Curriculum magda - UGent



Curriculum vitae of Magda Espeel - VINCX

Personalia

- born 16 July 1955, Sint-Joost-ten-Node, Belgium

- married to Marc Espeel (Dr. Science)

- 2 children

- personal address: 's Gravenstraat 46, 9810 Nazareth, Belgium

09/385.45.16

Studies

- Secondary school, Scientific direction, Halle, Belgium, diplom June 1973.

- High school : State University of Gent, Faculty of Science.

July 1974 : 1° candidature Biology (Distinction)

July 1975 : 2° candidature Biology ( The greatest distinction)

July 1976 : 1° licentiate Zoology (Great distinction)

Sep 1977 : 2° licentiate Zoology; morphology and systematics; thesis: "Biology of Canuella perplexa T.&A. Scott, 1893.".(The greatest distinction)

1981 : Third cycle Marine Ecology

1982 : Aggregate high secundary school

1986 : Dr. Science, Zoology (The greatest distinction); thesis " Free-living marine nematodes from the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Part I. Ecology; part II. Systematics."

Jobs

- 1 October 1977 - 30 september 1981 : research assistant National Science Foundation (aspirant), in the Institute of Zoology, Dir. Prof. Dr. A. Coomans, University of Gent, K.L. Ledeganckstraat, 35, B-9000 Gent, Belgium.

- 1 October 1982 - 31 July 1988 : research assistant (full-time), same Institute.

- 1 August 1988 - 31 July 1992 : senior research assistant same institute

- 1 August 1992 - 31 January 1995 : docent at the same University

- 1 February 1995 – 30 September 1998 : hoofddocent at the same University

- 1 October 1998 – Hoogleraar at the same University

- 1 October 2004 – Gewoon Hoogleraar at the same University

The job is divided in an educational task and in a scientific task :

- accompaniment of theses of zoology students (M.Sc. and Ph.D. level)

- practical exercises in zoology for biology students, veterinarians, geologists, geograpghy students,...

- lecturer in zoology for biology students

- lecturer in third cycle marine ecology

- lecturer in Postgraduate Nematology (Chromadoria, Ecology of Free-living nematodes, Biomonitoring of Aquatic nematodes, Biodiversity)

- lecturer in FAME course (VUB, Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology, course; Benthos (15 h) ; Biodiversity (15 h)).

- theoretical and practical courses Systematics and Morphology of Invertebrates (third year Biology), RUG, 45 h + 45 h

- theoretical courses in Coastal Ecosystems (last year biology) RUG, 15 h

- theoretical and practical courses in Data Treatment (last year biology) RUG, 7.5 h + 22.5 h

- practical courses in General Zoology (first year biology), RUG, 48 h

- practical courses in General Zoology, partim Arthropoda (first year biology), RUG, 24 h

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Since October 1987: coordinator of the Marine Biology Section of the Institute of Zoology, responsable for the following research projects:

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Zoology Institute, Marine Biology Section,

University of Gent,

Krijgslaan, 281, building S8

9000 Gent

tel +32 9 2648529

fax + 32 9 2648598

email : magda.vincx @ugent.be

Promotor and/or of participant in following projects :

- Floristics, faunistics and ecology of Kenyan coastal biotopes (FKFO 1988-1992)

- Biology of the marine benthos and demersal fishes (FKFO 1988-1992).

- Meiobenthic research in a dumping area in the North Sea. (1987-1991).

- Macrobenthic research in the Western Scheldt estuary (RWS 1988).

- Systematics, Ecology & Biogeography of marine organisms in the Indian Ocean (FKFO 1992-1995)

- Major Biological Processes in European Tidal Estuaries (EC-MAST 1990-1993)

- Dynamics and assessment of Kenyan mangrove ecocsystems (EG-1989-1991)

- Research on meiobenthos in Polar regions (FKFO, 1989-1992)

- Natural variability and the prediction of change in marine benthic ecosystems (MAST I-EC, 1990-1992)

- Oceanografie : rol van het benthos in mariene ecosystemen en effecten van milieuverontreining (GOA, Min. Onderwijs, RUG, 1992-1998)

- Bodemsamenstelling in functie van biologisch onderzoek (Onderzoeksfonds RUG, 1991)

- Structure and function of the benthos in estuarine en coastal ecosystems in relation to recent and future antropogenic influences (Impulsprogramma Zeewetenschappen, 1992-1996)

- MATURE : biogeochemistry of the Maximum Turbidity zone in Estuaries (EG Environment, 1993-1994)

- Community structure and processes in the deep-sea benthos (EC-MAST II, 1993-1995).

- Role of the meiobenthos in the Antarctic Ecosystem (Programma Antarctica, Wetenschapsbeleid, 1992-1995)

- Risk Assessment of Coastal Nourishment Techniques (RIACON), EC-MAST contract MAS2-CT94-0084.

- Onderzoek naar de ruimtelijke variatie van het MAcrobenthos voor de Westkust in functie van de ecologische bijsturing van een kustverdedigingsproject, AMINAL, Min. Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 1994.

- Onderwijsproject Vlaamse Gemeenschap Zuid-Afrika (ZAFR9504/ZAFR9604) (2.000.000 BF voor 1995; 2.000.000 BF voor 1996) 'Mariene biologie : morfologie, systematiek & ecologie'.

- BENGAL - EC- MAST III - High Resolution temporal and spatial study of the BENthic biology and Geochemistry of a north-eastern Atlantic abyssal Locality. 1996-1999

- ECOFLAT - EC- ENVIRONMENT ‘The eco-metabolism of an estuarine tidal flat’, 1996-1999.

- FWO-Onderzoeksproject : 3G0086.96 ‘Causale factoren van biodiversiteit : gemeenschapsstructuur, fylogenie en biogeografie’ (1996-1999).

- FWO-Onderzoeksproject : 3G0046.97 ‘Het benthos in Antarctica : structurele en functionele biodiversiteit’ (1997-2000)

- Onderwijsproject Vlaamse Gemeenschap- Zuid-Afrika , 1 jan 1997-31 oktober 1997 : ‘Mariene Biologie en Nematologie. Onderricht over biodiversiteit van soorten en hun habitats.’

- OSTC – Belgium : Scientific support Sustainable Management of the North Sea ‘Structural and functional biodiversity of North Sea ecosystems’, 1997-2001.

- OSTC – Belgium : Scientific Research Programme on the Antarctic - Phase IV, ‘Meiobenthic biodiversity and fluxes within the antarctic biogeochemical environment’, 1997-2000.

- FWO ENIMSA - project : onderzoeksgemeenschap FWO : 1996 - 1998

- FWO research project : Biotic interaction in turbide systems : 1999 – 2002.

- IUS coordinator of the VLIR-ESPOL project : 1999 – 2008 (collaboration between VLIR-RUG-KUL-UIA-VUB)

- BOF – GOA : Biodiversity of marine benthic communities along ecological gradients (1998-2003), BOF – RUG.

- OSTC – Belgium : Aanmaak van een taxonomische databank van de meiofauna van de Noordzee. (2001-2002), MN/XX/806

- OSTC – Belgium : Higher trophoc levels in the Southern North Sea “TROPHOS” (2002 – 2006)

- OSTC – Belgium : Endocrine disturbance in the Scheldt Estuary : distribution, exposure and effects. ENDIS RISKS. (2002-2006)

- OSTC – Belgium : Long term trends in the macrobenthos of the Belgian Continental Shelf (2001 – 2003) MN/02/96

- Zeeland Seaports : Benthic evaluation of sand extraction area ‘Vlakte van de Raan’. 2002-09-13

- AMINAL – Flemish community : BEST : Biological evaluation of eleven sandy beaches along the Flemish coast. 2002-2004

- AMINAL – Flemish community : Study of the impact of sand suppletion on the ecosystem. 2002 (174V4502)

- 174V7802 : AMINAL Flemish community ‘Ecologische interacties op harde substraten. 2002-2003

- EU-MAFCONS : Managing Fisheries to conserve groundfish and benthic invertebrate species diversity. 2003 – 2006

- OSTC – Belgium : BALANS : Balancing impacts of human activities in the Belgian part of the North Sea (2002-2006); EV/02/21B

- FWO – 2002-2004 : Food, oxygen and bioturbation: an experimental study of meiofauna community structure.

- FWO – 2002-2005 : Biodiversity and the role of interstitial benthos of two European sandy beaches

- FWO – 2002-2005 : Trophic significance and ecological fate of microbial production and leaf litter in mangrove ecosystems.

- FWO – 2005 – 2006 :The functional role of nematodes and forams in benthic metabolism. G.0632.05 (53.800 + 7.500 euro per year)

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|Promotor |M. VINCX, A. VANREUSEL, W. VYVERMAN, K. SABBE |

|Start and end date |1 Jan 2005 – 31 Dec 2010 |

|Title |Biogeografie en Biodiversiteit van de zee – BBSea : integratie van ecologische en evolutieve patronen en |

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|Researchers |Thomas Remerie, Steven Degraer, Viktor Chepurnov |

|Financial org |GOA - BOF-UGent |Amount |1.200.000 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx – A. Coomans – W. Vyverman |

|Start and end date |01.01.1998 – 31.10.2004 |

|Title |Biodiversity of marine benthic communities along ecological gradients |

|Researchers |COOLEN R. – VAN KENHOVE A. – VANREUSEL A. – REMERIE T. – DE GREM I. – DEGRAER S. – CHEPURNOV V. – MUYLAERT |

| |J. – RAEMDONCK N., |

|Financial org. |GOA – BOF - UGent |Amount |1 469 686 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx – T. Moens |

|Start and end date |01.01.2002 – 31.10.2004 |

|Title |BOF/2 – 4: Functional diversity and process rate: the role of nematodes in the decomposition of organic |

| |matter in a brackish water habitat |

|Researchers |DERYCKE S. – MOENS T. |

|Financial org. |BOF - UGent |Amount |80 565,39 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.01.2002 – 31.12.2004 |

|Title |Ecology of fouling-organisms: a detailed study on Mytilopsis leucophaeata (Bivalvia, Dreissenidae) |

|Researchers |VERWEEN A. – DEGRAER S. |

|Financial org. |BOF UGent |Amount |7 436,80 EUR |

Europese Gemeenschap :

|Promotor | M. VINCX – A. VANREUSEL |

|Start and end date |1 feb 2004 – 31 jan 2009 |

|Title |Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning – MARBEF – EU Network of Excellence |

|Researchers |T. Moens – M. De Troch – J. Vanaverbeke – M. Steyaert – S. Degraer |

|Financial org. |EU |Amount |27.500 euro/year (approx.) |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.01.2003 – 30.06.2005 |

|Title |MAFCONS : Managing Fisheries to conserve groundfish and benthic invertebrate species diversity |

|Researchers |GOFFIN A. – DEGRAER S. |

|Financial org. |EU - |Amount |+/- 247 621 EUR |

BELGIAN SCIENCE POLICY :

|Promotor |M. VINCX |

|Start and end date |01.12.2001 – 30.11.2003 |

|Title |Long term trends in the macrobenthos of the Belgian Continental Shelf |

|Researchers |WITTOECK J. – BUYLE G. – GOFFIN A. – DEGRAER S. – VAN HOEY G. |

|Financial org. |Belgian Science Policy |Amount |148 735,99 EUR |

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|Promotor |M. VINCX |

|Start and end date |01.02.2002 – 30.04.2006 |

|Title |ENDIS – RISKS : Endocrine disturbance in the Scheldt Estuary: distribution, exposure and effects. |

|Researchers |FOCKEDEY N. – BEUSELINCK B. |

|Financial org. |Belgian Science Policy |Amount |390 000 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.10.2002 – 30.09.2006 |

|Title |BALANS : Balancing impacts of human activities in the Belgian part of the North Sea |

|Researchers |DEROUS S. – DEGRAER S. |

|Financial org. |Belgian Science Policy |Amount |90 000 EUR |

|Start and end date |01.01.2003 – 31.12.2004 |

|Title |Towards a spatial structural plan of sustainable management of the Sea (GAUFRE) |

|Researchers |DEROUS S., DEGRAER S. |

|Financial org. |Belgian Science Policy |Amount |31 500 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.02.2002 – 30.04.2006 |

|Title |Higher trophic levels in the Southern North Sea “TROPHOS” |

|Researchers |VANAVERBEKE J. – PEELAERS D. – RAEMDONCK N. – STEYAERT M. – |

| |DE MESEL I. – FRANCO M. |

|Financial org. |Belgian Science Policy |Amount |514 000 EUR |

|Promotor | M. VINCX – J. VANAVERBEKE |

|Start and end date |15 dec 2003 – 30 april 2006 |

|Title |Study of post-extraction ecological effects in the Kwintebank dredging area (SPEEK) |

|Researchers |J. Vanaverbeke – M. Steyaert – S. Degraer |

|Financial org. |Belgian Science Policy |Amount |179.970 EUR |

|Promotor |M. VINCX - S. DEGRAER |

|Start and end date |15 december 2003 – 30 april 2006 |

|Title |A biological valuation map for the Belgian Continental Shelf - BWZee |

|Researchers |S. Degraer – S. Derous – G. Van Hoey – J. Wittoeck |

|Financial org. |Belgian Science Policy |Amount |87.450 EUR |

|Promotor |M. VINCX – S. DEGRAER |

|Start and end date |15 december 2003 – 30 april 2006 |

|Title |Belgian shipwreck: hotspots for marine biodiversity (BEWRAMABI) |

|Researchers |S. Degraer – M. Steyaert |

|Financial org. |Belgian Science Policy |Amount |39.375 EUR |

|Promotor |M. VINCX – S. DEGRAER |

|Start and end date |15 december 2003 – 30 april 2006 |

|Title |Typology Reference Condition and Classification of the Belgian coastal waters (REFCOAST) |

|Researchers |S. Degraer – S. Derous |

|Financial org. |Belgian Science Policy |Amount |55.000 euro |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.01.2002 – 31.12. 2003 |

|Title |CAMPAGNE EASIZ 2000: Antarctica-campaign on board of the R/V Polarstern to the Weddell Sea |

|Researchers |VANHOVE S. – JANSSENS T. |

|Financial org. |Belgian Science Policy |Amount |22 310,41 EUR / 900 000 BF |

FWO- Vlaanderen

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.01.2002 – 31.12.2004 |

|Title |Food, oxygen and bioturbation: an experimental study of meiofauna community structure. |

|Researchers |Steyaert M. – Vanaverbeke J. – De Mesel I. – Van Gansbeke D. – |

| |Franco M. |

|Financial org. |F.W.O. – research project |Amount |65 691,78 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.01.2005 – 31.12.2006 |

|Title |VLANEZO II : De functionele rol van nematoden en foraminiferen in het benthische metabolisme. |

|Researchers |Steyaert M. – Vanaverbeke J. – De Mesel I. – Van Gansbeke D. – |

| |Franco M. |

|Financial org. |F.W.O. – research project |Amount |122.600 EUR |

|Promotor |M. VINCX |

|Start and end date |1 Jan 2005 – 31 Dec 2008 |

|Title |Bio-fysische karakterisering van indicatoren voor stabiliteit slikgebieden d.m.v. remote sensing (KISS) |

|Researchers |A. De BAcker – S. Degraer |

|Financial org. |F.W.O. – research project |Amount |37.200 EUR |

|Promotor |M. VINCX |

|Start and end date |01.01.2002 – 31.12.2002 |

|Title |Trophic significance and ecological fate of microbial production and leaf litter in mangrove ecosystems |

