Luc De Meester

36.2k total citations · 10 hit papers
409 papers, 23.3k citations indexed

About

Luc De Meester is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Luc De Meester has authored 409 papers receiving a total of 23.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 232 papers in Ecology, 202 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 127 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Luc De Meester's work include Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (199 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (96 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (84 papers). Luc De Meester is often cited by papers focused on Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (199 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (96 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (84 papers). Luc De Meester collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and United States. Luc De Meester's co-authors include Luc Brendonck, Robby Stoks, Steven Declerck, Joost Vanoverbeke, Karl Cottenie, Erik Jeppesen, Erik Michels, Ellen Decaestecker, Joachim Mergeay and Gerald Louette and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Luc De Meester

402 papers receiving 22.5k citations

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Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Luc De Meester 12.8k 8.4k 7.0k 4.8k 3.5k 409 23.3k
James J. Elser 16.6k 1.3× 13.7k 1.6× 10.4k 1.5× 2.1k 0.4× 4.2k 1.2× 307 39.9k
Nelson G. Hairston 7.8k 0.6× 3.3k 0.4× 5.4k 0.8× 3.7k 0.8× 4.2k 1.2× 187 15.9k
Helmut Hillebrand 12.4k 1.0× 6.5k 0.8× 8.4k 1.2× 1.0k 0.2× 3.9k 1.1× 224 24.4k
Petr Šmilauer 11.3k 0.9× 3.4k 0.4× 8.8k 1.3× 996 0.2× 5.8k 1.6× 104 25.3k
Jonathan B. Shurin 9.0k 0.7× 4.0k 0.5× 6.6k 0.9× 1.3k 0.3× 3.1k 0.9× 116 16.3k
Colin R. Townsend 16.1k 1.3× 3.5k 0.4× 12.5k 1.8× 1.6k 0.3× 3.1k 0.9× 216 23.8k
David M. Lodge 27.0k 2.1× 4.6k 0.5× 18.1k 2.6× 2.9k 0.6× 7.3k 2.1× 236 43.5k
Diana H. Wall 15.5k 1.2× 1.9k 0.2× 8.1k 1.2× 1.5k 0.3× 5.5k 1.6× 194 29.4k
Mathew A. Leibold 8.2k 0.6× 2.2k 0.3× 7.1k 1.0× 1.9k 0.4× 4.4k 1.2× 87 14.7k
Jonathan M. Chase 14.0k 1.1× 2.0k 0.2× 13.3k 1.9× 2.7k 0.6× 8.5k 2.4× 192 26.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luc De Meester

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luc De Meester

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Luc De Meester. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Luc De Meester based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Luc De Meester. Luc De Meester is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Meester, Luc De, et al.. (2025). Rapid temporal adaptation structures tolerance to toxic cyanobacteria in a natural population of the water flea Daphnia. Evolution Letters. 9(5). 548–557. 1 indexed citations
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Meester, Luc De, Tom De Bie, Bram Vanschoenwinkel, et al.. (2025). Community Assembly of Cladoceran Zooplankton in Relation to Pond Age and the Establishment of Macrophytes and Fish. Freshwater Biology. 70(10).
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Debortoli, Nicolas, Alejandro Martínez, Lyudmila Kamburska, et al.. (2024). Weak effect of urbanization on bdelloid rotifers living in lichens. Royal Society Open Science. 11(4). 231978–231978. 1 indexed citations
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Brans, Kristien I., et al.. (2024). Regional and fine-scale local adaptation in salinity tolerance in Daphnia inhabiting contrasting clusters of inland saline waters. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2016). 20231917–20231917. 2 indexed citations
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Dong, Ying, et al.. (2024). Pollution offsets the rapid evolution of increased heat tolerance in a natural population. The Science of The Total Environment. 944. 173070–173070. 1 indexed citations
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Urban, Mark C., Marina Alberti, Luc De Meester, et al.. (2024). Interactions between climate change and urbanization will shape the future of biodiversity. Nature Climate Change. 14(5). 436–447. 32 indexed citations
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Lemmens, Pieter, et al.. (2023). Pesticide exposure enhances dominance patterns in a zooplankton community. Ecological Applications. 33(7). e2900–e2900. 5 indexed citations
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Brans, Kristien I., et al.. (2023). The effect of temperature and predation on performance in monoculture and in competition in three Daphniidae differing in body size. Limnology and Oceanography. 68(S1). 8 indexed citations
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Thompson, Patrick L., Laura Melissa Guzman, Luc De Meester, et al.. (2020). A process‐based metacommunity framework linking local and regional scale community ecology. Ecology Letters. 23(9). 1314–1329. 204 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leibold, Mathew A., Mark C. Urban, Luc De Meester, Christopher A. Klausmeier, & Joost Vanoverbeke. (2019). Regional neutrality evolves through local adaptive niche evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(7). 2612–2617. 40 indexed citations
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Lemmens, Pieter, Aaike De Wever, Jochen Vandekerkhove, et al.. (2018). Database on environmental conditions and biodiversity in shallow lakes in Belgium and the Netherlands. Lirias (KU Leuven). 1–9. 1 indexed citations
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Lemmens, Pieter, Joachim Mergeay, Dirk Ercken, et al.. (2017). Database on local environmental conditions and biodiversity in fish ponds in Midden-Limburg, Belgium. Lirias (KU Leuven). 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Peter, Hannes, Erik Jeppesen, Luc De Meester, & Rubén Sommaruga. (2017). Changes in bacterioplankton community structure during early lake ontogeny resulting from the retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The ISME Journal. 12(2). 544–555. 23 indexed citations
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Kosten, Sarian, Vera L. M. Huszar, Eloy Bécares, et al.. (2011). Warmer climates boost cyanobacterial dominance in shallow lakes. Global Change Biology. 18(1). 118–126. 689 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vyverman, Wim & Luc De Meester. (1994). Limnological features of four coastal lakes in the Madang area, Papua New Guinea. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations
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Meester, Luc De, Joris Vandenberghe, Konjev Desender, & Henri J. Dumont. (1994). GENOTYPE-DEPENDENT DAYTIME VERTICAL-DISTRIBUTION OF DAPHNIA-MAGNA IN A SHALLOW POND.. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 13 indexed citations
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Meester, Luc De. (1994). Habitat partitioning in Daphnia: Coexistence of Daphnia magna clones differing in phototactic behaviour. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 5 indexed citations
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Meester, Luc De & Robert Bosmans. (1993). Eurycercus glacialis (Crustacea, Anomopoda): a chydorid cladoceran new to the Belgian fauna. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations
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Meester, Luc De. (1993). On the geneücal ecology of phototaclic behaviour in Daphnia magna (Crustacea: Cladocera). Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations
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Meester, Luc De. (1993). The vertical distribution of Daphnia magna genotypes selected for different phototactic behaviour: Outdoor experiments. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 16 indexed citations

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