Dries Bonte

The paper assesses how four pioneer plant species can retain sand and form embryo dunes along an urbanized Belgian coast, showing vegetation can enhance natural dune development.

The paper examines how urbanization affects specific traits of the European garden spider across 22 cities, finding trait-specific and city-dependent responses.

This study examines phenotypic plasticity in woodland strawberry genotypes across a latitudinal gradient, finding that plasticity varies by trait and is influenced by long-term temperature rather than precipitation.

This study examines morphological and thermoregulatory responses of spiders to urbanization across spatial scales, finding size increases with urbanization while body condition declines, and no significant color change despite pigment evidence.

This paper shows that ecological drift and dispersal limitation, not adaptive advantages, can enable polyploid populations to establish and diverge from diploids, leading to niche divergence.

This study shows that environmental and demographic variation additively reduce the repeatability of evolution in replicated experiments with Caenorhabditis elegans.

This study identifies 132 ancient whole-genome duplication events in angiosperms, showing they cluster around periods of environmental upheaval and extinction.

The paper analyzes Common Toad population trends in Flanders over four decades and finds no significant link between population decline and surrounding landscape characteristics.

The paper tests if host niche breadth influences passive dispersal decisions in phytophagous mites by exposing them to host-derived kairomones and measuring departure rates.

This study examines how selection and genetic variation interact to influence rosette diameter and herbivore resistance in Fragaria vesca under different precipitation conditions across multiple sites.

This study shows that whole genome duplication in Spirodela polyrhiza leads to highly repeatable and deterministic phenotypic outcomes, with ploidy explaining more phenotypic variation than genetic background.

This study shows dispersal heterogeneity, not evolution, is the main driver of biodiversity patterns in structured and unstructured landscapes.

The paper examines polyploid-diploid competition in Spirodela polyrhiza under stress and shows negative frequency-dependent growth fails to overcome competitive disadvantages.

The paper investigates factors driving invertebrate community structure in West-European coastal dunes, finding biogeography and marram grass characteristics are key drivers.

The paper compiles a dataset of arthropod life histories and ecological traits to support conservation strategies and predict species vulnerability to environmental changes.

The paper examines covariation among dispersal, life history, and thermal niches in 4000 Western European arthropod species, identifying two trait syndromes linked to climate change adaptation potential.

The paper examines how urbanization affects nematode trapping in Cepaea nemoralis snails, finding reduced encapsulation rates and a link between snail size and nematode presence.

This study shows urbanization affects web-building behavior in spiders independently of body size changes across different spatial scales.

The paper shows that habitat choice enables ecological specialisation to persist despite dispersal, stabilizing metapopulation dynamics through individual-based modeling.

The paper tests how bottom-up and top-down controls affect dispersal across species and shows their impacts on community dynamics.

This study shows intraspecific trait variation explains community-level behavioural responses to urbanisation in spiders, enhancing capture efficiency and buffering ecosystem impacts.

The paper argues for dispersal as an independent life history trait that influences fitness and evolutionary dynamics in spatially structured environments.