Curriculum Vitae
Educational/employment Background
- 2006 - present: Post doc, Netherlands Institute of Ecology
- 2005 - 2006: Post doc, Centre for Agricultural Research, Merelbeke, Belgium
- 2003 - 2005: Post doc, Institute for Grassland and Environmental Research, Aberystwyth, UK
- 1999 - 2003: PhD, Role of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in the defense against fungi, Leiden University, NL
- 1993-1998: MSc, Wageningen University, NL
Projects
SOILSERVICE
The aim of SOILSERVICE is to understand how economic drivers will change current and future use of soil-related ecosystem services and how they affect diversity and sustainability of agricultural soils.
Research period: 2008-2011
Funding: EU
http://www.kem.ekol.lu.se/soilservice/index.html
Functional biodiversity in agriculture
Functional biodiversity in agricultural production systems: a synthesis of studies on linking above- and belowground multitrophic interactions and consequences for crop protection.
Research period: 2006-2008
Funding: NWO
ECOTRAIN
Ecology of plant parasitic nematodes, their host plants and antagonists in European coastal dunes: Training opportunity for ecologists and agricultural biocontrol researchers
Research period: 2003-2006
Funding: EU
Selected Publications
Hol WHG, Meyer KM, van der Putten WH 2011 Idiosyncrasy in ecology – what’s in a word? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9: 431-433.
Hol WHG 2011 The effect of nutrients on pyrrolizidine alkaloids in Senecio plants and their interactions with herbivores and pathogens Phytochemistry reviews 10: 119-126
Garbeva P, Hol WHG, Termorshuizen AJ, Kowalchuk GA, de Boer W 2011 Fungistasis and general soil biostasis – A new synthesis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43: 469-477.
Hol WHG, de Boer W, Termorshuizen, AJ, Meyer KM, Schneider JHM, van Dam NM, van Veen JA, van der Putten WH 2010 Reduction of rare soil microbes modifies plant-herbivore interactions Ecology Letters 13: 292-301
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