Willem H. De Smet

University of Antwerp — Belgium

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics(36), Marine Biology and Ecology Research(21), Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology(15), Marine and coastal ecosystems(12), Lichen and fungal ecology(12)

Publications83 total

Ontogeny of the jaws of monogonont rotifers: the malleate trophi of Rhinoglena and Proalides (Ploima, Epiphanidae)
BioOne Complete (BioOne)·2024· 3 cited
On the terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate diversity of the High Arctic archipelago of Svalbard: a revised species inventory and synopsis of the community composition
Arctic Science·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Freshwater tardigrades from Hopen, Svalbard (76°31'N)
Fauna norvegica·2024Open Access
Diversity, Composition and Environmental Relations of Periphytic Rotifer Assemblages in Lentic Freshwater Bodies (Flanders, Lower Belgium)
Diversity·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Thalassic Rotifers from the United States: Descriptions of Two New Species and Notes on the Effect of Salinity and Ecosystem on Biodiversity
Diversity·2020· 6 citedOpen Access
A data set on the distribution of Rotifera in Antarctica
Biogeographia – The Journal of Integrative Biogeography·2019· 19 citedOpen Access
The terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Edgeøya, Svalbard: Arctic landscape community composition reflects biogeography patterns
Polar Biology·2019· 13 citedOpen Access
Cotylegaleata iskenderunensis n. sp., the second known species of the rotifer family Cotylegaleatidae (Monogononta: Ploima)
Zootaxa·2016· 1 citedOpen Access
Epibiotic rotifers of Gammarus pulex (L.) (Crustacea, Amphipoda), with descriptions of two new species and notes on the terminology of the trophi
Zootaxa·2016· 7 citedOpen Access
Period of public commentary begins on the revised proposal of species-group level names, and on the proposal of genus-group level names of the Candidate Part of List of Available Names (LAN) in the phylum Rotifera
Zootaxa·2016· 7 citedOpen Access
Period of public commentary begins on the revised proposal of species-group level names, and on the proposal of genus-group level names of the Candidate Part of List of Available Names (LAN) in the phylum Rotifera
European Journal of Taxonomy·2015· 3 citedOpen Access
Rotifera from the Mediterranean Sea, with description of ten new species 
Zootaxa·2015· 4 citedOpen Access
Description of Pseudingolfiella possessionis n. sp. (Crustacea, Amphipoda) <br />from sub-Antarctic Île de La Possession, Crozet archipelago: the second <br />freshwater amphipod known from the Antarctic biome, a human introduction of Gondwanan ancestry?
Zootaxa·2015
Diversity gradients of rotifer species richness in Antarctica
Hydrobiologia·2015· 36 cited
4. Rotifera
2014· 24 cited
Encentrum Essexis Sp. N. (Monogononta: Dicranophoridae), A New Rotifer Inhabiting Stream Benthos From East England
Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)·2014Open Access
The terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate biodiversity of the archipelagoes of the Barents Sea; Svalbard, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya
Soil Biology and Biochemistry·2013· 139 cited
Cryptic diversity with wide salinity tolerance in the putative euryhaline<i>Testudinella clypeata</i>(Rotifera, Monogononta)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society·2013· 41 cited
Patterns of Diversity in Soft-Bodied Meiofauna: Dispersal Ability and Body Size Matter
PLoS ONE·2012· 157 citedOpen Access
Towards a List of Available Names in Zoology, partim Phylum Rotifera
Zootaxa·2012· 50 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Diego Fontaneto(10), E. A. Van Rompu(6), Louis Beyens(5), Hendrik Segers(4), Christian D. Jersabek(4), Francesca Leasi(3), Εvangelia Μichaloudi(3), Robert L. Wallace(3), María Luisa Ávila-Jiménez(2), Torbjørn Ekrem(2), Arne Fjellberg(2), Dariusz J. Gwiazdowicz(2), Torstein Solhøy(2), Elisabeth Stur(2), C. E. C. Fischer(2), Nataliia Iakovenko(2), Marco Curini‐Galletti(1), Tom Artois(1), Valentina Delogu(1), Ulf Jondelius(1)