|Researchers |MOENS T. |

|Financial org. |F.W.O. – research project |Amount |34 903,40 EUR |

|Promotor |M. VINCX |

|Start and end date |01.01.2002 – 31.12.2005 |

|Title |Biodiversity and the role of interstitial benthos of two European sandy beaches |

|Researchers |ALCANTARA-EXPOSITO A. – GHESKIERE T – DE TROCH M. – MOENS T. – DEGRAER S. |

|Financial org. |F.W.O. – research project |Amount |229 549,40 EUR / 9 260 000 BF |

|Promotor |M. VINCX |

|Start and end date |01.10.2001 – 30.09.2004 |

|Title |Effect of biogeographic isolation on marine biodiversity: a case-study with harpacticoid copepods in |

| |tropical seagrass beds |

|Researchers |DE TROCH M. |

|Financial org. |F.W.O. – post-doctoral fellowship, first term |Amount |Post Doc |

|Promotor |M. VINCX |

|Start and end date |01.10.2002 – 30.09.2005 |

|Title |Structure, function and trophic role of nematode populations in estuarine food webs |

|Researchers |MOENS T. |

|Financial org. |F.W.O. – post-doctoral fellowship, first renewal |Amount |Post Doc |

|Promotor |M. VINCX |

|Start and end date |01.10.2002 – 30.09.2004 |

|Title |Study of the taxonomy, phylogeny and biodiversity of harpacticoid copepods associated with Scleractinia |

| |corals of tropical coasts and the deep sea |

|Researchers |GHEERARDYN H. - DE TROCH M. – VANREUSEL A. |

|Financial org. |FWO – aspirant + BOF UGent |Amount |10 000 EUR |

|Promotor |M. VINCX |

|Start and end date |01.10.2002 – 30.09.2004 |

|Title |Effects of ENSO on macrobenthic communities from sandy beaches in Ecuador |

|Researchers |VANAGT T. – DEGRAER S. – Fockedey N. |

|Financial org. |FWO – aspirant + BOF RUG |Amount |10 000 EUR |

|Promotor |Co-Promotor : M. Vincx / Promotor : W. Vyverman |

|Start and end date |01.01.2000 – 31.12.2003 |

|Title |Comparative morphological- and molecular-taxonomical research of Bacillariophyta, Nematoda, Crustacea and |

| |Rotifera. |

|Researchers |VIERSTRAETE A. |

|Financial org. |F.W.O.- research project |Amount |9 296 EUR |

IWT : scholarships

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.10.1999 – 30.09.2003 |

|Title |Diversity and process rates in a detritus foodweb: relationship between nematodes and heterotrophic |

| |bacteria in the decomposition of organic matter |

|Researchers |DE MESEL I. – MOENS T. – VANAVERBEKE J. |

|Financial org. |I.W.T – PhD scholarship |Amount |14 873,61 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.10.1999 – 30.09.2003 |

|Title |Marine Biodiversity: the hyperbenthic fauna on continental slopes |

|Researchers |VANQUICKELBERGHE V. – VANREUSEL A. |

|Financial org. |I.W.T – PhD scholarship |Amount |14 873,61 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.10.2000 – 30.09.2004 |

|Title |Interaction between biodiversity of the meiobenthos (in casu Nematoda) and tourism on three European sandy |

| |beaches |

|Researchers |GHESKIERE T. – DEGRAER S. – VANAVERBEKE J. |

|Financial org. |I.W.T – PhD scholarship |Amount |14 873,61 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.10.2001 – 30.09.2005 |

|Title |Spatio-temporal variability and population dynamics of the Abra alba - Mysella bidentata community on the |

| |Belgian Continental Shelf |

|Researchers |VAN HOEY G. – DEGRAER S. |

|Financial org. |I.W.T – PhD scholarship |Amount |14 873,61 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.10.2002 – 30.09.2006 |

|Title |Ephemeral neustonic macrofaunal communities on floating seaweeds (Belgian Continental Shelf) |

|Researchers |VANDENDRIESSCHE S. – DEGRAER S. |

|Financial org. |I.W.T – PhD scholarship |Amount |14 873,61 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.01.2003 – 31.12.2007 |

|Title |Population structure and dynamic of some bacterivorous nematodes along the North Sea coast and adjacent |

| |estuaries |

|Researchers |DERYCKE S. – MOENS T. |

|Financial org. |I.W.T – PhD scholarship |Amount |14 873,61 EUR |

|Promotor |M. VINCX |

|Start and end date |1 Oct 2004 – 30 Sep 2006 |

|Title |Successie- en rekolonisatiemechanismen van het macrobenthos in slikken |

|Researchers |Carl Van Colen |

|Financial org |IWT – Ph.D. scholarship |Amount |7 436,78 EUR |

|Promotor |M. VINCX |

|Start and end date |1 Oct 2004 – 30 Sep 2006 |

|Title |Habitatclassificatie voor macrobenthos |

|Researchers |Wouter WIllems |

|Financial org |IWT – Ph.D scholarship |Amount |7 436,78 EUR |

Vlaamse Gemeenschap

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

| |01.10.2002 – 30.09.2004 |

|Title |BEST : Biological evaluation of eleven sandy beaches along the Flemish coast |

|Researchers |SPEYBROECK J. – DEGRAER S. – GHESKIERE T. |

|Financial org. |Flemish community: AMINAL |Amount |147 413 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.12.2002 – 31.03.2003 |

|Title |Ecological monitoring coastal defense project Oostende (To-situation) |

|Researchers |SPEYBROECK J. – DEGRAER S. |

|Financial org. |Flemish community |Amount |23 217,10 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.04.2003 – 30.09.2003 |

|Title |Study of the impact of sand suppletion on the ecosystem |

|Researchers |SPEYBROECK J. – DEGRAER S. – VAN HOEY G. |

|Financial org. |Flemish community |Amount |58 917,61 EUR |

|Promotor |Co-Promotor : M. Vincx / Promotor : M. Hoffmann |

|Start and end date |01.08.2002 – 31.05.2003 |

|Title |Study of the seasonal variation of macroalgae, macrofauna and birds associated with intertidal hard |

| |substrates along the Flemish coast |

|Researchers |Volckaert A. – Degraer S. |

|Financial org. |Flemish community |Amount |37 678 EUR |

|Promotor |Co-Promotor : M. Vincx / Promotor : M. Hoffmann |

|Start and end date |01.07.2001 – 30.06.2004 |

|Title |Monitoring ecological recovery Ijzermonding |

|Researchers |Chavatte N. – Degraer S. |

|Financial org. |Flemish community |Amount |24 541,45 EUR |

|Promotor |M. VINCX – S. DEGRAER |

|Start and end date |1 March 2005 – 28 Feb 2006 |

|Title |Studie over de impact ban zandsuppleties op het ecosystem: fase II |

|Researchers |Jeroen Speybroeck – S. Degraer |

|Financial org |Min. Vl. Gemeenschap (AWK) |Amount |39.006 EUR |

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|Promotor |M. Vincx – S. Degraer |

|Start and end date |1 january 2005 – 31 january 2006 |

|Title |Monitoring van het benthos van zachte substraten : referentietoestand van het jaar nul (C-power- |

|Researchers |Véronique De Maersschalck |

|Financial org |KBIN - BMM |Amount |63.250 EUR |

|Promotor |M. Vincx |

|Start and end date |01.08.2001 – 31.07.2003 |

|Title |Early Warning System for Mussels-fouling |

|Researchers |VERWEEN A. – DEGRAER S. |

|Financial org. |NALCO / BASF |Amount |41 646 EUR |

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International cooperation:

- Centrum voor Estuariene en Mariene Ecologie, Yerseke, The Netherlands.

- British Museum National History, London, G.B.

- Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.

- IOS, NERC, Wormley, U.K.

- KMFRI, Mombasa, Kenya

- University of Nairobi, Kenya

- University of Florence, Italy

- Marine Station, Crete, Greece

- Station Marine, Wimereux, France

- Station Marine, Roscoff, France

- Universität Hamburg, Germany

- Plymouth Marine Laboratory, U.K.

- Rijkswaterstaat, Directie Zeeland, Nederland

- Rijkswaterstaat, Dienst Getijdewateren, Nederland

- University of Port Elisabeth, South-Africa

- ESPOL : Escuela Politecnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Memberships

- Royal zoological society of Belgium

- Royal society Dodonaea, Belgium

- Institute of Marine Research , Ostend, Belgium

- Belgian Centre for Oceanography

- Associated member of the Belgian National Committee for Oceanology of the Royal Academy

- International Association of Meiobenthologists (president from 1 jan 1996 onwards)

- Full member of the Belgian National Committee for Antarctic Research

- European Board for marine Science (European Science Foundation)

- Associated member of the Belgian National Comittee of Biological Sciences

- Associated member of the Academy of Overseas Sciences (1997- )

Advisory committees

- Begeleidingscommissie Natuurherstelproject IJZERMONDING (AMINAL)

- Raad van Beheer IZWO (Oostende, Provincie West-Vlaanderen) 1987-1999

- Evaluatiecollege (Hydrobiologie en mariene ecologie) IWT (1995, 1999)

- Evaluatiecommissie EG-MAST (april-juni 1995)

- Evaluatiecommissie EG-MAST (nov 1996)

- Elected member of the Faculty of Science (University of Gent), 1 Oct 1996 – 30 sept 1998

- Official member of the Faculty of Science (University of Gent), 1 Oct 1998-

- Member of the Ph.D. Commission of the Faculty of Science, University of Gent (1996-1998)

- president of the Opleidingscommissie Biologie University of Gent (1 October 1997- )

- Member of the direction committee of the Institute of Nature Conservation (Flanders, Belgium), Oct. 1998-

- VLIR-coordinator of the IUS program ESPOL-Ecuador (1999-2004); (30.000.000 BEF/year for Ecuador): coordinating for the VLIR 6 subprojects (inter-university collaboration VUB-KUL-UA-RUG)

- Member of the logistics supports commission for education of the Faculty of Science (+ bureau)

- Member of the direction committeee of the Royal Institute of of Natural History (Brussels), October 1998

- Member of the FWO Commission of international affairs ( 1 Oct 1999 - ); monthly meetings

- Member of the FWO commission of Biology (1 Oct 1999 - ); 2 meetings / year

- Member of the Raad van Beheer of the VLIZ v.z.w.(Flemish Institute of the Sea) (1 June 1999 - )

- Member of the Scientific Committee of the VLIZ v.z.w. (Flemish Institute of the Sea) (1 Jan 2000 - )

- Member of the working group of the evaluation commission for promotion of the academic grade in the Faculty of Science (Ghent University) March 2000

- Member of the Commissie Facultaire Fondsen, Faculteit Wetenschappen, RUG, vanaf 1 oktober 2002.

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Congresses

1978

- Fladen Ground Experiment, FLEX 76- , Brussels, Belgium

1979

-'Second congress on aquatic nematodes', Bremerhaven, W. Germany.

1980

- Concerted Actions Oceanography, Liège, Belgium.

1981

- 'Species concept in nematode systematics', Cambridge.

- 'Third Congress on Aquatic Nematodes', Plymouth, (lecture: Nematode communities in the Southern Bight of the North Sea.)

- ''European Marine Biological Society-congress', Texel, The Netherlands.

1982

- 'International Council for the Exploration of the Sea', Kiel. (lecture: 'Variability and productivity of the meiobenthos of the North Sea', in cooperation with C. Heip and R. Herman).

1983

- 'Fifth International Meiofauna Conference', Gent. (lecture: 'Meiobenthos of the Belgian coastal zone', in cooperation with C. Heip and R. Herman).

- 'Fourth Congress on Aquatic Nematodes', Roscoff, (lecture: 'Revision of some Desmodoridae species'; poster: 'Daptonema williamsi sp.n. from the Solomon Islands', in cooperation with A. Coomans.)

1984

- 'First International Congress of Nematology', Guelph, (invited lecture : 'Marine nematodes as indicators in ecological monitoring and bio-assays, in cooperation with G. Vranken and C. Heip.)

1985

- 'Fifth Congress on Aquatic Nematodes', Wenen, August1985. (poster: A preliminary study of the nematodes in the Bay of Calvi,-including some remarks on the morphology of the genus Perepsilonema', in cooperation with A. Vanreusel.)

- Concerted Actions Oceanography, Brussels, Belgium.

1987

- 'Sixth International Symposium on Aquatic Nematodes', Banuyls-sur-Mer (Frankrijk), (lecture: ''Phylogenetic analysis of the Desmodoridae s.l."'; poster: "The use of meiofauna in ecological monitoring" in cooperation with Chen Guotong.

1988

- 'Multivariate analysis of biological data: an introduction.', Meise, Société royale de botanique de Belgique.

- Meiofauna specialist group symposium: 'Meiofauna, recent advances and economic assessment', London, 'The Linnean Society of London'.

- ' International Symposium on the ecology of the North Sea', Texel, The Netherlands. (voordracht: 'Diversity of the nematode communities in the Southern Bight of the North Sea'.).

- Colloquium "Antarctica: beschermen of ontginnen?", Brussel, organised by Greenpeace.

- "Symposium, Invertebraten van België",K.B.I.N., Brussel (lecture: "Seasonal fluctuations and production of nematode communities in the Belgian coastal zone of the North Sea")

1989

- North Sea Studies, Gent, organised by Beheeerseenheid Mathematisch Model van de Noordzee en het Schelde-estuarium, Gent, Belgium. (lecture: The influence of the Western Scheldt on the meiobenthos of the Belgian coastal area", by M. Vincx & R. Herman).

- Congrès Limnologie-Océanographie, Problématique commune à l'étude des eaux continentales et marines (lecture: Recruitment of meroplanktonic larvae in the Southern Bight of the North Sea - Abra alba community (Renora-project), Dewarumez, J.M., Belgrano, A., Craeymeersch, J., Heip, C., Richard, A. & M. Vincx). Marseille, France.

- Seventh International Meiofauna conference (SVIMCO, 1989) Vienna, 21-25 August (lectures 1) A 4-years analysis of the meiofauna community of a dumping site of TiO2-waste off the Dutch coast", N. Smol, R. Huys & M. Vincx; 2) Seasonal fluctuations and production of nematode communities in the Belgian coastal zone of the North Sea", Vincx).

- Eight International Ocean Disposal Symposium, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 9-13 October (lecture : "A 4-years analysis of the meiofauna community of a dumping site of TiO2-waste off the Dutch coast", N. Smol, R. Huys & M. Vincx)

- 24th European Marine Biology Symposium, 4-10 October (poster: "Recruitment of meroplanktonic larvae in the Southern Bight of the North Sea -Renora-project", Dewarumez, J.M., Belgrano, A., Craeymeersch, J., Heip, C., Richard, A. & M. Vincx).

1990

- Visit to the First Institute of Oceanology (Qingdao, China), Second Institute of Oceanology (Hangzhou, China) and the Third Institute of Oceanology (Xiamen, China). (invitation of the National Natural Science Foundation of China) (lectures : The use of meiobenthos in pollution monitoring studies; A general Introduction of meiobenthology; The productivity of meiobenthos in the field).

