Piet Spaak

The paper tracks quagga mussel population dynamics in Lake Constance, finding shallow-water saturation and deep-water expansion, contrasting with patterns in the Laurentian Great Lakes.

The paper tests how microbiome composition affects host survival in Daphnia magna infected with a fungal parasite, finding genotype- and life-stage-dependent effects.

The paper shows that terrestrial aphid herbivory indirectly drives adaptive evolution in aquatic Daphnia populations by altering macrophyte and phytoplankton dynamics.

The paper examines how Daphnia microbiomes vary with diet, environmental conditions, and parasite outbreaks across 13 years of field data.