Hilde Eggermont

Dr. Hilde Eggermont
Limnology Unit
Department of Biology
Ghent University
Ledeganckstraat 35
BE-90000 Gent
Belgium


Phone: +32-9-2645262
Phone2: +32-473-613675
Fax: +32-9-2645343
E-mail: h.eggermont(at)biodiversity.be
URL Institution: dl.dropbox.com/u/78509456/MRI-research_summaries/research%20summary_Hilde%20Eggermont.pdf
Personal URL: link


Key Publications of Hilde Eggermont (up to ten) :
Publication list can be found on: http://www.ecology.ugent.be/limno/HE.php

Eggermont H., O. Heiri, D. Verschuren, 2006. Subfossil Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) as quantitative indicators for past salinity variation in African lakes. Quaternary Science Reviews 25:1966-1994.

Eggermont H. & D. Verschuren, 2007. Taxonomy and diversity of Afroalpine Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) on Mount Kenya and the Ruwenzori Mountains, East Africa. Journal ofBiogeography 34: 69-89.

Kroepelin S., D. Verschuren, A.M. Lezine, H. Eggermont, C. Cocquyt, P. Francus, J.-P. Cazet, M. Fagot, B. Rumes, J.M. Russell, D. Conley, M. Schuster, H. von Suchodoletz, D.R. Engstrom, 2008. Climate-driven ecosystem succession in the central Sahara: the last 6000 years. Science 320: 765-768


Eggermont H., D. Verschuren, M. Fagot, B. Rumes, B. Van Bocxlaer & S. Kröpelin, 2008. Aquatic community response to salinity increase in a groundwater-fed lake system duringlate-Holocene desiccation of the central Sahara desert. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 2411-2425.

Eggermont H., J. Russell, G. Schettler, K. Van Damme, I. Bessems & D. Verschuren, 2007. Physical and chemical limnology of alpine lakes and pools in the Rwenzori Mountains(Uganda-Congo). Hydrobiologia 592: 151-173.





Specialties of Hilde Eggermont:
tropical (paleo)limnology, african mountain lakes, taxonomy, biological proxies


Research Summary 2008 

Last update: 12/14/13
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)

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