- Lecturer in Extensive Postgraduate Course on 'The Structure and Dynamics of Shelf Benthos", Galway (Ireland), 21 August - 7 Sep 1990. 8h course on Meiofauna structure, organised by the European Institute for advanced studeis in Oceanography and the European Association of Marine Sciences and Techniques.

- The ecology of mangroves and related ecosystems., 24-30 September 1990. Mombasa, Kenya. Lectures (invited) : " 1) Ecology of mangrove meiofauna: a review or only a start. 2). Study of the meiobenthos in mangroves of Gazi Bay. poster : Meiofauna from seagrassbeds near mangroves in Kenyan coastal biotopes. (with S. Vanhove & P. Van Avermaet).

1991

- 6th Deep-sea Biology Symposium, Copenhagen, 30 June-5July 1991. Vanreusel & Vincx 'The meiobenthos of the transition zone to the deep sea in the Gulf of Biscay'.

- ECSA 21 (Estuarine & Coastal Science Association), Gent, 9-14 September 1991. Lecture : Li & Vincx 'The temporal distribution of nematodes in the Westerschelde'.

- EMBS, 26th European Marine Biology Symposium, Middelburg, The Netherlands, 17-21 September 1991.lecture : Belgrano, Vincx, Schrijvers, Van Erum, Craeymeersch, Heip & Dewarumez 'The effect of natural disturbances of the marine environment on the spatial and temporal distribution of meroplanktonic larvae'.

- Second Belgian Congress of Zoology, Hasselt, 15-16 November 1991. two lectures : (1): Schrijvers & Vincx 'An ecological study of the benthos of mangroves and surrounding beaches at Gazi Bay, Kenya. (2) Vanreusel & Vincx 'The factors structuring the meiobenthos communities in the shelf break area in the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic).

- MARS (Marine Research Stations), workshop, Plymouth (U.K.), 7-9 October 1991. 'Biological Diversity'.

- De Schelde, perspectieven voor ecologisch herstel, 24 oktober 1991, Bergen op Zoom.

- Colloquium - Marien Onderzoek in Vlaanderen - 20 jaar IZWO, 22 november 1991.

1992

- 2 - 15 February: research visit to KMFRI, Mombasa, Kenya (preparation of Ph.D. field work of J. Schrijvers).

- EUCO-workshop (European Coastline study), Galway, Ireland. 7-10 May 1992 (invited by the National Science Foundation as Belgian expert)

- Dodonaea symposium 'Biodiversiteit: studie, exploratie en behoud. 18 november 1992. poster : Verschelde D. & M. Vincx : 'Free-living marine nematodes (Nematoda, Desmodoroidea) from the Kenyan coast: morphology and systematics.'

1993

- 21-22 Jan 1993 : Progress in Belgian Oceanographic research. paper 1: 'Meiobenthos of the NE Atlantic' (A. Vanreusel, M. Vincx, B. Bett, A. Dinet, T. Ferrero, A. Gooday, P. Lambshead, O. Pfannkuche; T. Soltwedel.

paper 2 : 'The structure and dynamics of estuarine endo-benthic communities' M. Vincx, K. Soetaert & Li Jian.

poster 1 : 'Free-living marine nematodes (Nematoda, Desmodoroidea) from the Kenyan Coast : morphology and systematics' Verschelde D. & M. Vincx

poster 2 : 'Vertical distribution patterns of the meiobenthos communities in the sheld break area of the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic)' Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke & D. Schram.

- 27 - 30 jan 1993 : JEEP 92 - MAST workshop, Faro, Portugal.

- 15-17 March 1993 : MAST DAYS & EUROMAR MARKET, EC, Brussel (presentation of poster of JEEP 92)

- 23-28 September 1993 : 28th EMBS - symposium, Hersonissos, Crete. presentation 'The potential impact of meiofauna on the recruitment of macrobenthos in a subtidal coastal benthic community of the Ligurian sea (Northwestern Mediterranean) : a field result. authors : R. Danovaro, A. Belgrano, S. Fraschetti, M. Vincx, M. Curini-Galletti, G. Albertelli & M. Fabiano.' poster : Salud Deudero Company & M. Vincx 'A comparative study of the meiobenthic community structure at Mallorca & Cabrera (Balearic Islands, Mediterranean).'

- 29 September - 2 October 1993 : lecturer in the EUROFORM programme at the Institute of Marine Science, Iraklion, Crete.

- 5-6 November 1993 : Third Belgian Congress of Zoology, Liege, Belgium.

- 18-20 November 1993 : First EC-MATURE workshop, Hamburg, Germany. paper : Results on benthos of the first combined sampling campaign April - May 1993.

1994

- 19 jan 1994 : FKFO-studiedag 32.0094.92, Hasselt. Voordracht : Benthosonderzoek van de jaren 90.

- 2 march 1994 : Invloed van baggerspecielossingen op het leefmilieu in de Zuidelijke Noordzee (Brugge). Voordracht : Invloed van baggerwerken op bodemgemeenschappen (M. Vincx, M. Steyaert, D. Van Gansbeke, D. Schram & A. Vierstraete).

- 6-8 May 1994 : EC-MAST Data Meeting, Estoril, Portugal (wokshop van de EC-MAST II deep sea contract).

- 15 - 23 August 1994 : visit to ESPOL & INOCAR (Guayaquil, Ecuador) in order to prepare a VLIR-ABOS proposal (on invitation of the University of Gent)

- 12 - 16 September 1994 : ECOPS-conference in Bremen (as expert of the National Science Foundation, Belgium)

- 17-19 Oktober 1994 : 10 jaar Belgica 'Dialoog tussen de Wetenschappers en de gebruikers van de zee', Oostende. Voordracht : 'Bodemleven in de Noordzee : herstelbaar of hopeloos verloren ? '

1995

- 2-7 July 1995 : Ninth International Meiofauna Conference. Perpignan, France.

Voordrachten :

1. Steyaert M. & M. Vincx 'The distribution of meiobenthos in relationship with the biogeochemistry'.

2. Vanreusel, A., M. De Troch & M. Vincx 'Meiobenthos of hydrothermal sediments : preliminary observations'

3. Vanhove S. & M. Vincx 'Deep-sea meiofauna communities in Antarctica: structural analysis and relation with the environment'

4. Schrijvers, J., R. Schallier, J. Silence, J. Okonde & M. Vincx. 'Influence of epibenthos on meiobenthos in mangrove sediment: predation or resource competition ?'

5. Okondo, J., J. Schrijvers, J. Silence & M. Vincx. 'Community structure and seasonal fluctuation of meiobenthos of the Avicennia marina mangrove sediment at Gazi Bay, Kenya'

6. Moens, T. & M. Vincx. 'Feeding type classifications for estuarine and marine nematodes : the past, the present and the future'

7. Verschelde, D. & M. Vincx. 'Comments on character description and analysis in view of a phylogenetic approach on the Desmodoroidea (Nematoda)'

+ 9 POSTERS.

- 6-7 October 1995 : Inaugural meeting of the European Boards for MArine and Polar Science, Paris.

- 7-10 November 1995 : Second MAST Days and EUROMAR Market, Sorrento, Italy. Chairman of the session 'Biology and Ecology'; voordracht : The meiobenthos of two abyssal sites in the NE Atlantic with a contrasting food supply: a comparison of the community structure. A. Vanreusel, M. Vincx, B. Bett & A.L. Rice.

- 14 November 1995 : Voorstelling van de wetenschappelijke activiteiten van de Sectie Mariene Biologie in het Koninklijk Natuurwetenschappelijk Genootschap Dodonaea. Voordracht : 'Benthos in het mariene ecosysteem'.

1996

- 24-31 jan 1996 : invited by Eduplus Management Group Inc. as an expert in the Marine Science Education Project in the UNPATTI-University in Ambon (Indonesia)

- 4-5 March 1996 : EC-MAST-EERO workshop in Plymouth: Biodiversity inventory of European countries

- 1-2 April 1996 : ECOFLAT workshop in Yerseke (Nederland)

- 9-10 May 1996 : Den Haag-Rotterdam : ESF Board Marine Science (preparation of Biodiversity discussion)

- 14-15 May 1996 : Strasbourg : ESF : Systematic Biology Network (Coordination committee)

- 7-13 July 1996 : THINC : Third International Congress on Nematology, Guadeloupe. Convenor of the Session : Free-living marine nematodes. Oral presentation (Vincx & Steyaert : Structural Biodiversity of Free-Living Marine Nematodes as Indicator of Antropogenic Stress)

- 8-9 November 1996. Namur. Third Benelux Congress of Zoology. Adaptation , from molecules to communities. 3 communications (presented by first authors):

Moens, T., L. De Neve, A. Boone, D. Verschelde & M. Vincx. Localized adaptations to the abiotic factors temperature and salinity in the marine nematode Pellioditis marine Andrassy, 1983.

Lee Hee Joong, S. Vanhove & M. Vincx. Recolonisation of meiofauna in an iceberg scour area at the coast of Signy Island, Antarctica.

Vanhove, S. & M. Vincx. Meiobenthic diversity in the Weddell Sea: adaptation to the environmental conditions of Antarctica?

congres Steven USA

- 9-13 december 1996. Frankfurt am Main (Duitsland) : De Troch, M., F. Fiers & M. Vincx. Standardization of biodiversity research in the tropics with emphasis on epiphytal copepods. Abstractbook of the International Senckenberg Conference on ‘Global Biodiversity Research in Europe’.

1997

- 29-31 Jan 1997 : organiser of the first ECOFLAT workshop in Gent.

- 10 - 15 March, 1997 : LOICZEA-workshop in Mombasa, Kenya (preparation for a LOICZ EAST AFRICA programme)

- 21 March - 6 April 1997 : Ecuador, Guayaquil : sampling campaign in the frame of the ABOS-VLIR project and for the FWO-project Tropical Biodiversity.

- 29 - 31 May 1997 : secopn ENIMSA workshop in Brussel: communication : T. Moens & M. Vincx : A state of the art on respiration and secondary production in marine meiofauna

- 25 July - 13 August 1997 : visit to South Africa in the frame of the ZAFR9710 project of the Flemish Government ‘Marine Biology and Nematology’. University of Cape Town, University of Port Elizabeth and University of Stellenbosch. Seminar : The use of benthic infauna in pollution monitoring.

- 15 Oct - 20 Oct 1997, Hersonissos, Crete : ESF Network on Systematic Biology : New directions in Systematics. Preparation of an ESF programme. Rapporteur of the session on ‘Taxonomic challenges in species-rich groups’.

- 14 - 15 November 1997. Utrecht, Nederland. De Troch, M. F. Fiers & M. Vincx. Diversity of meiofauna in tropical seagrass beds: epiphytal copepods from Gazi Bay (Kenya). Abstractbook of the Fourth Benelux Congress of Zoology.

- 22 November 1997, Gent : derde Vlaams congres van Leraars Wetenschappen; organisatie van twee werkgroepen over Biodiversiteit van Mariene Bodemdieren. 80 bezoekers zijn rondgeleid in de sectie mariene biologie.

1998

8 - 13 januari 1998 : Werkbezoek aan ESPOL, Guayaquil, (Ecuador) met het oog op de voorbereiding van een prioritaire samenwerking VLIR- ESPOL

22 - 25 januari 1998 : Stockholm, Zweden : opponent van de doctoraatsthesis van Simon NDARO (University of Stockholm): promotor : Dr. Emil Olafsson.

31 januari - 4 februari 1998 : organisatie van de tentoonstelling ‘100 jaar Gand Island’ in Gent (n.a.v. ontdekking door A. de Gerlache van Gent eiland in Antarctica)

23 februari 1998 : Portugal : twee abstracts voor poster-presentation : (1) The spatial variability of the meiofauna composition and the nematode community structure in the intertidal area of the Sado. C. Rosado, M. Vincx & H. Adao. (2) Adao, Vincx, Marques ‘ Community structure and temporal variation of meiofauna of the sediments of seagrass beds, Zostera noltii, in the Mira estuary.

15-18 March, 1998 : ECOFLAT workshop in Southampton.

16-18 May 1998 : Brussel : 100 y Antarctica : Academy of Science

21-22 May 1998 : ESF- EMAPS workshop, ESTORIL/Lisbon

23-27 May 1998 : Third European Marine Science and Technology Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

24-25 May 1998 : Belgian Federal Marine Days (EXPO 1998) : presentation : Biodiversity patterns in the coastal zone.

6-7 November 1998 : 5th Benelux Congress of Zoology, Gent, Belgium. Presentation :

Boone, W., De Troch, M., Fiers, F. & M. Vincx. 1998. Harpacticoid copepods associated with the seagrass Halodule wrightii: spatial and taxonomic-hierarchical aspects of biodiversity

Gurdebeke, S., De Troch, M., F. Fiers & M. Vincx. 1998. Community structure of meiobenthos in an intertidal seagrass bed (Gazi Bay, Kenya): effect of habitat complexity on diversity

Cattrijsse, A. & M. Vincx. 1998. The benthic biodiversity if the Belgian inshore and offshore water.

Moens, T. & M. Vincx. 1998. Temperature, salinity and food tresholds in two estuarine bacterivorous nematode species : what is setting the limits ?.

1999

26-31 January 1999 : werkbezoek op ESPOL (Guayaquil) : promotorenzending ter voorbereiding van het activiteitenprogramma van het IUC-ESPOL voor 1999.

27 february – 7 March 1999 : IUC-mission to ESPOL : signing the South-contract for 1999. Signing of the agreement between ESPOL and Cuenca.

13-14 April 1999 : Marine Board of ESF, Paris, France.

22-23 April 1999 : EC-ESF workshop on Marine Biodiversity, Yerseke, Nederland

June 1999 : IUC-mission to ESPOL : discussion of the activity programme of 2000

July 1999 : IUC contact days in Brussels

Sep 1999 : ESF workshop on Biodiversity of nematodes. Gent, Belgium.

Janssens, T., De Troch, M., Cornejo, M.-H., Calderón, J. & Vincx, M., 1999. The effect of shrimpfarming on meiobenthic communities in the Gulf of Guayaquil (Ecuador). Abstractbook of the Sixth Benelux Congress of Zoology (Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 19-20, 1999). p. 66

2000

14-21 Jan 2000 : IUS-bezoek aan ESPOL – Guayaquil – Ecuador. Opvolging van de activititeiten 1999.

Seminarie : ‘Use of benthos as bio-indicator for sustainable management of the coastal zone. ‘

8-12 May 2000 : 14th International Senckenberg Conference, NORTH SEA 2000 Conference, Wilhemshaven,

Germany. (member of the Scientific Advisory Committee)

Invited speaker : M. Vincx : Biodiversity in the North Sea : fact and figures for the year 2000.

Other oral presentations :

-J. Vanaverbeke & M. Vincx. Meiobenthos and nematode community diversity patterns and biomass spectra in relationship with sediment composition. A study from sandbanks in the Southern Bight of the North Sea.

- S. Degraer, M. Vincx, P. Meire, V. Van Lancker, G. Moerkerke, P. Jacobs & J.P. Henriet. 2000. Macrobenthic community dynamics and stability in a future Belgian marine protected area.

Poster presentations :

- I. De Mesel, T. Moens, J. Vandenberghe, M. Vincx & J. Swings. Do bacteria affect the small-scale distribution of bacterivorous nematodes? A case study from the Paulina saltmarsh (Westerschelde estuary, SW Netherlands).

