Prof. Dirk Verschuren

Contact address

Full Professor

Ghent University

Limnology Unit, Department of Biology

K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35

B-9000

Gent

Belgium

Phone

+32 (0)9 264 5262

dirk.verschuren [at] ugent.be

ECN Member

https://www.ugent.be/we/biology/en/research/limnology

Overview / specialty

Quaternary paleoclimatology of Africa; long-term dynamics (years to millennia) of aquatic communities and ecosystem function in African lakes, using biological, sedimentological and geochemical tracers extracted from high-resolution lake-sediment records.

Expertise & Interests

PAGES interests

Aquatic Transitions

LandCover6k

Topics

Climate dynamics

Ecosystem processes

Human impacts & interactions

Interannual-decadal varaibility

Monsoon

Proxy development

Timescales

Anthropocene (last 100 years)

Holocene

Last millennia

Last glacial cycle

Observational period