Dr W.C.E.P. Verberk (Wilco)

Associate professor - Ecology

Contact

w.verberk@science.ru.nl

Visiting address

Heyendaalseweg 135
6525 AJ NIJMEGEN
Internal postal code: 30

Postal address

Postbus 9010
6500 GL NIJMEGEN

Wilco Verberk is an Associate Professor at RIBES. His research takes place at the interface of ecology and physiology and focuses on how aquatic animals are adapted to their environment. Wilco is particularly interested in how warming and water quality affect animals that differ in body size.

Tags: Water Insect Fish Climate Adaptation

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Verberk, W.C.E.P., Hoefnagel, K.N., Peralta-Maraver, I., Floury, M. & Rezende, E. (2023). Long-term forecast of thermal mortality with climate warming in riverine amphipods. Global Change Biology, 29 (17), 5033-5043. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16834 Full text
Verberk, W.C.E.P., Sandker, J.F., van de Pol, I.L.E., Urbina, M.A., Wilson, R.W., McKenzie, D.J. & Leiva, F.P. (2022). Body mass and cell size shape the tolerance of fishes to low oxygen in a temperature-dependent manner. Global Change Biology, 28 (19), 5695-5707. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16319 Full text
Verberk, W.C.E.P., Atkinson, D., Hoefnagel, K.N., Hirst, A.G., Horne, C.R. & Siepel, H. (2021). Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature-size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen. Biological Reviews, 96 (1), 247-268. doi: 10.1111/brv.12653 Full text
Verberk, W.C.E.P., Calosi, P., Bruschoux, F., Spicer, John, I., Garland, Theodore, J. & Bilton, D.T. (2020). Universal metabolic constraints shape the evolutionary ecology of diving in animals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences, 287 (1927):20200488. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0488 Full text
Verberk, W.C.E.P., Overgaard, J., Ern, R., Bayley, M., Wang, T., Boardman, L. & Terblanche, J.S. (2016). Does oxygen limit thermal tolerance in arthropods? A critical review of current evidence. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 192, 64-78. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2015.10.020 Full text
Verberk, W.C.E.P., Noordwijk, C.G.E. van & Hildrew, A.G. (2013). Delivering on a promise: integrating species traits to transform descriptive community ecology into a predictive science. Freshwater Science, 32 (2), 531-547. doi: 10.1899/12-092.1 Full text
Verberk, W.C.E.P., Bilton, D.T., Calosi, P. & Spicer, J.I. (2011). Oxygen supply in aquatic ectotherms: Partial pressure and solubility together explain biodiversity and size patterns. Ecology, 92 (8), 1565-1572. doi: 10.1890/10-2369.1 Full text

Dr W.C.E.P. Verberk (Wilco)

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