Dag Treer

Postdoctoral researcher

Biography

With my research, together with my colleagues, I aim to come up with tools with which agriwilding - restoring ecosystems and habitats for wildlife while maintaining a level of agricultural production – can be made successful. I have been investigating yield, crop diversity, pollination success and pollinator diversity in the framework of agriwilding research. My focus is on highly productive crops requiring little management. This can make them suitable productive elements within agriwilding systems.

Selected publications

While fully dedicated to research on agriwilding, my scientific career stems from herpetology and sex pheromone research where currently most of my selected publications originate:

Bossuyt F, Maex M, Treer D, Schulte LM, Van Bocxlaer I, Janssenswillen S (2019) Chemistry between salamanders: Evolution of the SPF courtship pheromone system in Salamandridae. In CD Buesching (ed.): Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 14, pp. 205-220.

Treer D, Maex M, Van Bocxlaer I, Proost P, Bossuyt F (2018) Divergence of species-specific protein sex pheromone blends in two related, nonhybridizing newts (Salamandridae). Molecular ecology 27, 508-519.

Van Bocxlaer I, Treer D*, Maex M, Vandebergh W, Janssenswillen S, Stegen G, Kok P, Willaert B, Matthijs S, Martens, E, Mortier A, de Greve H, Proost P, Bossuyt F (2015) Side-by-side secretion of Late Palaeozoic diverged courtship pheromones in an aquatic salamander. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282: 20142960.

Location

4G110

VUB Main Campus

Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium