The common bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis is prone to a wide array of microbial antagonists

J Van Wichelen, P Vanormelingen, GA Codd… - Harmful algae, 2016 - Elsevier
Many degraded waterbodies around the world are subject to strong proliferations of cyanobacteria
– notorious for their toxicity, high biomass build-up and negative impacts on aquatic …

In search of new tractable diatoms for experimental biology

…, DG Mann, P Von Dassow, P Vanormelingen… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… auxosporulation have never been demonstrated in either P. tricornutum or T. pseudonana
… For P. multiseries, the picture is better, since there are data on the life cycles of P. multiseries…

An inordinate fondness? The number, distributions, and origins of diatom species

DG Mann, P Vanormelingen - Journal of eukaryotic …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… capitata (in both cases, unpublished new results of P. Vanormelingen), a few tens of kilometres
of separation have permitted high genetic divergence, whereas P. pungens is panmictic …

DNA-based species delimitation in algae

…, H Verbruggen, P Vanormelingen… - European journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
… the surveyed papers, intraspecific divergence could not be estimated because only a single
representative per species was included, and comparable interspecific branch lengths or p-…

Historical processes constrain patterns in global diatom diversity

…, VA Chepurnov, C Kilroy, P Vanormelingen… - Ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
There is a long‐standing belief that microbial organisms have unlimited dispersal capabilities,
are therefore ubiquitous, and show weak or absent latitudinal diversity gradients. In …

The diversity and distribution of diatoms: from cosmopolitanism to narrow endemism

P Vanormelingen, E Verleyen, W Vyverman - Protist diversity and …, 2009 - Springer
It has been claimed that microbial taxa will not exhibit endemism because their enormous
populations remove dispersal as an effective constraint on geographical range. Here we …

Urbanization drives cross‐taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales

…, H Van Dyck, P Vanormelingen… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… the complement of the obtained p value (p c ) with the Spearman rank order correlation (r
S ) between species richness and increasing urbanization level to obtain the r S p c statistic. …

The importance of dispersal related and local factors in shaping the taxonomic structure of diatom metacommunities

…, B Van de Vijver, VJ Jones, P Vanormelingen… - Oikos, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… Multiple regression analyses following exclusion of the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic outliers
revealed that the R 2 adj equalled 0.699 (p<0.0001) and 0.566 (p<0.0001) for WM and SS …

Hidden levels of phylodiversity in Antarctic green algae: further evidence for the existence of glacial refugia

…, E Verleyen, P Vanormelingen… - … of the royal …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Recent data revealed that metazoans such as mites and springtails have persisted in Antarctica
throughout several glacial–interglacial cycles, which contradicts the existing paradigm …

Nutrient removal from horticultural wastewater by benthic filamentous algae Klebsormidium sp., Stigeoclonium spp. and their communities: From laboratory flask to …

J Liu, B Danneels, P Vanormelingen, W Vyverman - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
… The second medium was a synthetic wastewater based on WC medium, to which additional
NO 3 − -N and PO 4 3− -P were added to a final concentration of 47.2 mg NO 3 − -NL −1 and …