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Beatrijs Bossuyt
Researcher at Ghent University
Publications - 55
Citations - 3943
Beatrijs Bossuyt is an academic researcher from Ghent University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Soil seed bank. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 55 publications receiving 3740 citations. Previous affiliations of Beatrijs Bossuyt include Catholic University of Leuven & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Can the seed bank be used for ecological restoration? An overview of seed bank characteristics in European communities
Beatrijs Bossuyt,Olivier Honnay +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed seed bank studies (1990-2006) to determine if they provide useful and reliable results to predict restoration success, including seed density, species richness, diversity and evenness of the seed bank community.
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Forest fragmentation effects on patch occupancy and population viability of herbaceous plant species
TL;DR: This review discusses extinction and colonization dynamics of forest plant species at the regional scale and suggests that the use of the metapopulation concept, both because of its heuristic power and conservation applications, may be fruitful.
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Possible effects of habitat fragmentation and climate change on the range of forest plant species
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the results of two forest plant colonization studies in two fragmented landscapes in central Belgium and show that almost all forest plant species (85%) had an extremely low success of colonizing spatially segregated new suitable forest habitats after c. 40 years.
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Prolonged clonal growth: escape route or route to extinction?
Olivier Honnay,Beatrijs Bossuyt +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that prolonged and nearly exclusive clonal growth through environmental suppression of sexual reproduction can ultimately lead to local sexual extinction and to monoclonal populations of a species, and that this may imply significant consequences for population viability.
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Migration of herbaceous plant species across ancient–recent forest ecotones in central Belgium
TL;DR: Several forest species were able to colonize the recent forest rapidly, where some of them even reached a higher abundance, due to the increased availability of colonization sites with a higher nutrient content and a thinner organic layer.