Yet another fascinating episode is coming up for the BiodiversityXL Live short livestream series: the Sound of Biodiversity! More and more different approaches and techniques are used, in the hope to gain more knowledge about biodiversity. They help us to look very detailed at individuals, species and ecosystems. But let's not forget about our ears. Sound can tell a lot about the presence of species, but also about their behaviour. Sounds we can hear, like bird songs, but also sounds we can not hear. How do we monitor biodiversity via sound?

On 28 October, Bernice Sepers (Animal Ecology) will defend her thesis on 'Behavioural epigenetics: insights into the role of heritable and induced DNA methylation variation in avian personality' at Wageningen UR.

This will be an extraordinary event. Wait and see, and join of course!

To honour the International Day of Biodiversity, with NIOO soil ecologists for Q&A afterwards!

On Tuesday 27 June 2023, Krista van den Heuvel will defend her PhD thesis, titled "The flexible brain: Causes of individual variation in cognitive flexibility".

The next BiodiversityXL Community Event is coming up soon and this time it's going to be at NIOO!

The annual Biology Olympiad will visit the NIOO again. Students will learn this Thursday afternoon from our researcher Kees van Oers (Animal ecology) about animal personalities. And afterwards, they will be tested on this subject...

On Thursday 7 September 2023 our Animal Ecology department is organising a symposium on migratory birds under pressure, followed by the PhD thesis defence of Kees Schreven the next day.

Ieder jaar gaan we rond Dierendag op safari in eigen tuin, op zoek naar die belangrijke maar vaak vergeten bodemdieren. In 2023 is het tijd voor de 9e editie!