2023
Fronhofer E.A., Govaert L., O’Connor M.I., Schreiber S.J. and Altermatt F. (2023), The shape of density dependence and the relationship between population growth, intraspecific competition and equilibrium population density, Oikos
Govaert L., Hendry A.P., Fattahi F. and Möst M. (2023), Quantifying interspecific and intraspecific diversity effects on ecosystem functioning, Ecology
Fronhofer E.A., Corenblit D., Deshpande J.N., Govaert L., Huneman P., Viard F., Jarne P., and Puijalon S. (2023), Eco-evolution from deep time to contemporary dynamics: the role of timescales and rate modulators, Ecology Letters
2022
Leibold M.A., Govaert L., Loeuille N., De Meester L. and Urban M.C. (2022), Evolution and community assembly across spatial scales, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 53, 299-326.
Govaert L., Pantel J.H. and De Meester L. (2022), Quantifying eco-evolutionary contributions to trait divergence in spatially structured systems, Ecological Monographs, 92(4), e1531.
Verrelli B., Alberti M., Des Roches S., Harris N.C., Hendry A.P., Johnson M.T.J., Savage A.M., Charmantier A., Gotanda K.M., Govaert L., Miles L.S., Rivkin L.R., Winchell K.M., Brans K.I., Correa C., Diamond S.E., Fitzhugh B., Grimm N.B., Hughes S., Marzluff J.M., Munshi-South J., Rojas C., Santangelo J.S., Schell C.J., Schweitzer J.A., Szulkin M., Urban M.C., Zhou Y. and Ziter C. (2022), A global horizon scan for urban evolutionary ecology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
Gao X., Wang W., Ndayishimiye J.C., Govaert L., Chen H., Jeppesen E., Xue Y., Yu X. and Yang J. (2022), Invasive and toxic cyanobacteria regulate allochthonous resource use and community niche width of reservoir zooplankton, Freshwater Biology, 67(8), 1344-1356.
Bruijning M., Fossen E.I.F., Jongejans E., Vanvelk H., Raeymaekers J.A.M., Govaert L., Brans K.I., Einum S., and De Meester L. (2022), Host-parasite dynamics shaped by temperature and genotype: quantifying the role of underlying vital rates, Functional Ecology, 36(2), 485-499.
Hattich G.S.I., Listmann L., Govaert L., Pansch C., Reusch T.B.H. and Matthiessen B. (2022), Experimentally decomposing total phytoplankton community change into ecological and evolutionary components, Functional Ecology, 36(1), 120-132.
2021
Govaert L., Gilarranz L.J. and Altermatt F. (2021), Community context alters species’ plastic and genetic response to environmental change, Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-14.
Govaert, L., De Meester L., Rousseaux S., Declerck S.A.J. and Pantel J.H. (2021), Measuring the contribution of evolution to community trait structure in freshwater zooplankton, Oikos, 130(10), 1773-1787.
Govaert L., Altermatt F., De Meester L., Leibold M.A., McPeek M., Pantel J.H., and Urban M. (2021), Integrating fundamental processes to understand eco-evolutionary community dynamics and patterns, Functional Ecology, 35(10), 2138-2155.
Thompson C.L., Alberti M., Barve S., Battistuzzi F.U., Drake J.L., Goncalves G.C., Govaert L., Partridge C., and Yang Y. (2021), Back to the future: Reintegrating biology to understand how past eco-evolutionary change can predict future outcomes, Integrative and Comparative Biology, 61(6), 2218-2232.
Zhang C., Jones M., Govaert L., Viant M., De Meester L., and Stoks R. (2021), Resurrecting the metabolome: Rapid evolution magnifies the metabolomic plasticity to predation in a natural Daphnia population, Molecular Ecology 30(10), 2285-2297.
Vanvelk H., Govaert L., Van den Berg E.M., Brans K.I., and De Meester L. (2021), Interspecific differences, plastic, and evolutionary responses to a heat wave in three co‐occurring Daphnia species, Limnology and Oceanography, 66(4), 1201-1220.
Des Roches S., Brans K.I., Lambert M.R., Rivkin L.R., Savage A.M., Schell C.J., Correa C., De Meester L., Diamand S.E., Grimm N.B., Harris N.C., Govaert L., Hendry A.P., Johnson M.T.J., Munshi-South J., Palkovacs E.P., Szulkin M., Urban M.C., Verrelli B.C., and Alberti M. (2021), Socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics in cities, Evolutionary applications, 14(1), 248-267.
