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  1. Symposium success reveals huge potential of rewilding

    News
    09/12/2020 With over 2000 participants, the enormous interest in last week’s Rewilding Symposium shows that rewilding is being increasingly embraced as a progressive approach to conservation.
    Symposium benoeming Liesbeth Bakker

  2. Liesbeth Bakker appointed as Europe's first professor of rewilding

    News
    23/04/2020 NIOO-researcher Liesbeth Bakker has been appointed Special Professor of Rewilding Ecology at Wageningen UR.
    Liesbeth Bakker

  3. "Rewilding landscapes can help to solve more than one problem"

    Press release
    Urbanisation, biodiversity loss, climate change: just some of the worldwide problems 'rewilding' - i.e. restoring food chains by returning 'missing' species to the landscape - can help tackle
    Een kudde wisenten in de Kennemerduinen

  4. Enhancing Soil Biodiversity

    At NIOO, we are on a mission to explore the strange world beneath our feet, to seek out new soil-borne life, uncover new miniature civilisations, and to boldly take humankind where it could not go before.
    Background dossier bodembiodiversiteit

  5. Marker Wadden

    Facility
    Large fresh water areas
    NIOO-KNAW
    The Marker Wadden is a newly constructed archipelago in lake Markermeer, which aims to improve the lake’s degrading food web by stimulating primary productivity. The archipelago consists of five islands that add a currently missing habitat type to the lake: shallow, sheltered waters with high nutrient availability and gradual land-water transitions.
    Marker Wadden 2018

  6. Liesbeth Bakker's inaugural address & Rewilding Symposium

    Event
    On 29 September, Liesbeth Bakker (senior researcher, NIOO-KNAW dept. of Aquatic Ecology) will deliver her inaugural address as Special Professor of Rewilding Ecology at Wageningen University & Research.
    Rewilding Symposium programme

  7. Rewilding-professor Liesbeth Bakker: "Let nature surprise you"

    News
    Let nature have its way and it will surprise you, NIOO-researcher Liesbeth Bakker said at her inauguration in Wageningen on 30 September as Europe's first professor of Rewilding Ecology.
    Rewilding symposium inaugurele rede Liesbeth Bakker

  8. Light Pollution

    Illumination of forest edges leads to a decrease in moth numbers and changes in the behaviour and success of bigger day as well as night-active animals in the long run. What did we find out at NIOO and what can we do with these results?
    Licht op natuur veldlocatie

  9. NIOO Theme Sustainable use of land and water

    Healthy surface water and soils are essential for life on earth. They provide a range of life-supporting functions, including carbon storage, oxygen generation, and nutrient cycling. At NIOO, we combine research on the ecosystem services provided to society with research on how these ecosystem services are impacted by society.
    Studying the ecology of crops

  10. A living, breathing building

    As sustainable as possible, in as many respects as possible: that was the imperative when the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) commissioned a new building. And we have done it!
    Gebouw NIOO-KNAW met paarse bloemen