fundamental research for policy and sustainable management, in: Calewaert, J.-B. et al. (Ed.) Science and sustainable management of the North Sea: Belgian case studies. pp. 21-81, more van der Meer, J.; Heip, C.H.R.; Herman, P.M.J.; Moens, T.; van Oevelen, D. (2005). Measuring the flow of energy and matter in marine benthic animal populations, in: Eleftheriou, A. et al. (Ed.) Methods for the study of marine benthos. pp. 326-407, more
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van Oevelen, D. (2005). The structure of marine benthic food webs: combining stable isotope techniques and inverse modeling. PhD Thesis. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen: Groningen. 143 pp., more
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Pint, S.; Stevens, M.; De Troch, M.; van Oevelen, D.; Heymans, S.; Leclercq, F.; Asselman, J.; Vandamme, S.; Lorré, D.; Janssen, C.; Everaert, G. (2025). A food web model of the Southern Bight of the North Sea: Historical dynamics (1991–2022) to support ecosystem-based management, in: Mees, J. et al. Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day, 5 March 2025, Brugge. VLIZ Special Publication, 94: pp. 30-31, more Stevens, M.; Pint, S.; Musimwa, R.; Standaert, W.; De Troch, M.; van Oevelen, D.; Heymans, J.J.; Everaert, G. (2024). Food web models for ecosystem-based management in the Southern Bight of the North Sea, in: Mees, J. et al. Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day, 6 March 2024, Oostende. VLIZ Special Publication, 91: pp. 120, more Rios-Yunes, D.; Tiano, J.C.; van Oevelen, D.; van Dalen, J.; Soetaert, K. (2022). Intertidal sediments exhibit different nutrient filtration capacity along the estuarine salinity gradient, in: EGU General Assembly 2022. Vienna, Austria 23–27 May 2022. pp. EGU22-4012. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4012, more Maier, S.; Kutti, T.; Bannister, R.; van Rijswijk, P.; van Breugel, P.; De Froe, D.; van Oevelen, D. (2017). Survival in a feast-famine environment: Resource utilization, storage and recycling in cold-water coral reefs, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Scientist Day. Brugge, Belgium, 3 March 2017. VLIZ Special Publication, 79: pp. 52, more Mevenkamp, L.; Brown, A.; Guilini, K.; Lins, L.; Moodley, L.; Stratmann, T.; Sweetman, A.; van Oevelen, D.; Westerlund, S.; Vanreusel, A. (2016). Responses of nematodes to increased copper toxicity, tailings exposure and sediment deposition from in-situ and laboratory experiments, in: MIDAS final meeting, 3-7 October 2016, Het Pand, Gent, Belgium: conference programme and abstract volume. pp. 52, more Mevenkamp, L.; Stratmann, T.; Moodley, L.; Westerlund, S.; Sweetman, A.; van Oevelen, D.; Guilini, K.; Vanreusel, A. (2015). Effects of short term exposure with mine tailings on deep-sea benthic ecosystem function and services, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – VLIZ Young Scientists’ Day. Brugge, Belgium, 20 February 2015. VLIZ Special Publication, 71: pp. 92, more Heip, C.; Soetaert, K.; Moodley, L.; van Oevelen, D. (2010). Meiobenthic research: trends and challenges in the perspective of global marine ecological research, in: Gheerardyn, H. et al. (Ed.) Fourteenth International Meiofauna Conference, Aula Academica, Ghent, 11-16 July 2010. Book of Abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 44: pp. 7-8, more De Laender, F.; van Oevelen, D.; Frantsen, S.; Soetaert, K.; Janssen, C.R.; Middelburg, J.J. (2009). Seasonal PCB bioaccumulation in an Arctic marine ecosystem: a model analysis, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts: an overview of marine research in Belgium anno 2009. 