Lieven Bervoets

History

Member for

5 years 41 weeks

Professional information

Participation in other projects

• Development of a biodiversity chip for the biomonitoring of benthic macro invertebrate communities.
• Metal bioavailability from sediments and effects on the macroinvertebrate community
• Cocaïne en metabolieten in Belgische afval- en oppervlaktewaters
• Health effects, bioaccumulation and detoxification of metals in large herbivores.
• Ecology, distribution and species diversity of caddisflies (Trichoptera) in Flanders
• Analysis of pharmaceutical products in wastewater: development, validation and evaluation
• Effecten van saneringswerken op de ecologische en ecotoxicologische toestand van de Dommel
• Behavioural response of damselfly larva captured in ponds and the biomarker response in relation to accumulated micro pollutants
• Linkage of gene expression to classical endpoints as a result of contaminant exposure in the carp during a field study
• DNA barcoding and the phylogeny of Flemish Trichoptera
• Development of a biodiversity-chip for the biomonitoring of benthic macroinvertebrate communities
• Bio-accumulation and trophic transfer of pollutants (metals, POPs and pesticides) in tropical freshwater aquatic food webs
• Accumulation, transfer and origin of metals in terrestrial food webs in polluted ecosystems of Flanders
• Human exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances

Position in the lab

Professor

Curriculum Vitae

I studied Biology (Zoology) at the University of Antwerp between 1981 and 1986. My professional career started in the research group Nature Conservation of Prof. Dr. R. Verheyen, where I participated during the first years in different research projects for the Flemish Government on the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on freshwater ecosystems. Simultaneously I started my PhD research in the EB&T group on the effect of environmental factors on the uptake of trace metals by larvae of the midge Chironomus riparius, which I finished in February 1996. After my PhD I moved to the EB&T lab for a postdoctoral fellowship (FWO). In January 2006 I was appointed as Research Professor (ZAP-BOF) in Environmental Toxicology in our research group.

My past and present research mainly focuses on the bio availability and effects of micro pollutants (metals and organic pollutants) to aquatic organisms under natural field conditions. My main interest is studying effects at environmental relevant levels of biological organisation, i.e. the population and community level.
For these studies laboratory and field studies are combined. In the field studies both empirical studies are performed where accumulation and effects of micro pollutants are related to environmental levels and field experiments where organisms from clean reference sites or laboratory culture are transplanted to contaminated sited where they are exposed for a certain period, applying cages.

Online bibliography

http://anet.ua.ac.be/acadbib/ua/4712

Selected publications

Bervoets L., J. Voets, A. Covaci, S. Chu, D. Qadah, R. Smolders, P. Schepens and R. Blust. 2005. Use of transplanted zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) to assess the bioavailability of micro contaminants in flemish surface waters. Environmental Science and Technology, 39 (6): 1492-1505.

Bervoets L., Knaepkens G., Eens M. and R. Blust. 2005. Fish community responses to metal pollution. Environmental Pollution , 138: 338-349.

Bervoets L., G. Meregalli, W. De Cooman, B. Goddeeris and R. Blust. 2004. Caged midge larvae for the assessment of metal bioaccumulation from sediments in situ. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 23 (2): 443-454.