The trade-off between high forest and biodiversity loss associated with development of oil palm plantations and their extremely efficient production of vegetable oil supplied the world with cooking oil and biofuel while taking away millions of hectares of forest in Indonesia alone. RSPO certification …

Forests, both natural and planted, can provide multiple benefits to human society. The loss of these ecosystem services due to deforestation and forest degradation is of global concern and of particular importance to rural populations that rely on natural resources for their livelihoods. One of the (international) …

This study aimed to get more insight into the spatial distribution pattern of the macrobenthos at the Vlakte van de Raan in relation to environmental gradients (median grain size, salinity and bathymetry). 82 samples were collected in November 2016 with a Van Veen grab using the research vessel the ‘RV …

This paper describes the development of one solid phase extraction method for a wide group of pharmaceutical and industrial compounds in wastewater that is analyzed with two LC-MS/MS methods.

Recent research has shown that many chloroplast markers commonly used for the identification of species in land plants are not useful in the moss genus Campylopus. The only known suitable marker in Campylopus is the nuclear ribosomal ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region. However, evolutionary patterns of this region …

Bryophytes are small, haploid, non-vascular plants, which can be divided in three distinct phyla; the mosses (Musci), the liverworts (Hepaticae) and the hornworts (Anthocerotae) (Gradstein & Melick, 1996), (Touw, Kruijer, & Stech, 2016). They are valuable indicators of environmental chance, due to the …

Naturalis is als biodiversiteitscentrum het instituut dat de rijkscollectie op het gebied van natuurhistorie beheert en hier onderzoek aan doet. Tevens ontsluit Naturalis de gegevens over de collectie in internationale netwerken: dit bevordert de wetenschap wereldwijd. Naturalis legt de nadruk op het …

To ensure stability for ships, ballast water is often used to correct or adjust the list or trim of a ship. After loading the ballast water is often carried across the ocean and discharged in an area with another aquatic environment. As a result, invasive species can end up in the water and effect the …

Met het Verwonderpaspoort (VWP) heb ik mij bezig gehouden gedurende mijn afstudeerstage. Dit is een online platform voor leerlingen van 4 tot 12 jaar en is gekoppeld aan een leerlingenpas. Het platform bestaat nu twee jaar. Leerlingen volgen een activiteit bij één van de twaalf aangesloten Leidse …

This management plan is written for the STEMA Bible school. The School wants to be self-sufficient regarding their vegetables and crops by increasing the yield of their community forest. The school is located on Ambon which is an island of the Moluccas archipelago in Indonesia. The community forest, …