Publications

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2023

  • Gereau R.E., Kativu S., Meerts P., Merrett L. Osborne J., Vollesen K. 2023. Chlorophytum vespertinum (Asparagaceae, Anthericeae), a new species from Zambia and Tanzania. Novon 31: 181-190.
  • Numbi Mujike D, Meerts P., Mbinga Lokoto B. and Ngoy Shutcha M. 2023. Four multipurpose species of Vitex (Lamiaceae) from D.R. Congo show different responses to propagation techniques for nursery production. Bois et Forêts des Tropiques 357 : 43-56
  • Meerts P. 2023. The genus Clerodendrum (Lamiaceae) in the flora of Central Africa (D.R. Congo, Rwanda, Burundi). Phytotaxa 594 (1): 1–42.

2022

  • Kasekete D.K., Ligot G., Mweru J.P.M., Drouet T., Rousseau M., Moango A., & Bourland N. (2022). Growth, productivity, biomass and carbon stock in Eucalyptus saligna and Grevillea robusta plantations in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Forests 13(9): 1508.
  • Meerts P., Bordbar F. & Reyserhove L. 2022. The checklist of alien seed plants of D.R. Congo, based on evidence from herbarium collections. Global Biodiversity Information Facility, 2-Jun-2022.
  • Kasekete D.K., Kakule Kimbuluma C., Bourland N., Drouet T., Makana J.-R., Vasombolwa K., Mate J.-P. (2022). Plantations monospécifiques d’espèces exotiques, déserts biologiques ou îlots de diversité floristique ? Exemple de situations biotiques et abiotiques contrastées au Nord-Kivu en République démocratique du Congo. Bois et Forêts des Tropiques 352: 71-88.
  • Boom A.F., Migliore J., Kaymak E., Meerts P. & Hardy O.J. 2022. Nuclear ribosomal phylogeny of Brachystegia: new markers for new insights about rain forests and Miombo woodlands evolution. Plant Ecology and Evolution 155(2): 301—314.
  • Makemba R.N., Moupela C., Tosso F., Brostaux Y., Drouet T., Oslisly R., … & Doucet J.L. (2022). New evidence on the role of past human activities and edaphic factors on the fine-scale distribution of an important timber species: Cylicodiscus gabunensis Harms. Forest Ecology and Management 521: 120440.
  • Meerts P. & Sosef M.S.M. 2022. (2911) Proposal to conserve the name Clerodendrum umbellatum (Labiatae) with a conserved type. Taxon 71(4): 914-915.

2021

  • Beyns R., Bauman D., Drouet T. (2021). Fine scale tree spatial patterns are shaped by dispersal limitation which correlates to functional traits in a natural temperate forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 32(4): e13070.
  • Ryan C.M., Archibald S., Bauman D., Meerts P., Syampugani S., Gotore T., Godlee J.L., Chidumayo E., Muledi J.I., Bowers S., Twine W. (The SEOSAW partnership) 2021. A network to understand the changing socio‐ecology of the southern African woodlands (SEOSAW) Challenges, benefits, and methods. Plants, People, Planet 3: 249–267.
  • Loubota Panzou G.J., …, Drouet T., …, Feldpausch T.R. 2021. Environmental factors explain intercontinental differences in pantropical tree crown allometry. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30(2): 459–475.

2020

  • Cuma Mushagalusa F., Bauman D., Ngoy Shutcha M., Meerts P. 2020. Trait divergence of woody species in relation to affinity for termite mounds in Upper Katanga (DR Congo). Journal of Vegetation Science 31(1): 162–172.
  • Delhaye G., Séleck M., Ilunga Wa Ilunga E., Mahy G., Meerts P. 2020. Plant community assembly along a natural metal gradient in central Africa: functional and phylogenetic approach. Journal of Vegetation Science 31(1): 151–161.
  • Muledi J., Bauman D., Jacobs A., Meerts P., Shutcha M., Drouet T. 2020. Tree growth, recruitment, and survival in a tropical dry woodland: the importance of soil and functional identity of the neighbourhood. Forest Ecology and Management 460: 117894.
  • Nduwarugira D., Drouet T., François Havyarimana, Roisin Y. 2020. What factors influence the occurrence of Cubitermes pallidiceps in miombo woodlands in southwestern Burundi?Pedobiologia 80: 150646.
  • Vleminckx J., Hardy O.J., Demanet M., Doucet J.-L., Drouet T. 2020. First evidence of the influence of past human disturbance on the distribution of pioneer trees in central African tropical forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 31: 440–453.