- W. Bonne, F. Fiers & M. Vincx. Harpacticoid communities on the Kwintebank: inlfuenced by human-induced physical disturbances ?

23 – 30 June 2000 : IUS-bezoek aan ESPOL – Guayaquil – Ecuador. Opvolging van de activititeiten 1999;

voorbereiden activiteiten 2000 en 2001.

Plymouth, 5 – 7 September, 2000. Poster resentation by M. De Troch ‘Island-role of seagrass species in a tropical seagrass bed: effects on diversity and ecological range size of harpacticoid copepods. De Troch, M., F. Fiers & M. Vincx. Abstract in ‘Aquatic habitats as ecological islands’, pag. 67.

Brussel, 24-25 November, 2000. Oral presentation : Deprez, T., Mees, J., Wooldridge, T. & M. Vincx. 2000.

Mysidlan: a multifunctional taxonomical database. 7th Benelux Congress of Zoology, Brussels, 24-25 November 2000. abstract p.13.

2001

12 –22 jan 2001 : VLIR - IUC- ESPOL – ECUADOR : workshop opvolging programma (netwerking)

23 Feb 2001 : VLIR-jongerencontactdag

verschillende posters van de medewerkers :

17-20 April 2001 : ICES Benthic Ecology Working Group, Wimereux ( MV enkel aanwezig op 18 april)

19 – 23 April 2001 : Gdansk, Poland. BIOMARE first Workshop (EU-Concerted Actions)

5 – 10 May, 2001. participation in the (BIOMARE) EuroConference (Korinth, 5-10/05/2001), including one oral presentation (Bonne & Vincx) and two poster presentations (De Mesel et al. and Degraer et al.)

o Bonne, W. & M. Vincx. Diversity of benthic copepods in a dynamic but intensively exploited marine environment.

o De Mesel, I., T. Moens, M. Vincx & J. Swings. The role of nematode diversity in the decomposition of organic matter in a brackish saltmarsh: an experimental approach.

o Degraer, S., A. Volckaert & M. Vincx. Macrobenthic zonation patterns along a morphodynamical continuum of macrotidal, low tide bar/rip and ultra-dissipative sandy beaches.

27 – 31 May 2001 : St John’s (Canada) : Annual meeting of the geological association of Canada : geology of marine habitat; presentation by S. Degraer ‘Definition of evaluation tools for the follow-up of a macrotidal, shallow marine benthic habitat’ (Van Lancker, V., G. Moerkerke, S. Degraer, P. Jacobs, J.P. Henriet & M. Vincx).

14- 14 June, 2001. IV International Nematology Symposium, Moscow, Russia. Paper presentation : Bezerra, T.N., V.G. Fonseca-Genevois & M. Vincx. Distribution of Perepsilonema kellyae and Perepsilonema n.sp. at a tropical sandy beach of Milagres, Linda’s Isthlus, Pernambuco, Brazil. Pag. 61.

15-20 July, 2001. ELIMCO, Eleventh International Meiofauna Conference, Boston, USA

oral presentations :

1. M. Vincx , Meiofauna as models for regional diversity; moderator of a session

2. De Troch, M., F. Fiers & M. Vincx. Why are there so many copepod species in Tropical Seagrass beds? Ecological Hypothesis and Answers by comparing different spatial levels of biodiversity. abstractbook : pag. 30

3. Vanhove, S., T. Janssens, A. Dewicke, T. Moens & M. Vincx. Can we use the meiofauna as a tool for experimental designs in Antarctica ? abstractbook : pag. 57

4. Vanaverbeke, J., T. Gheskiere & M. Vincx. Structural diversity of nematode communities from isolated sandbank systems on the Belgian Continental Shelf (Southern Bight of the North Sea). abstractbook : 58

5. De Mesel, I., S. Derycke, A. Phiips, T. Moens, M. Vincx & J. Swings. Species Diversity and Ecosystem functioning: An experiment linking nematodes to the decomposition of cordgrass detritus. abstractbook : pag. 29

6. Steyaert, M., J. Vanaverbeke & M. Vincx. Functional response of different nematode communities on a natural organic enrichment: bentho-pelagic coupling. abstractbook : pag. 55

7. Bonne, W. & M. Vincx. Harpacticoid community shifts on a subtidal sandbank: defining the impact of marine sand extraction. abstractbook : pag. 21

8. Vanaverbeke, J., M. Steyaert, A. Vanreusel & M. Vincx. Nematode biomass spectra from different nematode communities and their significance for describing communities abstractbook : pag. 59

poster presentations :

9. Deprez, T., Van Der Steichel, P., Bonne, W., De Smet G., Steyaert, M., Vanaverbeke, J., Vanhove, S., Vanreusel, A., Wittoeck, J. & M. Vincx. TAXONLAN, a fully generic digital archive of species for biodiversity, morphology and taxonomy research. abstractbook : pag. 70

10. De Troch, M., Fiers, F. & M. Vincx. Effect of biogeographical isolation on marine biodiversity: a case-study with harpacticoid copepods in tropical seagrass beds. abstractbook : pag. 71

11. Gheskiere, T., Hoste, E., Vanaverbeke, J. & M. Vincx. Interactions between meiobenthic biodiversity (in casu Nematoda) and tourism on European sandy beaches abstractbook : pag. 77

12. Moens, T., Middelburg, J., Herman, P. & M. Vincx. Tracing organics matter sources of estuarine tidal flat nematodes with stable carbon isotopes. abstractbook : pag. 85

18-23 October 2001. Firenze, Italy. Beaches – What future ? An integrated approach to the Ecology and evolution of beaches and sand dunes. Two presentations :

1. Degraer, S., A. Volckaert & M. Vincx. 2001. Macrobenthic zonation patterns along a morphodynamical continuum of macrotidal, low tide bar/rip and ultra-dissiapative sandy beaches.

2. Gheskiere, T., F. Scapini & M. Vincx. 2001. Meiobenthic biodiversity of Italian sandy beaches with emphasis on the free-living marine nematodes.

9 november 2001, Ostend, Studiedag ‘Beheer van kust en zee: beleidsondersteunend onderzoek in Vlaanderen. presentation ‘Stranden, niet alleen voor toeristen’. Degraer, S., B. Beyst, A. Volckaert, A. De Backer, E. Hoste, T. Gheskiere & M. Vincx

2-4 december 2001, Brussels. European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy. ‘Scientific tools for biodiversity conservation: monitoring, modelling & experiments’. Presentation ‘Biodiversity in natural marine environments. Patterns, Functioning & conservation.’ M. Vincx.

14 december 2001, Brussel. Symposium georganiseerd door het Nationaal knooppunt voor het Verdrag inzake biologische diversiteit in het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, ‘Status en Trends van de Belgische fauna, met bijzondere aandacht voor exotische soorten’. Twee voordrachten : (1) A. Volckaert, H. Engledow, S. Degraer, M. Vincx, E. Coppejans & M. Hoffmann. De epilitische macrofauna en macrowieren van de harde substraten langs de Belgische Kust. (2) T. Gheskiere & M. Vincx. The biodiversity of the marine meiofauna (with emphasis on the free-living nematodes) from a Belgian sandy beach.

2002

10-18 januari 2002 : werkbezoek ESPOL – Guayaquil, Ecuador in het kader van de opvolging van het IUC

programma.

21-22 januari 2002 : Brussel, DWTC, Studiedagen ‘Duurzaam Beheer van de Noordzee’, met voordrachten

‘De structurele en functionele biodiversiteit van de Noordzee-ecosystemen’ (Vincx et al.) en.

‘Intensieve opvolging van een beschermd benthisch habitat’ (Degraer et al).

13 March 2002 : VLIZ Young Scientists’ Day

posterabstracts :

• Gheskiere Tom & M. Vincx, 2002 : Interactions between nematode biodiversity and anthropogenic disturbances on European sandy beaches.

• Hampel Henrietta, Andre Cattrijsse & M. Vincx, 2002. Changes in marsh nekton communities along the salinity gradient of the River Scheldt.

• Van Hoey Gert, S. Degraer & M. Vincx, 2002. The ecological importance of the tube building polychaete Lanice conchilega in the Abra alba – Mysella bidentata community.

• Verween Annick, S. Degraer & M. Vincx. 2002. Reducing the economic impact of an invasive bivalve, Mytilopsis leucophaeata, in the harbour of Antwerp.

• Volckaert A., H. Engledow, S. Degraer, M. Vincx, E. Coppejans & M. Hoffmann. 2002. Artificial hard substrates as ecosystems – a case-study of the Belgian coast.

18 March 2002 : Amsterdam : BIOMARE workshop for the preparation of a Network of Centers of excellence

in Marine Biodiversity.

24-30 March 2002 : ontvangst en begeleiding van de ESPOL delegatie (8 personen) ter voorbereiding van de

tweede fase van het IUC- project. Werkvergaderingen in de VLIR en Gent.

2-3 April 2002 : stage Marelac in Wimereux voor de cursus ‘Marine Biology’; 15 studenten (samen met

Sandra Vanhove en Frederik Leliaert).

14 June 2002 : Academische studiedag ‘De Vlaamse stranden: steriele zandbakken of natuurpatrimonium’ (5 jaar strand-natuurreservaat ‘De Baai van Heist’). Degraer S. & M. Vincx : ‘Onbekend is onbemind : de mariene fauna van Vlaamse stranden’.

24 September 2002 – 2 October 2002 : visit ESPOL : preparation Second Phase, Evaluation Mission first Phase,

17 November 2002 : CANVAS – TV : Dreiging onder de Evenaar (uitzending over de –VLIR- IUS activiteiten in ESPOL)

25-27 november 2002 , Brussel ; Deprez, T.; Wittoeck, J.; De Smet, G.; Vincx, M. (2002). NemasLan, MysidLan, TaxonLan: a story of database development: archiving marine species data for biodiversity, morphology and taxonomy research in a digital way. Pp 47 in Brown, M.; Costello, M.; Heip, C.; Levitus, S.; Mees, J.; Pissierssens, P.; Vanden Berghe, E. (Ed.): The Colour of Ocean Data: International Symposium on oceanographic data and information management, with special attention to biological data. Brussels, Belgium, 25-27 November 2002: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 11. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Oostende, Belgium.

27-29 november 2002 : Phaeocystis workshop (OSTC) Ostend. Presentation of the results : Vanavebeke et al…

13 December 2002 : TROPHOS Workshop II, Gent University

2003

9 – 16 August 2003 : ESPOL (Guayaquil) ; finances year 2002; preparation of visit of rector De Leenheer.

8 – 12 September 2003 : 38th European Marine Biology Symposium, Aveiro Portugal (not personally present), but following abstracts presented :

oral presentations :

Vanaverbeke, J., M. Steyaert, K. Soetaert & M. Vincx. Functional and structural diversity of nematode communities during sedimentation of a spring phytoplankton bloom in a sandy North Sea site.

Verween, A., S. Degraer & M. Vincx. Reducing the economic impact of an invasive bivalve Mytilopsis leucoiphaeata in the harbour of Antwerp.

Poster presentations :

Adao, H., M. Vincx & J.C. Marques. Seasonal dynamics of meiofauna communities in Zostera noltii Hornem sediments in the Mira estuary (SW Portugal).

De Mesel, I., P. Van Brussel, J. Vanaverbeke & M. Vincx. Influence of fluctuating environmentyal factors on the decomposition of cordgrass (Spartina anglica) and the associated nematode and bacterial community.

Derycke, S., T. Moens & M. Vincx. Genetic differentiation among coastal and estuarine populations of a free-living nematode in Belgium and The Netherlands.

Steyaert, M., J. Vanaverbeke, C. Barranguet, C. Lucas & M. Vincx. The importance of fine-scale vertical profiles for explaining intertidal nematode diversity: a case study from the Molenplaat (Westerschelde estuary (SW Netherlands)).

Van Hoey, G., H. Pelgrims, S. Degraer & M. Vincx. The effects of recruitment on the community parameters within the Abra alba – Mysella bidentata community on the Belgian Continental Shelf.

Vandendriessche, S., S. Degraer & M. Vincx. Ephemeral neustonic macrofaunal communities on floating seaweeds.

Vanquickelberghe, V., D. Cuvelier, J.C. Sorbe & M. Vincx. Bathymetric distribution of the Peracarida along two deep-sea transects down the European continental slope (Atlantic Ocean).

Wittoeck, J., S. Degraer, H. Hillewaert, R. Declerck & M. Vincx. Long-term trends of the macrobenthos of the Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS).

Franco, M. A., H.n. Cabral, R.Gamito, A. Rego, R. Tenreiro, L. Chambel, M.J. Costa, N. Smol & M. Vincx. Impact of discards of beam trawl fishing on free-living estuarine nematodes.

18 – 25 October 2003 : ESPOL (Guayaquil); preparation of Ap2004; official visit of rector De Leenheer

8-9 december 2003 : Galway, Ireland, selectioncommittee for Zoology Professorship at the University of Galway

2004

8-9 January 2004 : University of Evora (Portugal), Ph.D. defense of Helena Adao (M. VIncx co-promotor)

27 January 2004 : Prsentation for the Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetsnachppen, Brussel ‘Instituiotnele interuniversitaire samenwerking tussen de Vlaamse universiteiten en de Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL) in Ecuador (1999-2008).

15 – 21 February 2004 : visit ESPOL (AP2003 : final control and discussion about AP2004; Discussion about 500 euros scholarship)

17-19 March 2004 : General Assembly meeting of MARBEF (European Network of Excellences) in Bruges.

11 – 17 July 2004 : TWINCO – RAVENNA Italy : 12th International Meiofauna Conference

oral presentations :

S. Derycke, M. Vincx, T. Moens. Seasonal fluctuations in the population genetic structure of the

marine nematode Pellioditis marina

H. Gheerardyn, F. Fiers, M. De Troch, M. Vincx. A new genus of Laophontidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida), with seven new species and their adaptation to coralligene substrates.

A. Calles, M. Vincx, P. Cornejo, J. Calderon. Response of meiofauna composition (especially nematodes) to physical disturbance in Ecuadorian sandy beaches

I. De Mesel, S. Derycke, M. Vincx, J. Swings, T. Moens. Effect of bacterivorous nematodes on a bacterial community: a microcosm experiment

T. Moens, G.A. Paiva dos Santos, F. Thompson, J. Swings, V. da Fonsêca-Genevois, M. Vincx. The mucus-trap hypothesis revisited: are bacterial communities colonizing nematode tracks different from those in their environment?

J. Vanaverbeke, M. Steyaert, K. Soetaert, M. Vincx. Functional response of nematode communities during a spring phytoplankton bloom sedimentation in the Southern Bight of the North Sea

M. De Troch, L. Vandepitte, F. Fiers, M. Vincx. Effect of habitat fragmentation on meiofauna: colonisation experiments in a Mexican seagrass bed

T. Gheskiere, M. Vincx. Meio/nematofauna as sensitive indicators of change at touristic sandy beaches

M. Steyaert, L. Moodley, J. Vanaverbeke, K. Soetaert, M. Vincx. Laboratorial experiments on infaunal activity of meiofauna

M.H. Cornejo-Rodriguez, M. Vincx. Management practices in shrimp aquaculture in Ecuador: effects on the dynamics of the meiobenthic life

2005

30 januari 2005 – 7 februari 2005 : ESPOL – Guayaquil, Ecuador

17 Februari 2005 : Amsterdam, COSTAS workshop (voorbereiding EU project)

21 – 22 Februari 2005 : Amsterdam, SCC- MARBEF

16-18 Maart 2005 : Tavira (Portugal) : MARBEF Theme 2 workshop (gepresenteerd door Jan Vanaverbeke) :

Benthic processes and nematode community patterns at contrasting sites on the Belgican Continental Shelf : Jan Vanaverbeke, Leon Moodley, Maria Franco, Maaike Steyaert, Karline Soetaert & Magda Vincx.

