Christoph Mensens is a MARES PhD student who works on the effect of chemical stressors on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in intertidal food webs. As a biologist with specialization in ecotoxicology, he gained experience in field and laboratory studies in environmental biology and toxicology. He is now applying this experience to the marine environment, in order to investigate how chemical stressors affect biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at the basis of the North Sea food web. | |
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in stressed environments, more
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A1 Publications (6) [show] |
- Boyen, J.; Fink, P.; Mensens, C.; Hablützel, P.I.; De Troch, M. (2020). Fatty acid bioconversion in harpacticoid copepods in a changing environment: a transcriptomic approach. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (B Biol. Sci.) 375(1804): 20190645. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0645, more
- Deschutter, Y.; De Schamphelaere, K.; Everaert, G.; Mensens, C.; De Troch, M. (2019). Seasonal and spatial fatty acid profiling of the calanoid copepods Temora longicornis and Acartia clausi linked to environmental stressors in the North Sea. Mar. Environ. Res. 144: 92-101. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.12.008, more
- Mensens, C.; De Laender, F.; Janssen, C.; Rivera, F.C.; Sabbe, K.; De Troch, M. (2018). Selective and context-dependent effects of chemical stress across trophic levels at the basis of marine food webs. Ecol. Appl. 28(5): 1342-1353. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.1737, more
- Mensens, C.; De Laender, F.; Janssen, C.R.; Sabbe, K.; De Troch, M. (2017). Different response-effect trait relationships underlie contrasting responses to two chemical stressors. J. Ecol. 105(6): 1598-1609. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12777, more
- Werbrouck, E.; Van Gansbeke, D.; Vanreusel, A.; Mensens, C.; De Troch, M. (2016). Temperature-induced changes in fatty acid dynamics of the intertidal grazer Platychelipus littoralis (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida): insights from a short-term feeding experiment. J. Therm. Biol. 57: 44-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2016.02.002, more
- Mensens, C.; De Laender, F.; Janssen, C.R.; Sabbe, K.; De Troch, M. (2015). Stressor-induced biodiversity gradients: revisiting biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Oikos (Kbh.) 124(6): 677–684. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.01904, more
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Abstracts (5) [show] |
- Boyen, J.; Hablützel, P.; Fink, P.; Mensens, C.; De Troch, M. (2020). A characterization of the fatty acid metabolism genes of the harpacticoid copepod Platychelipus littoralis, in: Mees, J. et al. Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day. Oostende, Belgium, 18 March 2020. VLIZ Special Publication, 84: pp. 51, more
- Boyen, J.; Fink, P.; Mensens, C.; Wellens, S.; De Troch, M. (2019). Unraveling fatty acid bioconversion in harpacticoid copepods facing a changing environment, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day. Bredene, Belgium, 13 March 2019. VLIZ Special Publication, 83: pp. 12, more
- Boyen, J.; Fink, P.; Mensens, C.; Wellens, S.; Hablützel, P.I.; De Troch, M. (2019). Unraveling fatty acid bioconversion in harpacticoid copepods facing a changing environment, in: Adão, H. et al. (Ed.) Book of Abstracts: Sevent IMCO - Seventeenth International Meiofauna Conference, University of Évora, Portugal, 7-12 July, 2019. University of Évora, Special Publication, : pp. 58-59, more
- Wellens, S.; Mensens, C.; Boyen, J.; Guifarro, Z.; Vlaeminck, B; Domínguez, L.; De Troch, M. (2019). Fatty acid profiling of copepods to meet SDG 2, 13 and 14: comparing temperature responses in a tropical and temperate estuary, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – VLIZ Marine Science Day. Bredene, Belgium, 13 March 2019. VLIZ Special Publication, 83: pp. 32, more
- Boyen, J.; Mensens, C.; Wellens, S.; Fink, P.; De Troch, M. (2018). A transcriptomic approach to unravel fatty acid pathways of harpacticoid copepods in a changing environment, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – 53rd European Marine Biology Symposium. Oostende, Belgium, 17-21 September 2018. VLIZ Special Publication, 82: pp. 75, more
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