2019

  • Bauman D., Vleminckx J., Hardy O.J., Drouet T. 2019. Testing and interpreting the joint space-environment fraction in variation partitioning analyses of ecological data. Oikos 128: 274–285.
  • Hellemans S., Marynowska M., Drouet T., Lepoint G., Fournier D., Calusinska M., Roisin Y. 2019. Nest composition, stable isotope ratios and microbiota unravel the feeding behaviour of an inquiline termite. Oecologia 191(3): 541–553.
  • Jacobs A., Noret N., Van Baekel A., Liénard A., Colinet G., Drouet T. 2019. Influence of edaphic conditions and nitrogen fertilizers on Cd and Zn phytoextraction efficiency with Noccaea caerulescens. Science of the Total Environment 665: 649–659.
  • Ligot G., Fayolle A., Gourlet-Fleury S., Dainou K., Gillet J.-F., De Ridder M., Drouet T., Groenendijk P., Doucet J.-L. 2019. Growth determinants of timber species Triplochiton scleroxylon and their implications for forest management in central Africa. Forest Ecology and Management 437 (1): 211–221.
  • Meerts P., Farminhão J.N.M. 2019. Uapaca kirkiana (Phyllanthaceae) and its relatives in the northwest of the Zambezian region. Kew Bulletin 74: 38.

2018

  • Bauman D., Drouet T., Dray S., Vleminckx J. 2018. Disentangling good from bad practices in the selection of spatial or phylogenetic eigenvectors. Ecography 41: 1638–1649
  • Bauman D., Drouet T., Fortin M.-J., Dray S. 2018. Optimising the choice of a spatial weighting matrix in eigenvector-based methods. Ecology 99 (10): 2159–2166.
  • Cuma Mushagalusa F., Bauman D., Mujinya Bazirake B., Mleci Y., Kalenga M., Ngoy Shutcha M., Meerts P. 2018. Edaphic specialisation in relation to termite mounds in Katanga (DR. Congo): a reciprocal transplant experiment with congeneric tree species. Journal of Vegetation Science 29: 921–932.
  • Delhaye G., Lange B., Faucon M.-P., Grandjean C., Mahy G., Meerts P. 2018. Functional traits of a broad-niched metallophyte along a toxicity gradient: disentangling intra and inter-population variation. Environmental and Experimental Botany 156: 240–247.
  • Farminhão J.N.M., Meerts P., Descourvières P., Droissart V., Simo-Droissart M., Stévart T. 2018. A revised concept of Rhipidoglossum (Angraecinae, Orchidaceae). Phytotaxa 349 (3): 247–256.
  • Jacobs A., De Brabandere L., Drouet T., Sterckeman T., Noret N. 2018. Phytoextraction of Cd and Zn with Noccaea caerulescens for urban soils remediation: influence of nitrogen fertilisation and planting density. Ecological Engineering 116: 178–187.
  • Jacobs A., Drouet T., Noret N. 2018. Field evaluation of cultural cycles for improved cadmium and zinc phytoextraction with Noccaea caerulescens. Plant and Soil 430 (1-2): 381–394.
  • Lange B., Delhaye, G., Boisson S., Verbruggen N., Meerts P., Faucon M.-P. 2018. Variation in copper and cobalt tolerance and accumulation among six populations of the facultative metallophyte Anisopappus chinensis (Asteraceae). Environmental and Experimental Botany 153: 1–9.
  • Meerts P. 2018. Typification of Chlorophytum (Asparagaceae) taxon names from Angola: a critical reappraisal and new combinations. Taxon 67(2): 401–410.
  • Meerts P. 2018. Synopsis of the genus Vitex (Lamiaceae) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Plant Ecology and Evolution 151(3): 380–392.
  • Souard F., Delporte C., Stoffelen P., Thévenot E. A., Noret N., Dauvergne, B., Stevigny, C. 2018. Metabolomics fingerprint of coffee species determined by untargeted-profiling study using LC-HRMS. Food Chemistry 245: 603–612.