19 – 23 Maart 2005 : Porto, MARBEF : SCC en GA

9 – 13 July 2005 : Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Society of Nematologists, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

invited presentation : Marine nematode ecosystems.

   

Publications

1979

1. Vincx, M. & C. Heip. Larval development and biology of Canuella perplexa T. & A. Scott, 1893 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida). Cah. Biol. Mar., XX, 281-289.

1981

2. Vincx, M. New and little known nematodes from the North Sea. Cah. Biol. Mar., XXII, 431-451.

1982

3. Sharma, J. & M. Vincx. Cyatholaimidae (Nematoda) from the Canadian Pacific Coast. Can. Journ. Zool., 60, 3, 271-280.

4. Heip, C., M. Vincx, N. Smol & G. Vranken. The systematics and ecology of marine free-living nematodes. Helminthological Abstracts, 51, 1, 1-31.

5. Vanosmael, C., K.A. Willems, D. Claeys, M. Vincx & C. Heip. The macrobenthos in a sublittoral sandbank in the North Sea. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K.,62, 521-534.

6. Willems, K.A., M. Vincx, D. Claeys, C. Vanosmael & C. Heip. The meiobenthos in a sublittoral sandbank in the North Sea. J.Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 62, 535-548.

7. Willems, K.A., C. Vanosmael, C., D. Claeys, M. Vincx & C. Heip. The benthos in a sublittoral sandbank in the North Sea: general considerations. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 62, 549-557.

8. Vranken, G., M. Vincx & L.K. Thielemans. The description of Monhystrella parelegantula (De Coninck) (Nematoda, Monhysterida), a free-living nematode species new for the Belgian coastal fauna. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea, 50, 93-103.

9. Vincx, M., J. Sharma & N. Smol. On the identity and nomenclature of "Paracanthonchus caecus (Bastian, 1865)" with a redefinition of the genus Paracanthonchus Micoletzky, 1924. Zoologica Scripta, 11, 4, 243-263.

1983

10. Vincx, M. Redescription and ontogenetic study of Desmodora schulzi Gerlach, 1950. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea, 12, 4, 237-244.

11. Heip, C., R. Herman & M. Vincx. Subtidal meiofauna of the North Sea: A review. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea, 51, 116-170.

1984

12. Vincx, M. & A. Coomans. Daptonema williamsi sp.n. (Nematoda, Xyalidae) from the Solomon Islands. Zool. Scripta, 12, 4, 237-244.

13. Heip, C., R. Herman & M. Vincx. Variability and productivity of meiobenthos in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Rapp.P.-v. Réun. Cons.int.Explor.Mer, 183, 51-56.

14. Soetaert, K. C. Heip & M. Vincx. Meiofauna of a deep-sea transect off Corsica. Ann. Soc. r. Zool. Belg., 114, 323-324 (abstract).

15. Vincx, M., G. Vranken & C. Heip. Marine nematodes as indicators in ecological monitoring and bio-assays. Proc. first Intern. Cong. Nematology, Guelph (Canada): 110.

1985

16. Herman, R., M. Vincx & C. Heip. Benthic studies of the Southern Bight of the North Sea and its adjacent continental estuaries. IV. Meiofauna of the Belgian Coastal Waters: Spatial and Temporal variability and productivity. In: Heip & Polk (eds) Concerted Actions Oceanography. Final Report Vol.3: Biological processes and Translocations, Ministry of Scientific Policy, Brussels, Belgium, 41-63.

17. Vanosmael, C., K.A. Willems, M. Vincx, D. Claeys & C. Heip. Benthos of the Kwinte Bank (An exploited sandbank in the Southern Bight). In: Heip & Polk (eds) Concerted Actions Oceanography. Final Report Vol.3: Biological processes and Translocations, Ministry of Scientific Policy, Brussels, Belgium, 65-79.

18. Coomans, A., M. Vincx & W. Decraemer. Nematodes from a fresh-water pool on a coral island in the Solomon Islands. Hydrobiologia, 123, 265-281.

19. Gourbault, N. & M. Vincx. Deux espèces nouvelles d'Ironidae marins; observations sur les spermatozoïdes flagellés des Nématodes. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 4 sér., 7A, 109-118.

20. Gourbault, N. & M. Vincx. Nématodes abyssaux (Campagne Walda du N/O "Jean Charcot"). VI. Le genre Acantholaimus: espèces nouvelles et étude de l'appareil reproducteur a spermatozoïdes géants. Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat., Paris, 4 sér., 7A, 611-632.

21. Gourbault, N. & M. Vincx. Nématodes abyssaux (Campagne Walda du N/O "Jean Charcot"). V. Espèces nouvelles de Selachinematidae dépourvues d'anus. Cah. biol. Mar., 26, 87-97.

22. Heip,C., M. Vincx & G. Vranken. The ecology of marine nematodes. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev., 23, 399-489.

23. Heip, C., O. Hamerlynck, P. Herman, R. Huys, M. Vincx & G. Vranken. Meiobenthos in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. In: Van Grieken & Wollast (eds.): Progress in Belgian Oceanographic Research' Brussels, March, 1985, 264-266.

24. Vanreusel, A. & M. Vincx. A preliminary study of the nematodes in the Bay of Calvi, Corsica. In: Van Grieken & Wollast (eds.) Progress in Belgian Oceanographic Research', Brussels, March, 1985, 460-463.

25. Soetaert, K., C; Heip & M. Vincx. Meiofauna of a deep-sea transect off Corsica. In: Van Grieken & Wollast (eds.): Progress in Belgian Oceanographic Research' Brussels, March, 1985, 464-466.

1986

26. Vanreusel, A. & M. Vincx. Four new species of the genus Perepsilonema Lorenzen, 1973 (Nematoda, Epsilonematidae) from the Bay of Calvi (Corsica, Mediterranean). Hydrobiologia, 134, 151-169. (SCI : 0.576)

27. Vranken, G., P.M.J. Herman, M. Vincx & C. Heip. A re-evaluation of marine nematode productivity. Hydrobiologia, 135, 193-196.

28. Vincx, M. Free-living nematodes from the Southern Bight of the North Sea. I. Notes on species of the genera Gonionchus Cobb, 1920, Neochromadora Micoletzky, 1924 and Sabatieria Rouville, 1903. Hydrobiologia, 140, 255-286.

29. Gourbault, N. & M. Vincx. Nématodes marins de Guadeloupe. V. Lauratonema spiculifer Gerlach, 1959; description du système reproducteur des Lauratonematidae. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 4 sér., 8, 789-801.

1987

30. Soetaert, K. & M. Vincx. Six new Richtersia species (Nematoda: Selachinematidae) from the Mediterranean. Zool. Scr., 16, 2, 125-142.

31. Vincx, M. & C. Heip. The use of meiobenthos in pollution monitoring studies. A review. ICES, CM/E33, 1-18.

1988

32. Furstenberg, J.P. & M. Vincx. Procamacolaimus tubifer Gerlach, 1953, Procamacolaimus africanus sp.nov. and Eontolaimus capensis gen.nov., sp.nov. (Nematoda, Leptolaimidae) from South Africa. S. Afr. J. Zool.,23(3),208-214.

33. Furstenberg, J.P. & M. Vincx. Three new Chromadoropsis species (Nematoda, Desmodoridae) from Southern Africa and the North Sea. S. Afr. J. Zool., 23(3), 215-223.

34. Gourbault N. & M. Vincx. Calomicrolaimus compridus (Gerlach, 1956) b., a marine nematode with a female producing a copulatory plug. Revue de Nématologie, 11(1), 39-43.

35. Soetaert, K. & M. Vincx. Spirobolbolaimus bathyalis gen.nov., sp.nov. (Nematoda, Microlaimidae) from the Mediterranean (Calvi). Hydrobiologia, 164, 33-38.

36. Vincx, M. & J.P. Furstenberg. Africanema interstitialis gen.nov., sp.nov., a species which indicates the relationship between the Trefusiidae (Halanonchinae) and the Tripyloididae. Stygologia,4(1),10-16.

37. Vincx, M. & J.P. Furstenberg. Three new Xyalidae species from Southern Africa, with a redefinition of the genus Xyala Cobb, 1920. Cah. Biol. mar. 29, 497-512.

38. Vincx, M. & N. Gourbault. Two new species of Morlaixia gen.n. (Nematoda, Diplopeltidae) with a subterminal ventral mouth. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 4° serie, 10, 711-718.

1989

39. Furstenberg, J.P. & M. Vincx. Two Oncholaimid species from a South African Estuary (Nematoda, Oncholaimidae). Hydrobiologia, 184, 43-50.

40. Vanreusel, A. & M. Vincx. Notes on some nematode species of the Southern Bight of the North Sea. III. Species of the Monoposthiidae, Filipjev, 1934. Cah. Biol. mar., 30, 69-83. (SCI : 0.373)

41. Vincx, M. Seasonal fluctuations and production of nematode communities in the Belgian coastal zone of the North Sea. Verh. Symp."Invertebraten van België", 57-66.

42. Vincx, M., Free-living marine nematodes in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Academiae Analecta, 51, 1, 37-70.

43. Vincx, M. & J. P. Furstenberg. Namibnema papillata gen.nov., sp.nov., and Axonolaimus deconincki sp.nov. (Nematoda, Axonolaimoidea) from Southern African marine and estuarine beaches. Zoologica Scripta, 18(2), 231-239.

44. Vincx, M. & N. Gourbault. Desmodoridae from the Bay of Morlaix (Brittany) and the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Cah. Biol. mar., 30, 103-114.

45. Vincx, M. & R. Herman. 1989. The influence of the Western Scheldt on the meiobenthos of the Belgian coastal area. In: Progress in Belgian oceanographic Research, Proceedings of the North Sea Symposium, Gent. ed. Pichot, 283-296.

46. Vincx, M. & A. Vanreusel. 1989. Freeliving marine nematodes from the Southern Bight of the North Sea. II. Notes on species of the Trefusiidae Gerlach, 1966. Hydrobiologia, 175, 213-221. (SCI: 0.576)

1990

47. Belgrano, A., M. Vincx, J.M. Dewarumez, A. Richard, J. Craeymeersch & C. Heip. Recruitment of meroplanktonic larvae in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Oceanis, 16, 3, 225-243.

48. Gourbault, N. & M. Vincx. Chromadorida (Nematoda) from Guadeloupe and Polynesia with evidence of intersexuality. Zoologica Scripta, 19, 1, 31-37.

49. Gourbault, N. & M. Vincx. Two new species of brood protecting Desmodoridae (Nematoda) from Guadeloupe. Nematologica, 36, 131-143.

50. Heip, C., R. Huys, M. Vincx, A. Vanreusel, N. Smol, R. Herman & P.M.J. Herman. Meiofauna: distribution, composition, biomass and production. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research, 26, 333-342. (SCI : 1.518)

51. Vincx, M. Diversity of the nematode communities in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Netherlands Journal of Sea research, 25, 181-188.

52. Vincx, M., P. Meire & C. Heip. 1990. The distribution of nematode communities in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Cah. Biol. mar., 31, 107-129.

1991

53. Dewarumez, J.M., Belgrano, A., Craeymeersch, J.A., Duquesnes, S., Heip, C., Hilde, D. & M. Vincx. 1991. Influence de la circulation des masses d'eaux dans la dynamique du peuplement a Abra alba de la Baie Sud de la Mer du Nord. Acte du Colloque'Le Littoral, ses constraintes environnementales et ses conflits d'utilisation, Société de France d'Ecologie, Nantes, 73-78.

54. Schrijvers, J. & M. Vincx. 1991. An ecological study of the benthos of mangroves and surrounding beaches at Gazi Bay, Kenya. Abstract. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 42.

55. Smol, N., R. Huys & M. Vincx. 1991. A 4-years analysis of the meiofauna community of a dumping site for TiO2-waste off the Dutch coast. Chemistry & Ecology, 5, 197-215.

56. Soetaert, K., C. Heip & M. Vincx, 1991. The meiobenthos along a Mediterranean deep-sea transect off Calvi (Corsica) and in an adjacent canyon. P.S.Z.N.I. Mar. Ecol., 12(3): 227-242.

57. Soetaert, K., Heip, C. & M. Vincx. 1991. Diversity of nematode assemblages along a Mediterranean deep-sea transect. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 75, 275-282.

58. Vanreusel, A. & M. Vincx. 1991. The factors structuring the meiobenthos communities in the shelf break area in the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic). Abstract. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 49.

59. Rees, H.L., Heip, C., Vincx, M. & M.M. Parker. 1991. Benthic communities: use in monitoring point-source discharges. ICES Techniques in Marine Environmental Sciences No., 16, 70pp.

1992

59. Chen, G.T., Vincx M. & C. Heip, 1992. Study on ecological monitoring using meiobenthos in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Marine Science Bulletin, 11(5):54-58.

60. Furstenberg, J.P. & M. Vincx, 1992. Two new species of the family Microlaimidae (Nematoda, Chromadorida) from South africa). Cah. Biol. mar., 33, 245-251.

61. Gourbault, N. & M. Vincx 1992. Neotonchinae de la Baie de Morlaix (Nematoda, Chromadorida). Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris, 4°sér., 14, section A, n° 2: 449-455.

62. Vanhove, S., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke, W. Gijselinck & D. Schram. 1992. The meiobenthos of five mangrove vegetation types in Gazi Bay, Kenya. Hydrobiologia, 247, 99-108.

63. Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke & W. Gijselinck. 1992. Structural analysis of the meiobenthos communities of the shelf break area in two stations of the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic). Belg. J. Zool., 122, 2, 185-202. (SCI : 0.308)

64. Verschelde, D. & M. Vincx, 1992. Freeliving marine nematodes from East African coasts. Bathyepsilonema anulosum sp.n. and Leptepsilonema richardi sp.n.. Hydrobiologia, 239, 179-186.

65. Vincx, M. & N. Gourbault, 1992. Six new species of the genus Diplopeltula (Nematoda: Diplopeltidae) with remarks on the heterogeneity of the taxon. Hydrobiologia, 230, 165-178.

66. Gee, J.M., M. Austen, G. De Smet, T. Ferraro, A. McEvoy, S. Moore, D. Van Gansbeke, M. Vincx & R.M. Warwick. 1992. Soft sediment meiofauna community responses to environmental pollution gradients in the German Bight and at a drilling site off the Dutch coast. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 91, 289-302.

1993

67. Furstenberg, J.P. & M. Vincx, 1993. Five new species of the family Ceramonematidae (Nematoda, Chromadorida) from South Africa. Nematologica, 39, 139-152.

68. Verschelde, D. & M. Vincx , 1993. Polkepsilonema mombasae gen. et sp.n. and Pternepsilonema servaesae gen. et sp.n. (Nematoda, Epsilonematidae) from East African coasts. Hydrobiologia, 257, 129-142.

