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  1. NWO Life 2023

    Event
    A visit to NWO Life means expanding your horizon. It is an annual conference where you are given the unique opportunity to meet researchers from all career levels and from all disciplines in the Dutch life sciences. From femtometre to kilometre, from cell to planet.
    NWO Life

  2. Joseph Burant

    People
    Tenure Track

  3. Save the chicks to save the population

    News
    To understand and halt the decline of oystercatchers in the Netherlands, spatiotemporal variation and its causes must be taken into account. Magali Frauendorf defended her PhD thesis on the topic in Nijmegen on 14 September.
    Magali Frauendorf

  4. Lena Faller

    People
    PhD Candidate

  5. 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

  6. Flipping Lakes

    Flipping Lakes is a game in which you, as a player, take on the role of a catchment water manager. As the water manager you are tasked to prevent a recreation lake from “flipping” from a clear and biodiverse state to a turbid and algae rich state.

  7. CBS-KNAW collections and databases

    Facility
    Westerdijk Institute
    The CBS-KNAW culture collection from the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (WI-KNAW) is the largest in the world with more than 100.000 strains of fungi (including yeasts) and bacteria (including wild-type and mutant strains), hosts suitable for DNA research, genetically engineered plasmids, broad-host-range plasmids and phages.
    Culture collection Westerdijk

  8. Research waste in ecology: urgent call for action

    News
    Only about 11 to 18 percent of ecological research reaches its full informative potential. Ignoring this problem is costly. The responsibility to solve it lies with funders, publishers, research institutions as well as with the researchers themselves.
    Data management

  9. Light on Nature

    We produce more and more light at night. Virtually everybody in Europe or the US lives in a light polluted place: all areas where artificial light always exceeds the light of the moon and the stars. These areas expand with about two percent per year, while already light polluted areas become even brighter at night. 
    Lantaarnpaal met rood licht

  10. Soil transplantation

    How can former arable fields be restored to nature? How can we turn a heavily managed soil into a species-rich grassland or heathland? And what is the role of soil organisms in steering plant communities?
    Reijerscamp heidebodemtransplantatie