2017

  • Gonneau C., Noret N., Godé C., Frérot H., Sirguey C., Sterckeman T., Pauwels, M. 2017. Demographic history of the trace metal hyperaccumulator Noccaea caerulescens (J. Presl and C. Presl) F. K. Mey. in Western Europe. Molecular Ecology 26: 904–922.
  • Gonneau C., Noret N., Godé C., Kitt J., Sirguey C., Sterckeman T., Koch M.A., Pauwels M. 2017. Design and validation of sixteen single nucleotide polymorphism to investigate plastid DNA sequence variation in Noccaea caerulescens (Brassicaceae). Conservation Genetics Resources 9(1): 67–71.
  • Jacobs A., Drouet T., Sterckeman T., Noret N. 2017. Phytoremediation of urban soils contaminated with trace metals using nonmetallicolous populations of Noccaea caerulescens: effect of origin of plants and compost in field trials. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 24: 8176–8188.
  • Lange B., van der Ent A., Baker A.J.M., Echevarria G., Mahy G., Malaisse F., Meerts P., Pourret O., Verbruggen N., Faucon M.-P. 2017. Copper and cobalt accumulation in plants: a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge. New Phytologist 213: 537–551.
  • Lange B., Faucon M.-P., Delhaye G., Hamiti N., Meerts P. 2017. Functional traits of a facultative metallophyte from tropical Africa: population variation and plasticity in response to cobalt. Environmental and Experimental Botany 136: 1–8.
  • Libalah M.B., Droissart V., Sonké B., Hardy O.J., Drouet T., Pescador D.S., Kenfack D., Thomas D.W., Chuyong G.B., Couteron P. 2017. Shift in functional structure along soil fertility gradient partly reflects non-random community processes in a tropical African rainforest. Plant Ecology and Evolution 150(3): 265-278.
  • Meerts P. 2017. Geoxylic suffrutices of African savannas: short but remarkably similar to trees. Journal of Tropical Ecology 33(4): 295–298.
  • Meerts P., Rougelot Q., Sosef M. 2017. Revision of the genus Monotes (Dipterocarpaceae) in D.R. Congo, with implications for Angola and its distinction from Marquesia. Phytotaxa 308(2): 151–205.
  • Muledi J.I., Bauman D., Drouet T., Vleminckx J., Jacobs A., Lejoly J., Meerts P., Ngoy Shutcha M. 2017. Fine-scale habitats influence tree species assemblage in a Miombo forest. Journal of Plant Ecology10(6): 958–969.
  • Sosef M.S.M., Dauby G., Blach-Overgaard A., van der Burgt X., Catarino L., Damen T., Deblauwe V., Dessein S., Dransfield J., Droissart V., Duarte M.C., Engledow H., Fadeur G., Figueira R., Gereau R.E., Hardy O.J., Harris D.J., de Heij J., Janssens S., Klomberg Y., Ley A.C., Mackinder B.A., Meerts P., van de Poel J.L., Sonké B., Stévart T., Stoffelen P., Svenning J.-C., Sepulchre P., Zaiss R., Wieringa J.J., Couvreur T.L.P. 2017. Exploring the floristic diversity of tropical Africa. BMC Biology 15: 15
  • Vleminckx J., Doucet J.-L., Bauman D., Hardy O.J., Morin-Rivat J., Biwolé A.B., Fayolle A., Gillet J.-F., Daïnou K., Gorel A., Drouet T. 2017. The influence of spatially structured soil properties on tree community assemblages at a landscape scale in the tropical forests of southern Cameroon. Journal of Ecology 105: 354–366.

2016

  • Bauman D., Raspé O., Meerts P., Degreef J., Ilunga Muledi J., Drouet T. 2016. Multiscale assemblage of an ectomycorrhizal fungal community: The influence of host functional traits and soil properties in a 10-ha miombo forest. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 92: fiw151.
  • Dauby G, Zaiss R, Blach-Overgaard A, et al. 2016. RAINBIO: a mega-database of tropical African vascular plants distributions. PhytoKeys 74: 1-18.
  • Delhaye, G., Violle, C., Séleck, M., Ilunga wa Ilunga, E., Daubie, I., Mahy, G. and Meerts, P. 2016. Community variation in plant traits along copper and cobalt gradients. Journal of Vegetation Science 27: 854–864.
  • Faucon M.-P., Le Stradic S., Boisson S., Ilunga wa Ilunga E., Séleck M., Lange B., Delhaye G., Ngoy Shutcha M., Pourret O., Meerts P., Mahy G. 2016. Implication of plant-soil relationships for conservation and restoration of copper-cobalt ecosystems. Plant and Soil 403: 153–165.
  • Fayolle A., Loubota Panzou G.J., Drouet T., Swaine M.D., Bauwens S., Vleminckx J., Biwolé A.B., Lejeune P., Doucet J.-L. 2016. Taller trees, denser stands and greater biomass in semi-deciduous than in evergreen lowland central African forests. Forest Ecology and Management 374: 42–50.
  • Ječmenica V., Droissart V., Noret N., Stévart T. 2016. Taxonomy of Atlantic Central African orchids 5. A new species of Angraecum sect. Conchoglossum (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae) from Gabon and Cameroon. PhytoKeys 61: 61–71.
  • Kindomihou, V.M., Sinsin, B., Holou, R.A.Y., Ambouta K.J.M., Gruber W., Adjolohoun S., Houinato M., Herbauts J., Lejoly J., Meerts P. 2016. Silicon 8: 487–496.
  • Lange B., Pourret O., Meerts P., Jitaru P., Cancès B., Grisond C., Faucon M.-P. 2016. Copper and cobalt mobility in soil and accumulation in a metallophyte as influenced by experimental manipulation of soil chemical factors. Chemosphere 146: 75–84.
  • Meerts P. 2016. An annotated checklist to the trees and shrubs of the Upper Katanga. Phytotaxa 258: 201–250.