69. Dewarumez, J.M., Belgrano, A., Craeymeersch, J.A., Duquesne, S., C. Heip, D. Hilde & M. Vincx. 1993. Influence de la circulation des masses d'eaux dans la dynamique du peuplement a Abra alba de la Baie Sud de la Mer du Nord. J. Rech. Oceanogr., 18, 1-4.

70. Li Jian & M. Vincx. (1993). The temporal distribution of intertidal nematodes in the Westerschelde. I. The importance of an estuarine gradient. Neth. J. Aquatic Ecol.,27(2-4),319-326.

71. Verschelde, D. & M. Vincx (1993). Draconematidae (Nematoda, Draconematoidea) from East African Coast. Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetnschappen, Biologie, 63, 35-53.

1994

72. Verschelde, D. & M. Vincx 1994. Epsilonematidae (Nematoda, Desmodoroidea) from the East African coast, with a discussion on the external morphology of cuticular appendages. Nematologica, 40, 78-105.

73. Bett, B.J., Vanreusel, M., Vincx, M., Soltwedel, T., Pfannkuche, O., P.J.D. Lambshead, A.J. Gooday, T. Ferrero & A. Dinet. (1994). Sampler bias in the quantitative study of deep-sea meiobenthos. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 104, 197-203. (SCI : 2.038)

74. Gourbault, N. & M. Vincx. 1994. New species of Parapinnanema (Nematode, Chromadoridae) are described, with a discussion of the genus. Aust. J. Mar. Freshwater Res., 45, 141-159.

75. Soetaert, K., M. Vincx, J. Wittoeck, M. Tulkens & D. Van Gansbeke. 1994. Spatial patterns of Westerschelde meiobenthos. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 39, 367-388.

76. Vincx, M., B.J. Bett, A. Dinet, T. Ferrero, A.J. Gooday, P.J.D. Lambshead, O. Pfannkuche, T. Soltwedel & A. Vanreusel. 1994. Meiobenthos of the deep northeast Atlantic. Advances in Marine Biology, 30, 1-88. (SCI:3.4)

77. Danovaro, R., J. Mees & M. Vincx. 1994. Annual dynamics of a meiobenthic community of the Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean): preliminary results. Atti del 10° Congresso A.I.O.L., Alassio 4-6 Novembre 1992, 295-305.

1995

78. Arellano, R.V., O. Hamerlynck, M. Vincx, J. Mees, K. Hostens & W. Gijselinck. 1995. Changes in the ratio of the sulcus acusticus area to the sagitta area of Pomatoschistus minutus and P. lozanoi (Pisces, Gobioidea). Marine Biology, 122, 355-360.

79. Danovaro,R., M. Fabiano & M. Vincx. 1995. Meiofauna response to the Agip Abruzzo oil Spill in subtidal sediments of the Ligurian Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 30, 133-145.

80. Vanhove, S., Moens, T. Vierstraete, A., M. Beghyn & M. Vincx. 1995. A simple method for the assessment of oxygen consumption by nematodes - adaptations to lower temperatures? Abstract. Nematologica, 41, 3, p. 351.

81. Verschelde, D. & M. Vincx. 1995. Character description and analysis for phylogenetic relationships in Desmodoroidea. Abstract. Nematologica, 41, 3, p. 352.

82. Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, B.J. Bett, A.L. Rice. (1995). Nematode biomass spectra at two abyssal sites in the NE Atlantic with contrasting food supply. Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie, vol 80, nr. 2, 287-296. (SCI: 0.753)

83. Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Schram & D. Van Gansbeke. 1995. On the vertical distribution of the metazoan meiofauna in shelf break and upper slope habitats of the NE Atlantic. Internationale Revue der Gesameten Hydrobiologie, vol. 80, nr.2, 313-326. (SCI : 0.753)

84. Schrijvers, J., Van Gansbeke D. & M. Vincx (1995). Macrobenthic infauna of mangroves and surrounding beaches at Gazi Bay, Kenya. Hydrobiologia, 306, 53-66.

85. Vanhove, S., J. Wittoeck, G. De Smet, B. Van den Berghe, R.L. Herman, R.P.M. Bak, G. Nieuwland, J.H. Vosjan, A. Boldrin, S. Rabitti & M. Vincx. 1995. Deep-sea meiofauna communities in Antarctica : structural analysis and relation with the environment. Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol.127, 65-76.

86. Verschelde, D. & M. Vincx, 1995. Psammonema gen.n. and Pseudochromadora Daday, 1889 (Nematoda, Desmodoridae) from sandy sediments of Gazi, Kenya. Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, Biologie, 65, 1-39.

87. Verschelde, D., A. Muthumbi, M. Vincx, 1995. Papillonema danieli gen. et sp.n. and Papillonema clavata (Gerlach, 1957) comb.n. from the Ceriops mangrove sediments of Gazi Bay, Kenya. Hydrobiologia, 316,3, 225-237.

88. Schrijvers, J. J. Okondo, M. Steyaert & M. Vincx, 1995. Influence of epibenthos on meiobenthos of the Ceriops tagal mangrove sediment at Gazi Bay, Kenya. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 128, 247-259.

89. Muthumbi, A., D. Verschelde & M. Vincx. 1995. New Desmodoridae (Nematode:Desmodoroidea): three new species from Ceriops mangrove sediments (Kenya) and one related new species from the North Sea. Cah. Biol. Mar., 36, 181-195.

90. Danovaro, R., Fraschetti S., Belgrano A., Vincx, M., Curini-Galletti, M., Albertelli G. & M. Fabiano. 1995. The potential impact of meiofauna on the recruitment of macrobenthos in a subtidal coastal benthic community of the Ligurian Sea (north-western Mediterranean): a field result. In: Biology and Ecology of shallow Coastal waters. Proceedings of the 28th Euroepan Marine Biology Symposium, Iraklio, Crete, 1993. Olsen & Olsen, Fredensborg, 1995, 115-122.

91. Soetaert, K., Vincx, M., Wittoeck, J. & M. Tulkens. 1995. Meiobenthic distribution and nematode community structure of five European estuaries. Hydrobiologia, 311, 185-206.

92. Soetaert, K., M. Vincx & C. Heip. Nematode community structure along a mediterranean shelf-slope gradient. P.S.Z.N.I. Marine Ecology, 16,

1996

93. Verschelde, D. & M. Vincx, 1996. Four new species of the family Desmodoridae (Nematoda, Desmodoroidea) from Kenya. Zoologica Scripta, 25,1,1-20.

94. Vincx, M. 1996. Book review of 'Lorenzen. The phylogenetic systematics of freeliving nematodes'. Fundam. appl. Nematol.,19(1), 107.

95. Moens, T., Vierstraete, A., Vanhove S., Mattias Verbeke & M. Vincx. 1996. A handy method for measuring meiobenthic respiration. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 197, 177-190.

96. Schrijvers, J. Fermon H. & M. Vincx.1996. Resource competition between macrobenthic epifauna and infauna in a Kenyan Avicennia marina mangrove forest. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 136, 123-135.

97. Vincx, M., A. Dewicke, J. Mees, M. Steyaert, D. Van Gansbeke. 1996. Benthos of the North Sea : recovery or desperately lost. In 'Dialogue between Scientists and Users of the Sea, Proceedings of a symposium on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the civil oceanographic research vessel BELGICA, Ostend, 17-19 October 1994; publ. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, Brussels, 1996, 33-42.

98. Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, B. Bett & A. Rice. 1996 (abstract). The meiobenthos of two abyssal sites in the NE Atlantic with a presumed cantrasting food supply. In 'Dialogue between Scientists and Users of the Sea, Proceedings of a symposium on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the civil oceanographic research vessel BELGICA, Ostend, 17-19 October 1994; publ. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, Brussels, 1996, pag. 277.

99. Moens, T., A. Vierstraete & M. Vincx. 1996. Life strategies in two bacterivorous marine nematodes : preliminary results. P.S.Z.N.I. Marine Ecology, 17, 1-3, 509-518.

100. Vincx, M. 1996. Meiofauna in marine and freshwater sediments. In : CAB International. Methods for the Examination of Organismal Diversity in Soils and Sediments. Ed. G.S. Hall, ISBN 0 85199 149 1, 187-195

101. Moens, T., L. De Neve, A. Boone, D. Verschelde & M. Vincx. 1996. Localized adaptations to the abiotic factors temperature and salinity in the marine nematode Pellioditis marine Andrassy, 1983. In: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Young Scientists of the Benelux, Third Benelux Congress of Zoology, Namur, 1996. , abstract, p. 9

102. Lee Hee Joong, S. Vanhove & M. Vincx.. 1996. Recolonisation of meiofauna in an iceberg scour area at the coast of Signy Island, Antarctica. In: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Young Scientists of the Benelux, Third Benelux Congress of Zoology, Namur, 1996. , abstract, p. 20.

103. Vanhove, S. & M. Vincx.. 1996. Meiobenthic diversity in the Weddell Sea: adaptation to the environmental conditions of Antarctica? In: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Young Scientists of the Benelux, Third Benelux Congress of Zoology, Namur, 1996. , abstract, p. 20.

104. Li Jian, M. Vincx & P. Herman. 1996. A model of nematode community dynamics in the Westerschelde estuary. Ecological Modelling., 90 (3) 271-284

105. Muthumbi A. & M. Vincx, 1996. Nematodes from the Indian Ocean: description of six new species of the genus Molgolaimus Ditlevsen, 1921. Bull. van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, 66, 17-28.

106. Elliot, B., S. Degraer, M. Bursey & M. Vincx. 1996. Intertidal zonation of macroinfauna on a dissipative, sandy becah at De Panne (Belgium): a pilot study. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea, 64, 92-108.

107. Vincx, M., Dewicke, A., Fockedey N., Mees, J. & M. Steyaert. 1996. The Benthic food path. In: Progress in Belgian Oceanographic Research, Royal Academy of Belgium, 179 – 182.

108. Vanreusel A. & M. Vincx. 1996. The structuring role of foof for meiobenthos: a comparison of two abyssal sites in the NE Atlantic. In: Progress in Belgian Oceanographic Research, Royal Academy of Belgium, 171 – 173.

109. Steyaert, M. & M. Vincx. 1996. The vertical distribution of meiobenthos in coastal sediments (Belgium). In: Progress in Belgian Oceanographic Research, Royal Academy of Belgium, 155 – 157.

110. Moens, T. & M. Vincx. 1996. Do meiofauna consume primary production ? About many question and how to answer them. In: Integrated marine system analysis. Eds : Baeyens, Dehairs & Goeyens. VUBpress. 188-202.

1997

Moens, T. & M. Vincx. 1997. Observations on the feeding ecology of estuarine nematodes. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K. 77, 211-227.

Jian Li, M. Vincx, P.M. Herman & C. Heip. 1997. Monitoring meiobenthos using cm-, m- and km- scales in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Marine Environmental Research, vol 43, 4, 265-278.

Jian Li, M. Vincx & P.M.J. Herman, 1997. Carbon flows through meiobenthic nematodes in the Westerschelde Estuary. Fundamental and Applied Nematology, 20 (5), 487-494.

Muthumbi, A., Soetaert K. & M. Vincx, 1997. Deep-sea nematodes from the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean sea: new and known species of the family Comesomatidae. Hydrobiologia, 346, 25-57.

Muthumbi, A. & M. Vincx. 1997. Acantholaimus (Chromadoridae:Nematoda) from the Indian Ocean: description of seven species. Hydrobiologia, 346, 59-76.

Schrijvers, J., R. Schallier, J. Silence, J.PK. Okondo & M. Vincx. 1997. Interactions between epibenthos and meiobenthos in a high intertidal Avicennia marina mangrove forest. Mangroves and Salt Marshes, 1, 137-154.

Schrijvers, J. & M. Vincx. 1997. Cage experiments in manrgove forests: a case study. (Neth.) J. Sea Research, 38, 123-133.

Vanhove,S., Wittoeck, J;, Van Gansbeke, D., Van Kenhove, A., Coomans, A. & M. Vincx. ,1997. Rôle of the meiobenthos in Antarctic ecosystems. In : Belgian Research Programme on the Antarctic. Scientific Results of Phase III (1992-1996). Volume I. Marine Biogeochemistry and ecodynamics. Ed. S. Caschetto, Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, Belgium, 59 pp.

Moens, T. & M. Vincx. 1997. A state of the art on meiofaunal respiration and production. In: Dehairs,

F.,M. Elskens & L. Goeyens (eds). ENIMSA II., 347-361. VUBpress.

Van Biesen Leo, Patrice T.K. Yamba, Zobeida Cisneros, Luc Peirlinckx, Tesfazghi Ghebreegziabeher, Michelle Tackx, Francisco Torres, Patrick Roose, Humberto Gomez, Stanisla Wartel & Magda Vincx. 1997. Development of a marine G.I.S. with the view on the moniotring and modelling of the Guayas estuary and the Estero Salado in Ecuador. Oceanis, 1997, Workshop, Nice (France).

Degraer, S., M. Vincx, P. Meire & H. Offringa. 1997. Community structure of the macrobenthos of an important, Belgian wintering area for the Common scoter (Melanitta nigra). Biol. JB. Dodonaea, abstract, 65, 136-137.

Vanhove, S. & M. Vincx. 1997. Meiobenthic seasonality in a near-shore marine sediment at Antarctica. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea, abstract, 65, 195-196.

Steyaert, M., T. Moens, S. Cattaert, M. Vincx. 1997. Patterns and causes of spatial heterogeneity in abundance and diversity of meiofauna in a tidal flat system. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea, abstract, 65, 175.

1998

Verschelde, D., N. Gourbault & M. Vincx. 1998. Revision of Desmodora with descriptions of new desmodorids (Nematoda) from hydrothermal vents of the Pacific. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 78, 75-112.

Vanhove, S., Lee, H.J., Beghyn, M., Van Gansbeke, D., Brockington, S. & M. Vincx. 1998. The Metazoan meiofauna in its biogeochemical environment: the case of an Antarctic coastal sediment.

J.Mar.Biol.Ass.U.K., 78, 411-434.

Schrijvers, J., M.G. Camargo, R. Pratiwi, M.Vincx. 1998. The infaunal macrobenthos under East African Ceriops tagal mangroves impacted by epibenthos. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 222, 175-193.

Moens, T. & M. Vincx. 1998. On the cultivation of free-living marine and estuarine nematodes. Helgoländer Meeresunters., 52, 115-139

Chen Guotong & M. Vincx. 1998. Nematodes from the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel (Chile) : description of four new species of the Comesomatidae. Hydrobiologia, 379, 97-110.

Gurdebeke, S., De Troch, M., F. Fiers & M. Vincx. 1998. Community structure of meiobenthos in an intertidal seagrass bed (Gazi Bay, Kenya): effect of habitat complexity on diversity. Abstract, Belg. J. Zool., p.29.

Bonne, W., De Troch, M., Fiers F. & M. Vincx. 1998. Harpacticoid copepods associated with the seagrass Halodule wrightii Ascherson: spatial and taxonomic-hierarchical aspects of biodiversity. Abstract. Belg. J. Zool., P. 19.

De Troch, M., Fiers, F. & Vincx, M., 1998. Global and regional patterns of biodiversity: meiofauna (Harpacticoid copepods) in tropical seagrass beds. Abstractbook of the Tenth International Meiofauna Conference (XIMCO) (Plymouth, U.K., July 27-31, 1998). p.49.

