Information
- Type
- Organization
- Type
- https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/types#Scientific
- Name
- Unité de recherche en Biologie Environnementale et Evolutive
- Name
- Research unit in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology@en
- Acronym
- Unamur-URBE
- Parent institute
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Université de Namur; Département de Biologie
- Address
- , Rue de Bruxelles 61, 5000 Namur, Belgium
- Contact numbers
-
- Telephone
- +3281724111
- Location
-
- latitude
- 50.4662768
- longitude
- 4.8605283
- Description @en
- The research unit in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology (URBE) studies aquatic organisms and environments (both marine and fresh water), at all integration levels, from molecules to ecosystems. Rather than focusing on specific molecular and cellular approaches of life, URBE investigates the biochemistry, physiology, evolution and ecology of living organisms.
The main research topics include:
- the analyses of physiological, biochemical and molecular responses of organisms to environmental disturbances (pollutions, climate warming, etc.);
- molecular ecology and evolutionary genetics;
- the ecology of microbial, plant and animal communities in lakes and rivers.
Fundamental and applied research is also carried out in the field of aquaculture and on the management of aquatic environments in temperate and tropical regions. - Description @nl
- De unité de recherche en Biologie Environnementale et Evolutive (URBE) bestudeert aquatische organismen en omgevingen (zowel marien als zoet water) op verschillende niveaus van integratie, gaande van moleculen tot ecosystemen. URBE onderzoekt de biochemie, fysiologie, de evolutie en de ecologie van levende organismen, eerder dan te focussen op specifieke moleculaire en cellulaire benaderingen van het leven.
De belangrijkste onderzoeksthema's betreffen:
- de analyse van fysiologische, biochemische en moleculaire reacties van organismen op de verstoring van de omgeving (vervuiling, klimaatopwarming, etc.);
- moleculaire ecologie en evolutionaire genetica;
- de ecologie van microbiële planten en dierengemeenschappen in rivieren en meren.
Er wordt eveneens fundamenteel en toegepast onderzoek verricht in aquacultuur en het beheer van het aquatisch milieu in gematigde en tropische regio's.
Expertise
- Aquaculture
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181481
- Biodiversity
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181484
- Climate change
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181490
- Ecophysiology
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 2633
- Ecosystem functioning
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181495
- Euryhalinity
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 2925
- Freshwater ecology
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 3475
- Microbiology
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181509
- Molecular biology
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181511
- Osmoregulation
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 5873
- Pesticides
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 6100
- Pollutants
- defined term set: MOG Topics
- term code: 181517
- Surface water
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 8244