Wetlands are important centres of biodiversity and play a crucial role in the environment. But for a long time they have been badly damaged, particularly by human activity. In fact, two thirds of the original French wetlands have been destroyed. In one hundred years, this represents 2.5 million hectares, …

Pollinator biodiversity has decreased in the past decades, but urban areas have increasingly been found to serve as a refuge when compared to the surrounding intensively managed farmland. This offers an opportunity for urban pollinator conservation to play a role in the conservation of pollinators. But …

Campus Greensteel is the answer to the rehaul of the Tata Steel operations in IJmuiden. The change to hydrogen power restores the site as a natural dune area by the combination of architectural and biological strategies. After clearance of the coal and cokes depots and fossil powerplants, a network of …

This research examines the water quality of Lake Volkerak-Zoom, focusing on annual returning blue-green algae (Microcystis) blooms. In addition, this research is focused on the possibility to sustainably remove 50% blue-green algae (Microcystis) from Lake Volkerak-Zoom using nutrient related measures, …

Ever since lake Volkerak got its status as a partially closed-off lake in the late ‘80s, excessive (cyanobacterial) algae blooms in the summer period have been a consistently occurring problem. This research aims to investigate the location-specific effectiveness of wetlands and floodplains in nutrient …

Bij vindplaatsen in een zogenoemde wetlandcontext speelt het criterium conservering (als onderdeel van de fysieke kwaliteit) een grote rol. De aanwezigheid van goed geconserveerd organisch materiaal heeft invloed op de opgravingsstrategie. Gebrek aan informatie en inzicht in vindplaatsvormende factoren …

This study contains an extensive survey to amphibian species and their habitats in the national park Kotyhi-Strofylia wetlands and the goal of the report is to provide local management and monitoring suggestions for conservation of amphibians. The study is part of EPMAC-Europe which is a European monitoring …

The NGO Stichting Uniek Curaçao (SUC) wants to improve their management plans in order to acquire more responsibilities from the government. With this responsibility, SUC can create new opportunities for the management of Curaçao’s wetlands of international importance which fall under the Ramsar Convention …

Study the effects of repeated harvest activities with an Anderson biobaler in natural willow rings around Saskatchewan prairie marshes, on the regeneration characteristics of willow and determine management tactics that increase the efficientcy of the system.

Vroeger werd er weinig rekening gehouden met de natuur bij het inrichten van de buitenruimte, tegenwoordig wordt dit een steeds belangrijker thema gevonden. Door het toepassen van natuurlijke materialen krijgt het ontwerp een natuurlijke uitstraling. Deze studie geeft een overzicht van gehanteerde methoden …