Jan Vermaat is research dean at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management of NMBU. His research interests are aquatic ecology, landscape ecology and ecosystem services.
List of publications from my research. (Cristin)
Publication statistics: over 100 papers in ISI Web-of-Science journals, 20 book chapters and over 30 papers in professional journals since 1984, ISI H-index = 40 (April 2023). ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4250-6790. A selection of papers:
Vermaat J.E., Hootsmans M.J.M. & Van Dijk G.M., 1990. Ecosystem development in different types of littoral enclosures. Hydrobiologia 200/201: 391-398
Vermaat, J.E., Fortes M.D., Agawin N., Duarte C.M., Marba, N., & Uri J., 1995. Meadow maintenance, growth and productivity in a mixed Philippine seagrass bed. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 124: 215-225
Kamp-Nielsen L., Vermaat J.E., Wesseling I., Borum J. & Geertz-Hansen O., 2002. Sediment properties along gradients of siltation in South East Asia. Estuar Coast Shelf Sci. 54: 127-137
Olde Venterink H., Wiegman F., Van der Lee G.E.M. & Vermaat J.E., 2003. Role of active floodplains for nutrient retention in the river Rhine. J Env Qual 32: 1430-1435.
Körner S.,Vermaat J.E. & Veenstra S., 2003. The capacity of duckweed to treat waste water: ecological considerations for a sound design. J Env Qual 32: 1583-1590
Brander L., Vermaat J.E. & Florax R.J.G.M., 2006. The empirics of wetland valuation: a meta-analysis. Env Resource Econ 33: 223-250
Vermaat, J.E., Dunne, J., Gilbert, A.J, 2009. Food web structure properties: can we minimize their number? Ecology 90: 278-282
Vermaat, J.E., 2009. Seagrasses: meadow-forming, clonal angiosperms with a key role in shallow coastal waters. Persp. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst. 11, 137-155
Vermaat, J.E. & Hellmann, F., 2010. Covariance in water- and nutrient budgets of Dutch peat polders: what governs nutrient retention? Biogeochemistry 99:109-126
Dias. A.T.C., Hoorens, B., Van Logtestijn, R.S.P., Vermaat, J.E., & Aerts R. 2010. Plant species composition can be used as a proxy to predict methane emissions in peatlands after land-use changes. Ecosystems 13: 526–538
Maina J, De Moel H, ,Zinke J, Madin J, Vermaat JE, 2013. Counteracting forest conversion and climate change impacts of sediment supply to coral reefs in a global biodiversity hotspot. Nature Communications 4:1986
González-Sanchis, M, Murillo J, Comin, F, Vermaat JE, García-Navarro P, 2015. Modeling sediment deposition and phosphorus retention in a river floodplain. Hydrol Proc. 29, 384-394
Vermaat HE, Ellers J, Helmus M, 2015. An ecological basis for understanding the role of biodiversity in the provision of ecosystem services. In Van Beukering P, Bouma J, (eds) textbook on ecosystem services. Cambridge Univ Press
Hering D; Aroviita J, Baattrup-Pedersen A, Brabec K, Buijse T, Ecke F, Friberg N, Gielczewski M, Januschke K, Köhler J, Kupilas B, Lorenz A, Muhar S, Paillex A, Poppe M, Schmidt T, Schmutz S, Vermaat J, Verdonschot P, Verdonschot R, 2015. Contrasting the roles of section length and instream habitat enhancement for river restoration success: A field study on 20 European restoration projects. J. Appl Ecol 52, 1518-1527
Vermaat JE, Wagtendonk AJ, Brouwer R, Sheremet O, Ansink E, Brockhoff T, Plug M, Hellsten S, Aroviita J, Tylec L, Giełczewski M, Kohut L, Brabec K, Haverkamp J, Poppe M, Böck K, Coerssen M, Segersten J, Hering D, 2016. Assessing the societal benefits of river restoration using the ecosystem services approach. Hydrobiologia 769:121-135
Vermaat JE, Harmsen J, Hellmann F, Van der Geest H, De Klein J, Kosten S, Smolders AJM, Verhoeven JTA, Mes R, Ouboter M, 2016. Annual sulfate budgets for Dutch lowland peat polders: the soil is a major sulfate source through peat and pyrite oxidation. J. Hydrol 533, 515-522
Vermaat JE, Van der Burg P, Bos B, 2016. Decline and re-establishment of water reed stands, a re-evaluation of the role of muskrat herbivory in Dutch peat lakes. Freshwat Biol 61, 1580–1589
Vermaat JE, Van Teeffelen A, Hellmann F, Van Minnen J, Alkemade R, Billeter R, Beierkuhnlein C, Boitani L, Cabeza M, Feld C, Huntley B, Paterson J, Wallis de Vries M, 2017. The climate change – land use change interaction, will it strongly affect European biodiversity? Ambio 46:277–290
Schild JEM, Van Bodegom P, De Groot R, Vermaat JE, Quatrini S, 2018. A global meta-analysis on the monetary valuation of dryland ecosystem services: the role of socio-economic, environmental and methodological indicators. Ecosystem Services 32, 78-89
Ting Zhou, Vermaat JE, Xinli Ke, 2019. Variability of agroecosystems and landscape service provision on the urban-rural fringe of Wuhan, central China. Urban Ecosystems 22, 1207–1214
Vermaat JE, Matzinger A, Trajanovska S, Talevska M, Schneider SC, 2020. Nutrient retention capacity of the littoral vegetation of Lake Ohrid: can it cope with current and future loading? Limnology & Oceanography. doi: 10.1002/lno.11460
Vermaat JE, Piffady J, Putnins A, Kail JE, 2021. The effect of riparian woodland on ecosystem service delivery by the river corridor – a scenario assessment. Ecosphere 12(8) e03716
Thiemer K, Immerzeel B, Schneider SC, Sebola K, Coetzee J, Baldo M, Thiebaut G, Hilt S, Koehler J, Harpenslager SH, Vermaat JE, 2023. Drivers of perceived nuisance growth by aquatic plants. Env. Manage. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-022-01781-x
Immerzeel B, Vermaat JE, Collentine D, Juutinen A, Kronvang B, Skarbøvik E, Vodder Carstensen M, 2023. The value of change: a scenario assessment of the effects of bioeconomy driven land use change on ecosystem service provision. Catena 223, 106902
Vermaat JE, Thiemer K, Immerzeel B, Schneider SC, Sebola K, Petruzzella A, Coetzee J, Baldo M, Misteli B, Thiebaut G, Hilt S, Köhler J, Harpenslager SH, 2024. Effects of managing nuisance abundance of aquatic plants on a suite of ecosystem services. J Appl Ecol. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14539
Jan was head of the department of Environmental Sciences which merged into the current faculty MINA i 2017. He previously worked at IHE Delft and the Institute of Environmental Studies of VU University. At the VU he was professor in Earth Sciences and Economics before he moved to NMBU. He has been editor in chief of the journal Aquatic Botany from 2001-2017.
Jan has a strong interest in cross-disciplinary cooperation.
I am on research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan_Vermaat