10th VLIZ Young Scientists' Day. Special edition at the occasion of 10 years VLIZ. VLIZ Special Publication, 43: pp. 44, more Guillini, K.; van Oevelen, D.; Schewe, I.; Soltwedel, T.; Vanreusel, A. (2008). The trophodynamic role and colonisation capacity of nematode communities in different Arctic deep-sea environments, in: World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Valencia, Spain, 11-15 November 2008: book of abstracts. pp. 1, more Franco, M.A.; Soetaert, K.; van Oevelen, D.; Van Gansbeke, D.; Costa, M.J.; Vincx, M.; Vanaverbeke, J. (2007). Trophic resource and position of metazoan meiobenthos at contrasting subtidal sediments: combining carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis and labelling of food resources, in: Thirteenth International Meiofauna Conference (THIRIMCO) July 29 - August 3, 2007, Recife, Brazil: Abstract book. pp. [33], more Vandewiele, S.; Kayal, E.; van Oevelen, D.; Middelburg, J.J. (2007). An isotope dilution approach to assess the nutritional value of detritus, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) VLIZ Young Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 2 March 2007: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 39: pp. 67, more Hummel, H.; Schaub, B.; Sistermans, W.C.H.; Rietveld, M.; Markusse, R.; Verschuure, K.; van Hoesel, O.; Ysebaert, T.J.; van Oevelen, D.; Herman, P.M.J. (2002). Limitations and solutions to the exchange of macrobenthos community data between scientists and CZM managers as shown in the frame of human impact monitoring studies in SW Netherlands, in: Brown, M. et al. The Colour of Ocean Data: International Symposium on oceanographic data and information management, with special attention to biological data. Brussels, Belgium, 25-27 November 2002: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 11: pp. 19, more
Reports (15) [show]
Pint, S.; Lorré, D.; Stevens, M.; De Troch, M.; Heymans, S.; van Oevelen, D.; Everaert, G. (2026). Ecopath with Ecosim model of the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Version 4. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Ostend. 55 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.48470/129, more van Oevelen, D.; Peck, N.; Jak, R.; Polling, M.; van Dalen, J.; Peck, M.A.; van Walraven, L. (2025). High temporal resolution zooplankton dynamics in the Dutch coastal zone (ID14 MONS Monitoring Zooplankton Phase 1) - Results from 1 year of Marsdiep sampling. NIOZ: Yerseke. [40] pp., more Pint, S.; Stevens, M.; De Troch, M.; van Oevelen, D.; Heymans, J.J.; Everaert, G. (2024). Ecopath model of the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Version 3. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Ostend. 37 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.48470/74, more Pint, S.; Stevens, M.; De Troch, M.; van Oevelen, D.; Heymans, J.J.; Everaert, G. (2023). Ecopath model of the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Version 2. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Ostend. 37 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.48470/23, more Jak, R.G.; van Walraven, L.; van Oevelen, D. (2022). Voorstel voor monitoring van zoöplankton in de Noordzee.Monitoringplan zoöplankton MONS ID14. Wageningen Marine Research Report, C014/22. Wageningen Marine Research: Den Helder. 54 pp. https://doi.org/10.18174/566824, more van Oevelen, D.; Soetaert, K.; Peperzak, L.; Blauw, A.; Stolte, W.; Dijkman, N.; Rijkeboer, M. (2022). Monitoringsplan voor meerjarige monitoring fytoplanktonsamenstelling en primaire productie. ID4 MONS no-regret actie primaire productie. NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research: Yerseke. 39 pp., more van Oevelen, D.; Kromkamp, J.C.; Dijkman, N.; Blommaert, L. (2021). Primaire productie in de Westerschelde over de periode 2016-2019 bepaald m.b.v. de Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometry techniek. NIOZ: Yerseke. 55 pp., more Baussant, T.; Nilsen, M.; Westerlund, S.; Ramanand, S.; Ravagnan, E.; Zetsche, E.M.; Gerla, D.J.; van Oevelen, D. (2014). Study of Lophelia pertusa coral under different food conditions and varying drill cutting exposure concentrations. Report IRIS – 2014/075. [S.n.]: [s.l.]. , more Vanaverbeke, J.; Franco, M.A.; Remerie, T.; Vanreusel, A.; Vincx, M.; Moodley, L.; Soetaert, K.; van Oevelen, D.; Courtens, W.; Stienen, E.; Van de walle, M.; Deneudt, K.