Muthumbi, A. and Vincx, M., 1998. Chromadoridae (Chromadorida: Nematoda) from the Indian Ocean: Description of new and known species. Hydrobiologia 364 , 119-153

Muthumbi, A. and Vincx, M., 1998. Chromadoridae (Chromadorida: Nematoda) from the Indian Ocean: Difficulties in morphological identification of Actinonema Cobb, 1920 and Rhips Cobb, 1920. Hydrobiologia 364 , 155-167

1999

Bonne, W., De Troch, M. Fiers, F. & M. Vincx. 1999. Abstract poster presentation. Anthropogenic effects on biodiversity of harpacticoid copepods associated with the seagrass Halodule wrightii Ascherson. Seventh Int. Congr. Copepoda (ICOC, Curitiba, Brazil). P.65.

Chen, Guotong & M. Vincx. 1999. Nematodes from the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel (Chile): the genus Sabatieria (Comesomatidae: Nematoda) with the description of Sabatieria coomansi n.sp. Hydrobiologia, 405, 95-116.

Chen, G. R.L. Herman & M. Vincx. 1999. Meiofauna communities from the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel. Sci.Mar., 63 (supl.1), 123-132.

De Troch, M., Gurdebeke, S., Fiers, F. & Vincx, M., 1999. Biogeography and biodiversity of copepods: a case study with benthic and epiphytic harpacticoids in tropical seagrass beds. Abstractbook of the Seventh International Congress on Copepoda (ICOC, Curitiba, Brazil, July 25-31, 1999). p. 92

De Troch, M., Van Bockhaven, W., Fiers F. & M. Vincx. 1999. Third leg sexual dimorphism: a guide to unravel the systematics of the east African Enhydrosoma species (Harpacticoida: Cletodidae). Abstract , Abstractbook of the Seventh International Congress on Copepoda (ICOC, Curitiba, Brazil, July 25-31, 1999). p. 93

Degraer, S. I. Mouton, L. De Neve & M. Vincx. 1999. Intertidal zonation and community structure of the macrobenthos on a macrotidal, ultra-dissipative sandy beach : summer-winter comparison. Estuaries, 22,3B,742-752.

Degraer, S., M. Vincx, P. Meire & H. Offringa. 1999. The macrozoobenthos of an important wintering area of the common scoter (Melanitta nigra). Journal Marine Biology Association (U.K.) , 79, 243-251.

Janssens, T., De Troch, M., Cornejo, M.-H., Calderón, J. & Vincx, M., 1999. The effect of shrimp farming on meiobenthic communities in the Gulf of Guayaquil (Ecuador). Abstract book of the Sixth Benelux Congress of Zoology (Utrecht, The Netherlands, November 19-20, 1999). p. 66

Moens, T., D. Van Gansbeke & M. Vincx. 1999. Linking estuarine nematodes to their suspected food. A case study from the Westerschelde Estuary (south-west Netherlands). J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 79, 1017-1027.

Moens, T., L. Verbeeck & M. Vincx. 1999. Feeding biology of a predatory and a facultative predatory nematode (Enoploides longispiculosus and Adoncholaimus fuscus) Marine Biology, 134: 585-593.

Moens, T., L. Verbeeck & M. Vincx. 1999. Preservation- and incubation time-induced bias in tracer-aided grazing studies on meiofauna. Marine Biology 133, 69-77.

Moens, T., L. Verbeeck, A. De Mayer, J. Swings & M. Vincx. 1999. Selective recruitment of marine bacterivorous nematodes to their bacterial food. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 176, 165-178.

Muthumbi, A. & M. Vincx. 1999. Microlaimidae (Desmodorida : Nematoda) from the Indian Ocean: Description of nine new and known species. Hydrobiologia, 397, 39-58.

Steyaert, M., N. Garner, D. Van Gansbeke & M. Vincx., 1999. Nematode communities from the North Sea: environmental controls on species diversity and vertical distribution within the sediment. Journal Marine Biology Association (U.K.), 79, 253-264.

Vanhove, S., W. Arntz & M. Vincx. 1999. Comparative study of the nematode communities on the southeastern Weddell Sea shelf and slope (Antarctica). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 181, 237-256.

Seys, J., Vincx, M. & P. Meire. 1999. Spatial distribution of oligochaetes (Clitellata) in the tidal freshwater and brackish parts of the Schelde estuary (Belgium). Hydrobiologia, 406, 119-132.

Tita, G., M. Vincx & G. Desrosiers. 1999. Size spectra, body width and morphotypes of intertidal nematodes: an ecological interpretation. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 79, 1007-1015.

2000

Tita, G., G. Desrosiers, M. Vincx & C. Nozais. 2000. Predation and sediment disturbance effects of the intertidal polychaete Nereis virens (Sars) on associated meiofauna assemblages. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 243, 261-282.

Moens, T. & M. Vincx. 2000. Temperature and salinity constraints on the life cycle of two brackish-water nematode species. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 243, 115-135.

Moens, T. & M. Vincx. 2000. Temperature, salinity and food tresholds in two brackish-water bacterivorous nematode species: assessing niches from food absorption and respiration experiments. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 243, 137-154.

Chen Guotong & M. Vincx. 2000. Nematodes from the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel (Chile): the genera Cervonema and Laimella (Comesomatidae: Nematoda). Hydrobiologia, 427, 27-49.

De Troch, M., F. Fiers & M. Vincx . 2000. Range extension and microhabitat of Lightiella incisa (Cephalocarida). Journal of Zoology. London, 251, 199-201.

Tita, G., G. Desrosiers & M. Vincx. 2000. New type of hand-held corer for meiofaunal sampling and vertical profile investigation: a comparative study. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K., 80, 171-172.

Vanreusel, A., Clough, L., Jacobsen, K., Ambrose, W. J. Jivaluk, V. Ryheul, R. Herman & M. Vincx. 2000. Meiobenthos of the Central Arctic Ocean with special emphasis on the nematode community structure. Deep-Sea Research I, 47, 1855-1879. (SCI 1.417)

Kröncke, I., A. Vanreusel, M. Vincx, J. Wollenburg, A. Mackensen, G. Liebezeit & B. Behrends. 2000. Different benthic size-compartments and their relationship to sediment chemistry in the deep Eurasian Arctic Ocean. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 199, 31-41.

Chen Guo Tong & M. Vincx. 2000. New and little known Nematodes (Monhysteroida, Nematoda) from the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel (Chile). Hydrobiologia, 429, 9-23.

Degraer, S., Van Lancker, V., Moerkerke, G., Vincx, M., Jacobs, P. & J.P. Henriet. 2000. Research project: Intensive evaluation of the evolution of a protected benthic habitat: HABITAT. ICES report, Study Group on Marine Habitat Mapping, 9 pags.

Deudero S. & M. Vincx, 2000. Sublittoral meiobenthic assemblages from disturbed and non-disturbed sediments in the Balearics. Scientia Marina, 64 (3), 285-293.

De Troch, M., F. Fiers, & M. Vincx. 2000. Island-role of seagrass species in a tropical seagrass bed: effects on diversity and ecological range size of harpacticoid copepods. Abstract. In: Aquatic habitats as ecological islands. Plymouth, sept. 2000, pag. 67.

Moens, T., P. Herman, L. Verbeeck, M. Steyaert & M. Vincx. 2000. Predation rates and prey selectivity in two predacious estuarine nematode species. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 205, 185-193.

Vanhove, S., Beghyn, M., Van Gansbeke, D., L.W. Bullough & M. Vincx. 2000. A seasonally varying biotope at Signy Island, Antarctic: implications for meiofaunal structure. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 202, 13-25.

Deprez, T., Mees, J., Wooldridge, T. & M. Vincx. 2000. Mysidlan: a multifunctional taxonomical database. 7th Benelux Congress of Zoology, Brussels, 24-25 November 2000. abstract p.13.

Vanaverbeke, J., T. Gheskiere & M. Vincx. 2000. The meiobenthos of subtidal sandbanks on the Belgian Continental shelf (Southern Bight of the North Sea). Est.Coastal Shelf Science, 51, 637-649.

Moodley, L., Chen Guo Tong, C. Heip & M. Vincx. 2000. Vertical distribution of meiofauna in sediments from contrasting sites in the Adriatic Sea: clues to the role of abiotic versus biotic control. Ophelia.53, 3, 203-212.

2001

De Troch, M. , F. Fiers & M. Vincx. 2001. Alpha and beta diversity of harpacticoid copepods in a tropical seagrass bed : the relation between diversity and species’range size distribution. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 215, 225-236.

Tita, G., G. Desrosiers, M. Vincx, J.P. Gagné & J. Locat. 2001. Diversity and vertical distribution of nematode assemblages: the Saguenay fjord (Quebec, Canada). Cah.Biol.mar., 42, 263-274.

Vanreusel, A., N. Cosson-Sarradin, A.J. Gooday, G.L.J. Patterson, J. Galéron, M. Sibuet & M. Vincx. 2001. Evidence for episodic recruitment in a small opheliid polychaete species from the abyssal NE Atlantic. Progress in Oceanography, volume 50, Issues 1-4, 285-301.

Cattrijsse, A. & M. Vincx (eds) . 2001. Biodiversity of the benthos and the avifauna of the Belgian coastal waters. Summary of data collected between 1970 and 1998. Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, Scientific support plan for a sustainable development policy, D/2001/1191/7; 48 pags.

Engledow, H., Spanoghe, G., Volckaert, A., Coppejans, E., Degraer, S., Vincx, M. & Hoffmann, M., 2001. Onderzoek naar de fysische karakterisatie en de biodiversiteit van strandhoofden en andere harde substraten langs de Belgische kust. Eindrapport in opdracht van het Min. Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Dept. Leefmilieu en Infrastructuur, Afd. Waterwegen en Zeewezen, 109 pp.

Degraer, S., A. Volckaert & M. Vincx. 2001. Macrobenthic zonation patterns along a morphodynamical continuum of macrotidal, low tide bar/rip and ultra-dissiapative sandy beaches. Proceedings : Abstract Volume in : Beaches – What future ? An integrated approach to the Ecology and evolution of beaches and sand dunes, pag. 32-33.

Gheskiere, T., F. Scapini & M. Vincx. 2001. Meiobenthic biodiversity of Italian sandy beaches with emphasis on the free-living marine nematodes. Proceedings : Abstract Volume in: Beaches – What future ? An integrated approach to the Ecology and evolution of beaches and sand dunes, pag. 13-14

Lee H.J. Vanhove, S., L.S. Peck & M. Vincx. 2001. Recolonisation of meiofauna after catastrophic iceberg scouring in shallow Antarctic sediments. Polar Biology, 24, 918-925.

Lee, H.J. , D. Gerders, S. Vanhove & M. Vincx, 2001. Meiofauna response to Iceberg disturbance on the

Antarctic Continetal Shelf at Kapp Norvegia (Weddell Sea). Polar Biology, 24, 926-933.

Steyaert, M., Herman, P.M.J.H., Moens T., J.W. Widdows & M. Vincx. 2001. Tidal migration of nematodes on an estuarine tidal flat (The Molenplaat, Schelde Estuary, SW Netherlands). Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser., 224, 299-304.

De Troch, M., Gurdebeke, S., Fiers, F. and Vincx, M. (2001). Zonation and structuring factors of meiofauna communities in a tropical seagrass bed (Gazi Bay, Kenya) Journal of Sea Research 45: 45-62

Galéron, J., Sibuet, M., Vanreusel, A., Mackenzie, K., Gooday, A. J., Dinet, A. and Vincx, M. (2001). Temporal patterns among meiofauna and macrofauna taxa related to changes in sediment geochemistry at an abyssal NE Atlantic site. Progress in Oceanography 50: 303-324.

Vincx, M. 2001. Meiobenthos: indicatoren voor vervuiling. In: De Schelde, een rivier met vele gezichten. Tijdschrfit De Levende Natuur, ISSN 0024-1520, maart 2001. pag. 81.

2002

Vincx, M. 2002. Verarmd ecosystem bij de Scheldemonding. Natuur & Techniek, 70° jaargang, maart 2002, pags. 60-63

Beyst, B., J. Vanaverbeke, M. Vincx & J. Mees. 2002. Tidal and diurnal periodicity in macrocrustaceans and demersal fish of an exposed sandy beach, with special emphasis on juvenile plaice Pleuronectes platessa. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 225, 263-274.

Moens, T., C. Luyten, J.J. Middelburg, P.M.J. Herman & M. Vincx. 2002. Tracing organic matter sources of estuarine tidal flat nematodes with stable carbon isotopes. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 234, 127-137.

Gheskiere, T., E. Hoste, L. Kotwicki, S. Degraer, J. Vanaverbeke & M. Vincx. 2002. The sandy beach meiofauna and free-living nematodes from De Panne (Belgium). Bull. Van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, Biologie, 72, supplement: 43-49.

Deprez, T.; Wittoeck, J.; De Smet, G.; Vincx, M. 2002. NemasLan, MysidLan, TaxonLan: a story of database development: archiving marine species data for biodiversity, morphology and taxonomy research in a digital way. Pp 47 in Brown, M.; Costello, M.; Heip, C.; Levitus, S.; Mees, J.; Pissierssens, P.; Vanden Berghe, E. (Ed.): The Colour of Ocean Data: International Symposium on oceanographic data and information management, with special attention to biological data. Brussels, Belgium, 25-27 November 2002: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 11. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Oostende, Belgium.

Wittoeck, J.; Degraer, S.; Hillewaert, H.; Declerck, R.; Vincx, M. (2002). Long-term trends of the macrobenthos of the Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) (poster). Pp 93 in Brown, M.; Costello, M.; Heip, C.; Levitus, S.; Mees, J.; Pissierssens, P.; Vanden Berghe, E. (Ed.): The Colour of Ocean Data: International Symposium on oceanographic data and information management, with special attention to biological data. Brussels, Belgium, 25-27 November 2002: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 11. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Oostende, Belgium.

Vanhove, S.; Deprez, T.; De Smet, G.; Vanreusel, A.; Vincx, M. (2002). Biodiversity of Antarctic nematodes: the ‘NEMASLAN’ project (poster). Pp 92 in Brown, M.; Costello, M.; Heip, C.; Levitus, S.; Mees, J.; Pissierssens, P.; Vanden Berghe, E. (Ed.): The Colour of Ocean Data: International Symposium on oceanographic data and information management, with special attention to biological data. Brussels, Belgium, 25-27 November 2002: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 11. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Oostende, Belgium.

Vanaverbeke, J.; Gheskiere, T.; Steyaert, M.; Vincx, M. 2002. Nematode assemblages from subtidal sandbanks in the Southern Bight of the North Sea: effect of small sedimentological differences. J. Sea Res. 48(3): 197-207.

Tita, G., G. Desrosiers, M. Vincx & M. Clément. 2002. Intertidal meiofauna of the St Lawrence estuary (Quebec, Canada): diversity, biomass, and feeding structure of nematode assemblages. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 82, 779-791.

Dewicke, A., V. Rottiers, J. Mees & M. Vincx. 2002. Evidence for an enriched hyperbenthic fauna in the Frisian front (North Sea). Journal of Sea Research, 47, 121-139.

Fockedey, N.; Mees, J.; Vincx, M. (2002). Feeding and growth of the mysid Neomysis integer on aggregates in the MTZ of the Scheldt estuary. Pp 50 in Meire, P.; Van Damme, S.; Heip, C. (Ed.): ECSA Local Meeting: ecological structures and functions in the Scheldt Estuary: from past to future, Antwerp, Belgium October 7-10, 2002: Abstract Book. University of Antwerp: Antwerp, Belgium.

