Freshwater biodiversity has been threatened by eutrophication due to excessive nutrients in the environment. Releasing the freshwater species from such pressures requires efforts from industry and manufacturers to avoid emissions to vulnerable and high-risk regions.

Do sustainability values play a role in motivating people to act for biodiversity in successful projects and in successful leadership action? And how could these values be incorporated in current economic valuation methods?

The Vallesian, 11.1-9 Ma, was a special time in the Vallès-Penedes basin near Barcelona, where a biodiversity hotspot existed. Europe had a subtropical climate, with rhinos, forest giraffes, lions, hyenas, flying squirrels and primates.

Promotors: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon, Prof.dr.ir. H.H. de Iongh

In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

Promotor: J.A. van Veen, Co-promotor: E.E. Kuramae

Does roadside management in the mid-west USA increase invertebrate diversity similar to practices in Europe?

1: What is the relative importance of alfa and beta biodiversity in polar ecosystems, and how does intraspecific variation influence this? 2: How can we use remote sensing to determine functional biodiversity (within communities) in polar ecosystems? 3: Temporal and spatial scales of functional biodiversity:…

What invertebrates live in the fields and edges? Do the populations change with landscape complexity?

What invertebrates are available to feed nestlings in an agricultural landscape of varied complexity?

Biodiversity enables ecosystems to thrive through the synergy of functional differences among organisms. While human well-being strongly depends on biodiversity-driven ecosystem services, human actions are also at the root of current unprecedented biodiversity declines.

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: B.W. Hoeksema; L.P. van Ofwegen

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotor: B.W. Hoeksema

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

Natural history collections provide invaluable sources for researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds, aspiring to study the geographical distribution of flora and fauna across the globe as well as other evolutionary processes.

Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E Gittenberger, Co-Promotores: C.H.J.M. Fransen, B.W. Hoeksema

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, W.T. de Groot, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

Tijdens zijn bezoek op 12 april 2016 is Dr. Jatna Supriatna aangesteld als gastonderzoeker bij de Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen van de Universiteit Leiden. Dr. Supriatna is een bioloog en is universitair hoofddocent bij de Opleiding Biologie van Universitas Indonesia. Zijn aanstelling…

Over de hele wereld staan koraalriffen onder druk. Zarinah Waheed onderzocht de riffen in Maleisië en komt tot de conclusie dat de bescherming van koraalriffen beter kan. Promotie op 22 november.

Door de komst van alternatieven kunnen we de komende decenia radicaal minderen met vlees, zuivel en andere dierlijke producten. Dit zou enorme hoeveelheden land vrijmaken om schone energie te produceren en koolstof uit te atmosfeer te halen. Milieuwetenschappers Laura Scherer en Oscar Rueda schrijven…