Renske Vroom

Areas of work

  • Greenhouse gas exchange in wetlands
  • Biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling
  • Peatland rewetting and paludiculture
  • Plant-mediated methane dynamics
Educational and professional career

2019 - 2024
PhD Candidate, Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2022 - 2023
Visiting researcher (5 months), Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin 

2019 - 2020
Visiting researcher (4 months), Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil 

2017 - 2019
Junior Researcher, Department of Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2014 - 2016
MSc Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

2010 - 2013
BSc Biology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Publications

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

  • Bodmer P, Vroom RJE, Stepina T, Del Giorgio PA, Kosten S (2024) Methane dynamics in vegetated habitats in inland waters: quantification, regulation, and global significance. Frontiers in Water 5, 1332968. DOI:10.3389/FRWA.2023.1332968
  • Vroom RJE, Smolders AJP, Van de Riet BP, Lamers LPM, Güngör E, Krosse S, Verheggen-Kleinheerenbrink GM, Van der Wal NR, Kosten S (2024) Azolla cultivation enables phosphate extraction from inundated former agricultural soils. Water Research 254, 121411. DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2024.121411
  • Boonman CCF, Heuts TS, Vroom RJE, Geurts JJM, Fritz C (2023) Wetland plant development overrides nitrogen effects on initial methane emissions after peat rewetting. Aquat Bot 184: 103598. DOI:10.1016/j.aquabot.2022.103598
  • Käärmelahti, SA, Temmink, RJM, van Dijk, G, Prager, A, Kohl, M, Gaudig, G, Koks, AHW, Liu, W, Vroom, RJE, Gerwing, K, Peters, CJH, Krebs, M, Fritz, C (2023) Nutrient dynamics of 12 Sphagnum species during establishment on a rewetted bog. Plant Biol 25, 715–726. DOI:101111/plb13534
  • Quadra, GR, Boonman, CCF, Vroom, RJE, Temmink, RJM, Smolders, AJP, Geurts, JJM, Aben, RCH, Weideveld, STJ, Fritz, C (2023) Removing 10 cm of degraded peat mitigates unwanted effects of peatland rewetting: a mesocosm study. Biogeochemistry. DOI:10.1007/s10533-022-01007-6
  • Tak DBY, Vroom RJE, Lexmond R, Lamers LPM, Robroek BJM, Temmink RJM (2023) Water level and vegetation type control carbon fluxes in a newly-constructed soft-sediment wetland. Wetland Ecology and Management 31, 583–594. DOI: 101007/s11273-023-09936-1
  • Temmink, RJM, Vroom, RJE, van Dijk, G, Käärmelahti, SA, Koks, AHW, Joosten, H, Krebs, M, Gaudig, G, Brust, K, Lamers, LPM, Smolders, AJP, Fritz, C (2023) Restoring organic matter, carbon and nutrient accumulation in degraded peatlands: 10 years Sphagnum paludiculture. Biogeochemistry 1–15. DOI: 101007/s10533-023-01065-4
  • Vroom RJE, Kosten S, Almeida RM, Mendonça R, Muzitano IS, Barbosa I, Nasário J, Oliveira Junior ES, Flecker AS, Barros N (2023) Widespread dominance of methane ebullition over diffusion in freshwater aquaculture ponds. Frontiers in Water 5, 1256799. DOI:10.3389/frwa.2023.1256799
  • Vroom RJE, van den Berg M, Pangala SR, van der Scheer OE, Sorrell BK (2022) Physiological processes affecting methane transport by wetland vegetation - a review. Aquatic Botany 182: 103547. DOI:10.1016/j.aquabot.2022.103547
  • Vroom RJE, Geurts JJM, Nouta R, Borst ACW, Lamers LPM, Fritz C (2022) Paludiculture crops and nitrogen kick-start ecosystem service provisioning in rewetted peat soils. Plant and Soil. DOI:10.1007/s11104-022-05339-y
  • Kosten, S, Almeida, RM, Barbosa, I, Mendonça, R, Santos Muzitano, I, Sobreira Oliveira-Junior, E, Vroom, RJE, Wang, HJ, Barros, N (2020) Better assessments of greenhouse gas emissions from global fish ponds needed to adequately evaluate aquaculture footprint. Science of the Total Environment 748. DOI:101016/jscitotenv2020141247
  • Vroom, RJE, Temmink, RJM, van Dijk, G, Joosten, H, Lamers, LPM, Smolders, AJP, Krebs, M, Gaudig, G, Fritz, C (2020) Nutrient dynamics of Sphagnum farming on rewetted bog grassland in NW Germany. Science of the Total Environment 726, 138470. DOI:101016/jscitotenv2020138470
  • Pijlman, J, Geurts, J, Vroom, R, Bestman, M, Fritz, C, van Eekeren, N (2019) The effects of harvest date and frequency on the yield, nutritional value and mineral content of the paludiculture crop cattail (Typha latifolia L) in the first year after planting. Mires and Peat 25. DOI:1019189/MaP2017OMB325
  • Vroom RJE, Xie, F, Geurts J, Chojnowska A, Smolders AJP, Lamers LPM, Fritz C (2018) Typha latifolia paludiculture effectively improves water quality and reduces greenhouse gas emissions in rewetted peatlands. Ecological Engineering 124, 88-98. DOI:101016/jecoleng201809008
  • Vroom RJE, Koelmans AA, Besseling E, Halsband C (2017) Aging of microplastics promotes their ingestion by marine zooplankton. Environmental Pollution 231. DOI:101016/jenvpol201708088