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Restoring and rewilding ecosystems
It is a topical issue and has long been a research interest of NIOO: how do you restore nature? For example, former farmland can be made more suitable for nature again, and areas connected to each other. This approach could also help to mitigate the consequences of climate change. Furthermore, a growing amount of knowledge about rewilding has become available in recent years. It has become clear that, in the long run, rewilding yields strong ecosystems with more biodiversity. -
Ecosystemen herstellen en verwilderen
Het is een actueel onderwerp en al lang een onderzoeksinteresse van het NIOO: hoe kun je natuur herstellen? Voormalige landbouwgrond krijgt bijvoorbeeld weer een natuurfunctie en gebieden worden met elkaar verbonden. Dit kan ook helpen om de gevolgen van klimaatverandering op te vangen. De laatste jaren komt bovendien steeds meer kennis beschikbaar over ‘rewilding’. Het levert op de lange termijn sterke ecosystemen op met een grotere biodiversiteit, zo blijkt. -
Bodembiodiversiteit stimuleren
Bij het NIOO onderzoeken we de onbekende maar heel belangrijke wereld onder onze voeten: om nieuw bodemleven te vinden, nieuwe mini-samenlevingen te ontdekken en om de mensheid te laten zien wat eerder onzichtbaar bleef. -
Seasonal timing
Species can adapt over the course of time. As the lives of species are altered by climate change, a different seasonal timing could make them adapt to an early spring, for example. How does this work, and what are the limits to such adaptations? -
How do nutrients and temperature affect cyanobacterial bloom toxicity?
Toxic cyanobacterial blooms threaten freshwater quality, made worse by climate change and eutrophication. The toxicity of these blooms depends not only on cyanobacteria quantity but also on the presence potentially toxin-producing species and genotypes, and their varied toxin production. -
How do nutrients and temperature affect cyanobacterial bloom toxicity?
Toxic cyanobacterial blooms threaten freshwater quality, made worse by climate change and eutrophication. The toxicity of these blooms depends not only on cyanobacteria quantity but also on the presence potentially toxin-producing species and genotypes, and their varied toxin production. -
Climate change impacts on harmful algal blooms
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms produce toxins that are a major threat to water quality and human health. Blooms increase with eutrophication and are expected to be amplified by climate change. Yet, we lack a mechanistic understanding on the toxicity of blooms, and their response to the complex interplay of multiple global change factors. Bloom toxicity is determined by a combination of mechanisms acting at different ecological scales, ranging from cyanobacterial biomass accumulation in the ecosystem, to the dominance of toxic species in the community, contribution of toxic genotypes in the population, and the amounts of toxins in cells. -
Koninklijke postzegel met bijzonder ecologisch verhaal
Op een serie postzegels ter ere van het 10-jarig jubileum van Koning Willem-Alexander, staat ook NIOO-onderzoeker Paul Bodelier. Wat is het verhaal achter deze postzegel? -
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. -
Soil biodiversity analysis for sustainable production systems (SoilProS)
SoilProS will interpret big data on soil biodiversity, soil chemical and physical characteristics with respect to current and desired soil functions, and how to use this information in order to help farmers predicting which crop varieties, seed mixtures, (organic) fertilizers, soil inocula, and organic substrates enhance the environmental sustainability of their activities.