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  1. Living Lab

    Faciliteit
    Leiden University
    The Living Lab is an outdoor lab, suited for research on the consequences of pollution from pesticides, fertilisers, microplastics, advanced materials and invasive species such as crayfish. It consists of 32 ditches (8 meter length, 50 cml width, 30-60 cm depth)that are allowed to develop natural communities so that actual biodiversity and ecosystem functionality impacts can be assessed. The ditch systems are connected o a watershed that allows natural colonization of organisms into the test ditches (=cosms).

    Besides, it is an important place for education of elementary school pupils to higher education students.
    Living Lab Leiden

  2. Impacts of nutrients and climate change on competition in cyanobacterial blooms

    Internship
    This student project will consist of running chemostat experiments with toxic and non-toxic strains of Microcystis aeruginosa and Dolichospermum flos-aquae, two prominent bloom forming species in the Netherlands. The project will include monocultures to characterize the species, as well as competition experiments under different nutrient limitations.

  3. Less intensive works best for agricultural soil

    Press release
    The less intensively you manage the soil, the better the soil can function. Such as not ploughing as often or using more grass-clover mixtures as cover crops. These are the conclusions from a research team led by the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW). Surprisingly, it applies to both conventional and organic farming. These important insights for making agriculture more sustainable are published in the scientific journal Science today. ‘It offers clear evidence to help farmers manage soils better.’
    Het veldwerk aan de bodem: tussen het graan, de kruiden, het gras en de klaver

  4. Galápagos (5): Galápagos revisited

    Blog
    Two years after our first scientific expedition, we returned to the Galápagos Islands—this time with sharper tools, new goals, and even more excitement. Our mission? To dive deeper into the hidden microbial world of Scalesia, the archipelago’s iconic giant daisies, and uncover secrets that even our earlier work only hinted at.
    Galapagos expedition team

  5. Phenoweb

    Metadata of the field study Phenoweb (PHW), United Kingdom
    Map of Phenoweb, United Kingdom

  6. Westeinderplassen

    Metadata of the field study (WEP-1) at Westeinderplassen (WEP), Netherlands
    Map of Westeinderplassen, Netherlands

  7. LTER-LIFE: a research infrastructure to develop Digital Twins of ecosystems in a changing world

    Faciliteit
    NIOO-KNAW
    The LTER-LIFE lab allows building digital twins (digital replicas) of ecosystems. With these twins, scenarios can be constructed to understand how ecosystems respond to pressures in order to develop effective response strategies. LTER-LIFE will initially focus on 2 of the most extensive and best-studied ecosystems in the Netherlands representing aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems: the Wadden Sea and the Veluwe.
    LTER-LIFE schedule

  8. Marine harmful algae and environmental change in the Anthropocene

    Internship
    We are offering an internship for a master's student to investigate the responses of marine microalgae exhibiting harmful traits to various global environmental change factors.

  9. Aniek Albers

    People
    Research assistant
    A.Albers@nioo.knaw.nl

  10. Up and down the marshes

    Press release
    Lower the water level in a marsh temporarily and you get a more resilient, healthy and biodiverse ecosystem in return. That is the advice of ecologist Kerstin Bouma and her colleagues at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW). An extraordinary opportunity presented itself in the Oostvaardersplassen to find out how this works. She defended her PhD on that research in the mud and among the reeds on Friday 4 April.
    Ecoloog Kerstin Bouma draagt een waadpak en een rugzak. Ze loopt door een moeras.