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  1. The value of long-term studies

    News
    It can take years to notice the effects of changes in nature. Long-term research is therefore essential. If there are far fewer great tits or winter moths in a year, is that an exception or a new trend due to climate change? The long haul needed to measure this year-on-year is a big challenge. The National Institute for Ecological Research NIOO-KNAW, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this month, does this kind of research. What does it teach us?
    The study of light colour impact

  2. Soil animals as guests at Klokhuis

    Event
    Watch the Klokhuis episode airing on 28 May, where NIOO will put soil animals in the spotlight. The episode will air between 18:40 and 18:55 on NPO3, or you can watch it later on hetklokhuis.nl or NPO start.
    Het Klokhuis

  3. National Growth Fund finances Dutch Holomicrobiome Institute

    News
    The government of the Netherlands has allocated €200 million from the country’s National Growth Fund for a public-private consortium that will conduct research into 'microbiomes' and economically interesting applications thereof. In the consortium, NIOO is partnering with ten Dutch universities, five university-medical centres, four universities of applied sciences, many other knowledge organisations and together with dozens of small and large companies and societal organisations.
    Holomicrobioom

  4. From Pioneer to Soil Prophet: 40 years belowground - Farewell symposium Wietse de Boer

    Event
    On Thursday April 4 we'll have the Farewell Symposium and reception for our long-time colleague Prof. Dr Wietse de Boer (Department of Microbial Ecology at NIOO and Wageningen University).
    Farewell symposium Wietse de Boer

  5. Greenhouse gases

    Climate change is amplified by greenhouse gas emissions. At NIOO, we work on the fundamental understanding of how gases such as methane, carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide influence ecosystems. Our knowledge of carbon and nitrogen cycles provides insight into the potential of greenhouse mitigation tools. In a Dutch freshwater lake or the soil of a tropical rain forest.
    Landschap met koeien

  6. The Centre for Soil Ecology goes national

    News
    Today, on World Soil Day, it is the perfect moment to present the new National Centre for Soil Ecology. All soil ecologists working in the Netherlands can now connect to the initiative that originally started in Wageningen.
    Scientists involved in the new National Centre for Soil ecology together

  7. Film 'Onder het Maaiveld' revisited - English version

    Event
    To honour the International Day of Biodiversity, with NIOO soil ecologists for Q&A afterwards!
    Film onder het maaiveld: verschillende bodemdieren

  8. Beneath your feet, soil microbes are getting fat

    News
    Microbes, like humans, can eat 'junk food' and grow fat. This even happens when you might not expect it, according to NIOO researcher Kyle Mason-Jones
    Microbes under your feet grow fat

  9. 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

  10. Eiko Kuramae's inaugural lecture

    Event
    Op dinsdag 11 april houdt Eiko Kuramae haar oratie als hoogleraar Microbial Community Ecology & Environmental Genomics in Utrecht
    Eiko Kuramae greenhouse