11+ hour, 19+ min ago  (189+ words) Choose region and language / Kies regio en taal This is the result of a new study, published by researchers from the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) in Functional Ecology. As a benthic ecologist, Michelle Achlatis likes to say…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (215+ words) Choose region and language / Kies regio en taal "There are many stories about how we are losing biodiversity, so I would like to start with the good news", says Naturalis researcher Kaixuan Pan. Like many biologists, his love for nature…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (455+ words) Choose region and language / Kies regio en taal For more than twenty years, University of Amsterdam researchers have been working with the Royal Netherlands Air Force and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) to measure and forecast bird migration in…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (806+ words) Lesser black-backed gulls from the colony at the Dutch island Neeltje Jans appear to avoid the wind farm off the Zeeland coast. NIOZ ecologist Rosemarie Kentie and her colleagues suspected the gulls were attracted by fishing boats outside the windfarm,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (203+ words) Choose region and language / Kies regio en taal “What strikes us is that biodiversity often receives too little attention in subsidy policy”, says Monica van Alphen, researcher at Wageningen University & Research. “Subsidies are usually designed with economic or social objectives…...

2+ mon, 22+ hour ago  (313+ words) Choose region and language / Kies regio en taal A bioblitz is a way to count species before the work begins. Participants – a mix of IBED researchers and students – were split up into different groups for the day. One group counted…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (483+ words) Choose region and language / Kies regio en taal The study is based on 995 underwater video recordings made between 2012 and 2017, using so-called Baited Remote Underwater Video systems (BRUVs). The research covered seven reef systems across the Caribbean. Cameras were deployed around…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (110+ words) Sommige gegevens die door deze provider worden verzameld, zijn bedoeld voor personalisatie en het meten van de effectiviteit van advertenties. Wij gebruiken geen cookies van dit type Choose region and language / Kies regio en taal That is the message from…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (708+ words) Beavers can turn riverbeds into powerful carbon sinks Nature Today Beavers can turn riverbeds into powerful carbon sinks The new paper, published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, has, for the first time, put a total carbon budget to the engineering…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (255+ words) Choose region and language / Kies regio en taal Notably, mousebirds normally remain within a few hundred metres of their nest during the breeding season. To collect cotton, they therefore travelled greater distances than expected. When nests fall apart after the…...