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Jean-Pierre Maelfait
Researcher at Ghent University
Publications - 102
Citations - 3860
Jean-Pierre Maelfait is an academic researcher from Ghent University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Habitat. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 102 publications receiving 3592 citations. Previous affiliations of Jean-Pierre Maelfait include Research Institute for Nature and Forest.
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How landscape structure, land-use intensity and habitat diversity affect components of total arthropod diversity in agricultural landscapes
Frederik Hendrickx,Jean-Pierre Maelfait,Walter K. R. E. van Wingerden,Oliver Schweiger,Marjan Speelmans,Stéphanie Aviron,Isabel Augenstein,Regula Billeter,Debra Bailey,Roman Bukacek,Françoise Burel,Tim Diekötter,J. Dirksen,Felix Herzog,Jaan Liira,M. Roubalova,Viki Vandomme,Rob Bugter +17 more
TL;DR: The total landscape species richness of all groups was most strongly affected by increased proximity of semi-natural habitat patches and the effect of increased habitat diversity appeared to be of secondary importance to total species richness but caused a shift in the relative contribution of α and β diversity towards the latter.
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Quantifying the impact of environmental factors on arthropod communities in agricultural landscapes across organizational levels and spatial scales
Oliver Schweiger,Jean-Pierre Maelfait,W.K.R.E. van Wingerden,Frederik Hendrickx,Regula Billeter,Marjan Speelmans,Isabel Augenstein,Brian H. Aukema,Stéphanie Aviron,Debra Bailey,Roman Bukacek,Françoise Burel,Tim Diekötter,J. Dirksen,Mark Frenzel,Felix Herzog,Jaan Liira,M. Roubalova,Rob Bugter +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed five arthropod taxa covering a broad range of functional aspects (wild bees, true bugs, carabid beetles, hoverflies and spiders) in 24 landscapes (4 x 4 km) across seven European countries along gradients of both land-use intensity and landscape structure.
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Effects of landscape structure and land-use intensity on similarity of plant and animal communities
Carsten F. Dormann,Oliver Schweiger,Isabel Augenstein,Debra Bailey,Regula Billeter,Geert De Blust,Riccardo DeFilippi,Mark Frenzel,Frederik Hendrickx,Felix Herzog,Stefan Klotz,Jaan Liira,Jean-Pierre Maelfait,T. Schmidt,Marjan Speelmans,Walter K. R. E. van Wingerden,Martin Zobel +16 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the similarity of plant, bird, wild bee, true bug, carabid beetle, hoverfly and spider communities sampled along gradients in landscape composition (e.g. total availability of semi-natural habitat), landscape configuration and land-use intensity.
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Low propensity for aerial dispersal in specialist spiders from fragmented landscapes.
TL;DR: Investigation of interspecific variation in the ballooning–initiating tiptoe behaviour as it is linked to spider dispersal performance indicates that ballooning performance is negatively related to habitat specialization in spiders from patchy grey dunes, so habitat specialists are characterized by poorly developed dispersal behaviour.
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Beach nourishment: an ecologically sound coastal defence alternative? A review
Jeroen Speybroeck,Dries Bonte,Wouter Courtens,T. Gheskiere,Patrick Grootaert,Jean-Pierre Maelfait,M. Mathys,Sam Provoost,Koen Sabbe,Eric Stienen,V. Van Lancker,Magda Vincx,Steven Degraer +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, negative, ecosystem-component specific effects of beach nourishment dominate in the short to medium term, with the size of the impact being determined by activities during the construction phase, the quality and quantity of the nourishment sand, the timing, place and size of a proJect, and the nutrition technique and strategy applied.