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Jan Vanaverbeke

Researcher at Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

Publications -  149
Citations -  5316

Jan Vanaverbeke is an academic researcher from Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Benthic zone & Sediment. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 137 publications receiving 4461 citations. Previous affiliations of Jan Vanaverbeke include Ghent University & University of Oldenburg.

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The magnitude of global marine species diversity

Ward Appeltans, +125 more
- 04 Dec 2012 - 
TL;DR: The first register of the marine species of the world is compiled and it is estimated that between one-third and two-thirds of marine species may be undescribed, and previous estimates of there being well over one million marine species appear highly unlikely.
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BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

Maria Dornelas, +286 more
TL;DR: The BioTIME database contains raw data on species identities and abundances in ecological assemblages through time to enable users to calculate temporal trends in biodiversity within and amongst assemblage using a broad range of metrics.
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Role of macrofauna functional traits and density in biogeochemical fluxes and bioturbation

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of different functional traits of macrobenthos in benthic processes of the Southern Bight of the North Sea was investigated to estimate the effects of density declines and species loss on Benthic ecosystem functioning.
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Exploring the use of cytochrome oxidase c subunit 1 (COI) for DNA barcoding of free-living marine nematodes.

TL;DR: The I3-M11 partition reliably identifies a wide range of marine nematodes, and the need for a strict scrutiny of the obtained sequences is shown, since contamination, nuclear pseudogenes and endosymbionts may confuse nematode species identification by COI sequences.