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Draisma, S.; Hellemans, B.; Huyse, T.; Volckaert, F.A.M.J.; Van den Eynde, D. (2007). Higher trophic levels in the southern North Sea “TROPHOS”: Final report EV/25. Belgian Science Policy: Brussel. 89 pp., more Vanaverbeke, J.; Franco, M.A.; van Oevelen, D.; Moodley, L.; Provoost, P.; Steyaert, M.; Soetaert, K.; Vincx, M. (2006). Benthic responses to sedimentation of phytoplankton on the Belgian Continental Shelf, in: Rousseau, V. et al. (Ed.) Current status of eutrophication in the Belgian coastal zone. pp. 73-90, more Soetaert, K.; van Oevelen, D.; Moodley, L. (2004). Benthic-pelagic coupling and sediment metabolism at the Belgian Continental Shelf, in: Hogere trofische niveaus in de Zuidelijke Noordzee 'TROPHOS': wetenschappelijk verslag voor de periode van 01/02/2003-31/01/2004. pp. 9-13, more van Oevelen, D.; Van den Bergh, E.; Ysebaert, T.; Meire, P. (2000). Literatuuronderzoek naar estuariene herstelmaatregelen. Rapport Instituut voor Natuurbehoud, 2000.4. Instituut voor Natuurbehoud: Brussel. 55 pp., more van Oevelen, D. (1999). Modeling bulrush growth along the Schelde. NIOO-CEMO Student Report, 1999(2). CEMO/NIOO: Yerseke. 50 pp., more Hettinga, O.; Van der Welle, J.; van Oevelen, D.; Meire, P. (1998). De inpassing van de Barbierbeek in het gecontroleerde overstromingsgebied Kruibeke-Bazel-Rupelmonde. Rapport Instituut voor Natuurbehoud, 98(22). Instituut voor Natuurbehoud: Brussel. XIV, 92 pp., more van Oevelen, D. (1997). Studie naar de mogelijkheden tot het toelaten van een gecontroleerd gereduceerd getij in het gecontroleerd overstromingsgebied Kruibeke-Bazel-Rupelmonde. [S.n.]: Brussel. 18 pp., more
Other publications (3) [show]
Zetsche, E.-M.; Baussant, T.; Van Oevelen, D. (2016). Ciliary removal of particles by the cold‐water coral Lophelia pertusa. Reef Encounter 31(1): 53-56, more Vandewiele, S.; Kayal, E.; van Oevelen, D.; Middelburg, J.J. (2007). An isotope dilution approach to assess the nutritional value of detritus. Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO): Yerseke. 1 poster pp., more van Oevelen, D.; Van den Bergh, E.; Ysebaert, T.J.; Meire, P. (2000). Literatuuronderzoek naar ontpolderingen. Rapport Instituut voor Natuurbehoud, 2000.7. Instituut voor Natuurbehoud: Brussel. 42, bijlagen pp., more
Thesis (co-)promotor (6) [show]
Rios-Yunes, D. (2024). Biogeochemical interactions in delta systems: present state and future challenges. PhD Thesis. [S.n.]: Utrecht. ISBN 978-94-6469-786-5. 1-190 pp., more de Froe, E. (2023). Dinner's served in the deep sea: Environmental conditions, organic matter transport, and benthic fluxes at cold-water coral and sponge communities in the deep sea. Utrecht Studies in Earth Sciences, 222. PhD Thesis. Utrecht University: Utrecht. , more Maier, S.R. (2021). Oases in a world without sun. Biological drivers of cold-water coral reefs. PhD Thesis. Universiteit Gent: Gent. 247 pp. https://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8716097, more Tiano, J.C. (2020). Evaluating the consequences of bottom trawling on benthic pelagic coupling and ecosystem functioning. PhD Thesis. Ghent University: Ghent. 212 pp. https://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8677716, more Stratmann, T. (2018). Benthic ecosystem response to polymetallic nodule extraction in the deep sea. PhD Thesis. Ghent University: Ghent. ISBN 9789082561159. XXV, 351 pp. https://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8585749, more Mueller, C.E. (2014). The sum is more than its parts: key species in the functioning of cold-water coral reefcommunities. PhD Thesis. Utrecht University: [s.l.]. 158 pp. https://hdl.handle.net/1874/290254, more
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Mazzoli, A. (2020). Nutrient cycling and the pelagic food web in the Oosterschelde – Determining the role of Pacific oyster reefs. MSc Thesis. NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research: Yerseke. 47 pp., more

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