Hampel, H.; Cattrijsse, A.; Vincx, M. (2002). Habitat value of a developing estuarine brackish marsh. Pp 51 in Meire, P.; Van Damme, S.; Heip, C. (Ed.): ECSA Local Meeting: ecological structures and functions in the Scheldt Estuary: from past to future, Antwerp, Belgium October 7-10, 2002: Abstract Book. University of Antwerp: Antwerp, Belgium.

Steyaert, M.; Vandewiele, S.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Moodley, L.; Vincx, M. (2002). The role of oxygen in the vertical distribution of nematodes: an experimental approach. Pp 59 in Meire, P.; Van Damme, S.; Heip, C. (Ed.): ECSA Local Meeting: ecological structures and functions in the Scheldt Estuary: from past to future, Antwerp, Belgium October 7-10, 2002: Abstract Book. University of Antwerp: Antwerp, Belgium.

2003

Dewicke, A.; Cattrijsse, A.; Mees, J.; Vincx, M. 2003. Spatial patterns of the hyperbenthos of subtidal sandbanks in the southern North Sea. J. Sea Res. 49(1) : 27-45.

De Troch, M., F. Fiers & M. Vincx. 2003. Niche segregation and habitat specialisation of harpacticoid copepods in a tropical seagrass bed. Marine Biology, 142, 345-355.

Vanaverbeke, J., M. Steyaert, A. Vanreusel & M. Vincx. 2003. Nematode biomass spectra as descriptors of functional changes due to human and natural impact. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 249, 157-170.

M. Steyaert, J. Vanaverbeke, A. Vanreusel, C. Barranguet, C. Lucas and M.Vincx. 2003. The importance of fine-scale, vertical profiles in characterizing  nematode community structure. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 58, 353-366.

Gheskiere, T., G. De Smet, A. Vanreusel & M. Vincx. 2003. Nematoda. Chapter in book : Das Mittelmeer, fauna, flora, ökologie. Part II/1. 602- 627.

Degraer S., A. Volckaert & M. Vincx. 2003. Macrobenthic zonation patterns along a morphodynamical continuum of macrotidal, low tide bar/rip and ultra-dissipative sandy beaches. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Sciences, 56, 459-468.

Hampel, H., A. Cattrijsse & M. Vincx. 2003. Habitat value of a developing estuarine brackish marsh for fish and macrocrustaceans. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 60, 2, 278-289.

Hampel, H., A. Cattrijsse & M. Vincx. 2003. Tidal, diel and semi-lunar changes in the fauna assemblage of an intertidal salt marsh creek. Estuarine and Coastal Shelf Science. 56, 795-805.

Gheskiere, T., S. Degraer & M. Vincx. 2003. Vrijlevende mariene nematoden, ongekende bewoners van het zandstrand ecosystem. De Strandvlo, 23(2), pags. 58-67.

Vandendriessche, S., S. Degraer & M. Vincx. 2003. Drijvende wieren als habitat voor macrofauna aan de Belgische kust. De Strandvlo 23(2), pags. 50-57.

De Mesel, I., S. Derycke, J. Swings, M. Vincx & T. Moens. 2003. Influence of bacterivorous nematodes on the decomposition of cordgrass. Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology, 296, 227-242.

ABSTRACTS 2003 :

Vanaverbeke, J., M. Steyaert, K. Soetaert & M. Vincx. 2003. Functional and structural diversity of nematode communities during sedimentation of a spring phytoplankton bloom in a sandy North Sea site. 38th EMBS – Aveiro, Portugal. Pag. 37-38.

Verween, A., S. Degraer & M. Vincx. 2003. Reducing the economic impact of an invasive bivalve Mytilopsis leucoiphaeata in the harbour of Antwerp. 38th EMBS – Aveiro, Portugal., Pag. 69-70.

Adao, H., M. Vincx & J.C. Marques. 2003. Seasonal dynamics of meiofauna communities in Zostera noltii Hornem sediments in the Mira estuary (SW Portugal). 38th EMBS – Aveiro, Portugal., Pag. 97.

De Mesel, I., P. Van Brussel, J. Vanaverbeke & M. Vincx. 2003. Influence of fluctuating environmentyal factors on the decomposition of cordgrass (Spartina anglica) and the associated nematode and bacterial community. 38th EMBS – Aveiro, Portugal., Pag. 111.

Derycke, S., T. Moens & M. Vincx. 2003. Genetic differentiation among coastal and estuarine populations of a free-living nematode in Belgium and The Netherlands. 38th EMBS – Aveiro, Portugal., Pag. 113.

Steyaert, M., J. Vanaverbeke, C. Barranguet, C. Lucas & M. Vincx. The importance of fine-scale vertical profiles for explaining intertidal nematode diversity: a case study from the Molenplaat (Westerschelde estuary (SW Netherlands)). 38th EMBS – Aveiro, Portugal., Pag. 151.

Van Hoey, G., H. Pelgrims, S. Degraer & M. Vincx. 2003. The effects of recruitment on the community parameters within the Abra alba – Mysella bidentata community on the Belgian Continental Shelf. 38th EMBS – Aveiro, Portugal., Pags. 152-153.

Vandendriessche, S., S. Degraer & M. Vincx. 2003. Ephemeral neustonic macrofaunal communities on floating seaweeds. Pag. 153.

Vanquickelberghe, V., D. Cuvelier, J.C. Sorbe & M. Vincx. 2003. Bathymetric distribution of the Peracarida along two deep-sea transects down the European continental slope (Atlantic Ocean). 38th EMBS – Aveiro, Portugal., Pag. 153-154.

Wittoeck, J., S. Degraer, H. Hillewaert, R. Declerck & M. Vincx. 2003. Long-term trends of the macrobenthos of the Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS). 38th EMBS – Aveiro, Portugal., Pag. 156.

Franco, M. A., H.n. Cabral, R.Gamito, A. REgo, R. Tenreiro, L. Chambel, M.J. Costa, N. Smol & M. Vincx. 2003. Impact of discards of beam trawl fishing on free-living estuarine nematodes. 38th EMBS – Aveiro, Portugal., Pags. 180-181.

De Troch, M., Ólafsson, E., Steinarsdóttir, M.B., Chepurnov, V. & Vincx, M., 2003. Recent methods to evaluate structural and functional biodiversity: what can harpacticoid copepods learn us? p. 58 In: Heip, C.H.R., Hummel, H., Van Avesaath, P.H., Warwick, R.M. (eds.), High level Scientific Conferences Activity: “Biodiversity of Coastal Marine Ecosystems: A functional approach to coastal marine biodiversity”. Book of abstracts, Renesse, The Netherlands, 11-15 May 2003. Netherlands Institute of Ecology – Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology: Yerseke, The Netherlands, 85 pp.

2004

Aerts, K., Vanagt, T., Degraer, S., Guartatanga, S., Wittoeck, J., Fockedey, N., Cornejo-Rodriguez, M., Calderon, J. and Vincx, M. (2004) Macrofaunal community structure and zonation of an Ecuadorian sandy beach (Bay of Valdivia). Belgian Journal of Zoology 134 (1): 17-24. ISCI: 0 ; JIF : 0.394

De Mesel, I., Derycke, S., Moens, T., Van der Gucht, K., Vincx, M. and Swings, J. 2004. Top-down impact of bacterivorous nematodes on the bacterial community structure: a microcosm study. Environmental Microbiology, 6(7), 733-744.

ISCI: 0 ; JIF : 3.649

Gheskiere, T., Hoste, E., Vanaverbeke, J., Vincx, M. and Degraer, S. 2004. Horizontal zonation patterns and feeding structure of marine nematode assemblages on a macrotidal, ultra-dissipative sandy beach (De Panne, Belgium). Journal of Sea Research. 52, 211-226.

ISCI: 0 ; JIF : 1.350

Muthumbi, A., Vanreusel, A., Duineveld, G., Soetaert, K. and Vincx, M. 2004. Nematode community structure along the continental slope off the Kenyan coast, Western Indian Ocean. International Review of Hydrobiology. 89, 2, 188-205.

ISCI: 0 ; JIF : 0.795

Van Hoey, G., Degraer, S. and Vincx, M. 2004. Macrobenthic community structure of soft-bottom communities on the Belgian Continental Shelf. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 59: 601-615. ISCI: 0 ; JIF : 1.201

Vanaverbeke J, Soetaert K, Vincx M. 2004. Changes in morphometric characteristics of nematode communities during a spring phytoplankton bloom deposition. Mar Ecol Prog Ser., 139-146. ISCI:0; JIF:2.222

Remerie,T., B. Bulckaen, J. Calderon, T. Deprez, J. Mees, J. Vanfleteren, A. Vanreusel,  A. Vierstraete, M. Vincx,   K.J. Wittmann & T. Wooldridge. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships within the Mysidae (Crustacea, Peracarida, Mysida) based on nuclear 18S ribosomal RNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 32, 770-777.

(ISCO: 0; JIF : 2.590)

Deprez, T., E. Vanden Berghe & M. Vincx. 2004. NeMys: a multidisciplinary biological information system. Vanden Berghe et al (Eds), 2004, 57-63. Proceedings of the ‘The Colour of Ocean Data’Symposium, Brussels, 25-27 November 2002. IOC workshop report 188 (UNESCO, Paris).

Vanaverbeke, J., M. Steyaert, K. Soetaert, V. Rousseau, D. Van Gansbeke, J.Y Parent & M. Vincx. 2004. Changes in structural and functional diversity of nematode communities during a spring phytoplankton bloom in the southern North Sea. Journal of Sea Research, 52, 281-292. (ISCO: 0; JIF : 1.372)

Dominguez Grande L., N. Fockedey, M. De Mey, B. Beyst, M.P. Cornejo, J. Calderon & M. Vincx. 2004. Spatial patterns of the surf zone hyperbenthos in Valdivia Bay (Ecuador). Hydrobiologia, 529, 205-224. (ISCO : O; JIF : )

Vandendriessche S., Messiaen M., Vincx M., Degraer S. (in press dec 2004) ‘Juvenile Hippocampus guttulatus from a neuston tow at the French-Belgian border’. Belgian Journal of Zoology. 134/2

Massin, C., W. Appeltans, G. Van Hoey, M. Vincx & S. Degraer (in press dec 2004). Leptosynapta minuta (Becher, 1906) (Echinodermata, Holothutoidea), a new species for Belgian marine waters.

Belgian Journal of Zoology, 134/2

Verween, A., M. Vincx, J. Mees & S. Degraer. (in press dec 2004). Seasonal variability of Mytilopsis leucophaeata larvae in the harbour of Antwerp: implications for ecologically and economically sound biofouling control. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 134/2

2005

1. Steyaert M., Moodley L., Vanaverbeke J., Vandewiele S., Vincx M. 2005. Laboratory experiments on the infaunal activity of intertidal nematodes. Hydrobiologia, 540, 217-223. ( in Hydrobiologia, special issue ‘Ecological structures and functions in the Scheldt estuary: from Past to Future’, ed. P. Meire & S. Van Damme).

2. Gheskiere T, Vincx M, Węsławski JM, Scapini F, Degraer S. 2005. Meiofauna as descriptor of tourism-induced changes at sandy beaches. Marine Environmental Research, 60, 245-265.

3. ISCO : 0; JIF : 1.487

4. Gheskiere, T., M. Vincx, B. Urban-Malinga, C. Rossano, F. Scapini & S. Degraer. 2005. Nematodes from wave-dominated sandy beaches. Nematodes from wave-dominated sandy beaches: diversity, zonation patterns and testing of the isocommunities concept. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 62, 365-375.

5. ISCO : 0; JIF : 1.201

6. Derycke S, Remerie T, Vierstraete A, Backeljau T, Vanfleteren J, Vincx M, Moens T. 2005 (in press, April 2005). mDNA variation and cryptic speciation within the free living marine nematode P. marina. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

7. ISCI:0; JIF:2.222

8. Van Hoey, G., Vincx, M., Degraer, S., in press (april 2005). Small- to large scale geographical patterns within the macrobenthic Abra alba community. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

9. ISCO : 0; JIF : 1.201

10. Moens, T., dos Santos G.A.P., Thompson F., Swings J., Fonseca-Genevois V., Vincx, M. , De Mesel I., 2005. (in druk, mei 2005) Do nematode mucus secretions affect bacterial growth? Aquatic Microbial Ecology.

11. Vandendriessche S., Vincx M. & Degraer S. (in press, mei 2005) Floating seaweed in the neustonic environment: a case study from Belgian coastal waters. Journal of Sea Research.

12. Gheerardyn,H., F. Fiers, M. Vincx & M. De Troch. In press. Mei 2005. Peltidiphonte gen. n., a new taxon of Laophontidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from coral substrates of the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Hydrobiologia

13. De Troch, M., Van Gansbeke, D. & Vincx, M. (in druk, mei 2005) Resource availability and meiofauna in sediment of tropical seagrass beds: local versus global trends. Marine Environmental Research IF=1.487

14. De Troch, M., Vandepitte, L., Raes, M., Suàrez-Morales, E. & Vincx, M. (in press, mei 2005) A field colonisation experiment with meiofauna and seagrass mimics: effect of time, distance and surface. Marine Biology IF= 1.84

SUBMITTED

De Troch, M., Fiers, F., Suárez-Morales, E., & Vincx, M. Is community convergence a general rule in similar but widely separated habitats? A case-study on meiofauna in tropical seagrass beds. Ecological Monographs (March 2004). JIF : 4.7 NO GO !

IN PRESS

Vanhove, S., Lee Hee Joong, M. Beghyn, D. Van Gansbeke, S. Brockington & M. Vincx. In press. The metazoan meiofauna in an Antarctic coastal sediment : link with food and biochemical gradients. Journal Marine Biological Association U.K.

Degraer S. & M. Vincx. (submitted on 22 december 1995). The epiphytic and benthic macro-invertebrates living associated with seagrasses in Gazi Bay (Kenya), with emphasis on the Crustacea. Marine Biology.

De Troch, M., S. Gurdebeke, F. Fiers & M. Vincx (submitted). Zonation and structuring factors of meiofauna communities in a tropical seagrass bed (Gazi Bay, Kenya). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

Herman, R., S. Vanhove, M. Vincx & G. De Smet. (in press). Size distribution of the nematode communities in the Halley Bay area (Weddell Sea, Antarctica). Polar Biology.

Tita Guglielmo, Gaston Desrosiers & M. Vincx. (in press). Meiofauna of the Saguenay Fjord (Canada) : composition, biomass, feeding structure and vertical zonation of nematode communities.

Vanhove, S., W. Arntz & M. Vincx. Submitted. Nematode community composition in the Weddell Sea: a comparative study related to different spatial scales.

Angsinco-Jimenez, L., M. Vincx & J. Schrijvers. Submitted March 1998. Community structure of macrobenthic infauna at Guang-guang point and nearby shores of Pujada Bay, Southern Philippines.

Verschelde, D., W. Nicholas & M. Vincx. In press. A review of the genera Croconema Cobb, 1920 and Pseudochromadora Dady, 1889 (Nematoda, Desmodoroidea); new species from the Coasts of Kenya and Australia. Mar. Freshwater Res

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