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  1. 'Excellent' rating for NIOO's Avian Migration Centre

    Press release
    WAGENINGEN - NIOO-KNAW's Centre for Avian Migration and Demography has ringed birds and studied their migration patterns for over a century. In its first-ever peer review, the Centre has been rated 'excellent'.
    houtduiven

  2. Predicting soil biodiversity to make food production more sustainable

    Press release
    Fields and meadows provide a range of key services, as long as the soil is healthy. A group of researchers and companies will study how farmlands can be returned to multifunctionality.
    Microscopie

  3. Live-in bacteria protect plants against infections

    Press release
    Micro-organisms living inside plant roots team up to boost the plant’s growth and tolerance to stress. This research is featured this week in the scientific journal Science.
    Zaailingen van suikerbieten, links goed groeiend door micro-organismen, rechts minder goed groeiend zonder micro-organismen

  4. Datasets

    A data portal has been developed in order to streamline and organise the data and information management of the institute.
    Datasets

  5. King Willem-Alexander to visit NIOO on 6 July

    News
    On 6 July, His Majesty King Willem-Alexander will pay a working visit to the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in Wageningen.  
    Dronefoto NIOO

  6. PhD thesis defence Azkia Nurfikari: residual streams from insect cultivation for sustainable crop management

    Event
    Azkia Nurfikari will defend her PhD thesis "Prospects of residual streams from insect cultivation for sustainable crop management".

    insect op blad

  7. New children's book about soil animals for Dutch schools

    Press release
    Dutch primary schools receive a free copy this week of the soil animal-themed new children's book by popular author Janneke Schotveld.
    Omslag van Mevrouw Mol van Janneke Schotveld

  8. Microbes for plant health

    Microbes can act as bodyguards for plants and can foster plant growth in other ways as well. At NIOO, we are digging into the mechanisms: in what ways do they interact? And how can we stimulate this, to make our agriculture more sustainable? Let's rewild our microbes!
    Sorghum field infected with the parasitic plant Striga

  9. Working together

    There’s a lot that we can learn from nature! Performing and promoting research, together with policy makers, nature managers and businesses - and sharing the new knowledge it produces. That is NIOO's strength.
    Samenwerke aan algenonderzoek en waterkwaliteit

  10. No 'I' in Ecology: 150 years after Haeckel

    News
    As a new year begins, NIOO looks back not just on the past twelve months but on 150 years of ecology. We've come a long way since German biologist Ernst Haeckel first coined the term in 1866...
    After Haeckl: Liesbeth, Gerard & Jos