2015

  • Bourguignon T., Drouet T., Šobotník J., Hanus R., Roisin Y. 2015. Influence of soil properties on soldierless termite distribution. PloS One 10(8): e0135341.
  • Couder E., Mattielli N., Drouet T., Smolders E., Delvaux B., Iserentant A., Meeus C., Maerschalk C., Opfergelt S., Houben D. 2015. Transpiration flow controls Zn transport in Brassica napus and Lolium multiflorum under toxic levels as evidenced from isotopic fractionation. Comptes Rendus Geoscience 347(7-8):386–396.
  • D’Haijère T., Leguil S., Meerts P., Stevart T. 2015. Taxonomy of Atlantic Central African orchids 4. A new species of Tridactyle (Vandeae; Epidendroideae, Orchidaceae) from Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Phytotaxa, in press.
  • Drouet T., Herbauts J., Demaiffe D. 2015. Influence of deep soil horizons on Ca nutrition of forest stands along a loessic soil sequence. Plant and Soil 394(1-2): 373–389.
  • Ilunga Wa Ilunga E., Mahy G., Piqueray J., Séleck M., Shutcha M., Meerts P, Faucon M.-P., 2015. Plant functional traits as a promising tool for the ecological restoration of degraded tropical metal-rich habitats and revegetation of metal-rich bare soils: A case study in copper vegetation of Katanga, DRC. Ecological Engineering 82: 214–221.
  • Ngoy Shutcha M., Kamengwa Kissi C., Faucon M.-P., Colinet C., Mahy G., Ngongo Luhembwe M., Visser M., Meerts P. 2015. Three years of phytostabilisation experiment of bare acidic soil extremely contaminated by copper smelting using plant biodiversity of metal-rich soils in tropical Africa (Katanga, DR Congo). Ecological Engineering 82: 81–90.
  • Pourret O., Lange B., Houben D., Colinet G., Shutcha M., Faucon M.P. 2015. Modeling of cobalt and copper speciation in metalliferous soils from Katanga (Democratic Republic of Congo). Journal of Geochemical Exploration DOI 10.1016/j.gexplo.2014.11.011
  • Rodríguez-Gallego C., Navarro T., Meerts P. 2015. A comparative study of leaf trait relationships in coastal dunes in southern Spain. Plant Ecology and Evolution 148 (1): 57–67.
  • Totté A., Delgado A., Navarro T., Meerts P. 2015. Narrow endemics of the Almeria Province (Andalusia, Spain) differ in their traits and ecological niche compared to their more widespread congeners. Folia Geobotanica 50(2): 137–150.
  • Vleminckx J., Drouet T., Amani C., Lisingo J., Lejoly J., Hardy O.J. 2015. Impact of fine-scale edaphic heterogeneity on trees species assembly in a central African rainforest. Journal of Vegetation Science 26: 134–144.
  • Wesselingh R., Meerts P., Robbrecht E. 2015. Second “Annual Meeting on Plant Ecology and Evolution”. Plant Ecology and Evolution 148 (1): 3–4.

2014

  • Lange B., Faucon, Meerts P., Shutcha M., Mahy G., Pourret O. 2014. Prediction of the edaphic factors influence upon the copper and cobalt accumulation in two metallophytes using copper and cobalt speciation in soils. Plant and Soil 379: 275–287.
  • Martellini F., Giorni E., Colzi I., Luti S., Meerts P., Pazzagli L., Gonnelli C. 2014. Can adaptation to metalliferous environments affect plant response to biotic stress? Insight from Silene paradoxa L. and phytoalexins. Environmental and Experimental Botany 108: 38–46.
  • Vleminckx J., Morin-Rivat J., Biwolé A.B., Daïnou K., Gillet J.-F., Doucet J.-L., Drouet T., Hardy O.J. 2014. Soil charcoal to assess the impacts of past Human disturbances on tropical forests. PloS One 9(11): e108 121.