Gerlinde De Deyn (gerlindede@gmail.com)
Education:
- Bio-engineer, Ghent University (Belgium,
1998) Researcher at the Agricultural Research Center, Merelbeke (Belgium,1998-2000)
- PhD, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands, 2004)
- Post-doc, Department of Multitrophic Interactions, Center for Terrestrial
Ecology in Heteren, NIOO-KNAW (2004-2005)
- Post-doc at the Department of Integrative Biology, University of
Guelph, Ontario, Canada. NWO-Talent grant (Feb. 2005-Feb. 2006)
Research Interests:
Effects of soil fauna on ecosystem functioning, plant succession and
biodiversity. Interaction between plant diversity, plant productivity
and soil biota diversity, abundance and functioning; plant specific
effects. Interactions between shoot and root pathogens, herbivores,
mutualists, and decomposers and plant specific effects therein.
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