2020
Alberti M., Palkovacs E.P., Des Roches S., De Meester L., Brans K.I., Govaert L., Grimm N.B., Harris N.C., Hendry A.P., Schell C.J., Szulkin M., Munshi-South J., Urban M.C., and Verrelli B.C. (2020), The complexity of urban eco-evolutionary dynamics, BioScience 70(9), 772-793
Brans K.I., Govaert L., and De Meester L. (2020), Evolutionary Dynamics of Metacommunities in Urbanized Landscapes, [book chapter] In Urban Evolutionary Biology (pp. 175-196). Oxford University Press.
Piano E., Souffreau C., Merckx T., Baardsen L.F., Backeljau T., Bonte D., Brans K.I., Cours M., Dahirel M., Debortoli N. Decaestecker E., De Wolf K., Engelen J.M.T., Fontaneto D., Gianuca A.T., Govaert L., Hanashiro F.T.T, Higuti J., Lens L., Martens K., Matheve H., Matthysen E., Pinseel E., Sablon R., Schön I., Stoks R., Van Doninck K., Van Dyck, H., Vanormelingen P., Van Wichelen J., Vyverman W., De Meester L. and Hendrickx F., Urbanization drives cross-taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales (2020), Global Change Biology, 26(3), 1196-1211
2019
Gao X., Chen H., Govaert L., Wang W. and Yang J. (2019), Responses of zooplankton body size and community trophic structure to temperature change in a subtropical reservoir, Ecology and Evolution, 9(22), 12544-12555
Schaffner L.R.*, Govaert L.*, De Meester L., Ellner S.P., Fairchild E., Miner B.E., Rudstam L.G., Spaak P. and Hairston N.G. Jr. (2019), Consumer-resource dynamics is an eco-evolutionary process in a natural plankton community, Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3(9), 1351-1358. *shared first authorship
Govaert L.*, Fronhofer E.A.*, Lion S., Eizaguirre C., Bonte D., Egas M., Hendry A.P., De Brito Martins A., Melián C.J, Raeymaekers J.A.M, Ratikainen I.I., Saether B., Schweitzer J.A., and Matthews B. (2019), Eco-evolutionary feedbacks – theoretical models and perspectives. Functional Ecology, 33(1), 13-30; *shared first authorship
De Meester L., Brans K.I., Govaert L., Souffreau C., Mukherjee S., Vanvelk H., Korzeniowski K., Kilsdonk L., Decaestecker E., Stoks R. and Urban M.C. (2019), Analyzing eco-evolutionary dynamics – the challenging complexity of the real world. Functional Ecology, 33(1), 43-59
2018
Govaert L. (2018), Eco-evolutionary partitioning metrics: a practical guide for biologists. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 148(2)
Merckx T., Souffreau C., Aurélien K., Baardsen L.F., Backeljau T., Bonte D., Brans K.I., Cours M., Dahirel M., Debortoli N., Wolf K., Engelen J.M.T., Fontaneto D., Gianuca A.T., Govaert L., Hendrickx F., Higuti J., Lens L., Martens K., Matheve H., Matthysen E., Piano E., Sablon R., Schön I., Doninck K., De Meester L., and Dyck H. (2018), Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities. Nature, 558(7708), 113-116
2017
Teurlincx S., Velthuis M., Seroka D., Govaert L., van Donk E., Van de Waal D.B., and Declerck S.A.J. (2017), Species sorting and stoichiometric plasticity control community C:P ratio of first-order aquatic consumers. Ecology Letters, 20(6), 751-760
Lemmens P., Tefferaa F.E., Wynants M., Govaert L., Deckers J., Bauerd H., Woldeyes F., Brendonck L., Bouillon S. and De Meester L. (2017), Intra- and interspecific niche variation as reconstructed from stable isotopes in two ecologically different Ethiopian Rift Valley lakes. Functional Ecology, 31(7), 1482-1492
Brans K., Govaert L., Engelen J., Gianuca A.T., Souffreau C., and De Meester L. (2017), Eco-evolutionary dynamics in urbanised landscapes: Evolution, species sorting and the change in zooplankton body size along urbanisation gradients. Philosophical Transactions Royal Society B, 372(1712), 20160030
2016
Govaert L., Pantel J.H., and De Meester L. (2016), Eco-evolutionary partitioning metrics: assessing the importance of ecological and evolutionary contributions to population and community change. Ecology Letters, 19(8), 839-853
Stoks R., Govaert L., Pauwels K., Jansen B. and De Meester L. (2016), Resurrecting complexity: the interplay of plasticity and rapid evolution in the multiple trait response to strong changes in predation pressure in the water flea Daphnia magna. Ecology Letters, 19(2), 180-190