Species responding differently to climate change form ‘transient communities’, communities with constantly changing species composition due to colonization and extinction events. Our goal is to disentangle the mechanisms of response to climate change for terrestrial species in these transient communities …

Salt marshes are known to be an important habitat type for numerous species of fish. As fish stocks are pressured around the world, providing them with suitable habitat is very important. Through managed realignments or tidal restoration, intertidal salt marshes are created or restored. Which fish use …

In daily life, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from building heating, cooling and electricity consumption accounts for 47% of the total building carbon dioxide emissions. This makes people pay too much attention to energy conservation and emission reduction, which leads to the neglect of a pleasant …

Inleiding Sinds 11 maart 2020 is COVID-19 officieel uitgroepen tot pandemie (WHO, 2020). De meeste mensen die geïnfecteerd zijn, ervaren milde tot matige luchtwegaandoeningen en herstellen zonder ziekenhuisopname. Een deel van de mensen ervaart langdurig klachten, dit wordt “Long COVID” of “PASC” genoemd …

Tropical forests are the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. While better understanding of these forests is critical for our collective future, until quite recently efforts to measure and monitor them have been largely disconnected. Networking is essential to discover the answers to questions …

Het gaat helaas niet goed met de visstand van de Waddenzee. Er zwemmen minder vissen en ze worden steeds kleiner. Vooral trekvissen – die zowel zout als zoet water nodig hebben en vrij tussen beide moeten kunnen migreren – hebben het zwaar. Veel vissoorten worden op dit moment in hun trek gehinderd.

This longitudinal, quantitative study contributes to the debate on technology-based professional development by examining the extent to which a learning (LinkedIn) intervention in a university setting affects an individual’s social media use for professional development, and the extent to which this …

During the 2015 Gorkha earthquake of 7.8 Mw that hit Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, numerous Nepalese Pagodas suffered extensive damage while others collapsed. Risk reduction strategies implemented in the region focused on disassembling historical structures and rebuilding them with modern material without …

Caribbean coral reefs are in decline and the deployment of artificial reefs, structures on the sea bottom that mimic one or more characteristics of a natural reef, is increasingly often considered to sustain ecosystem services. Independent of their specific purposes, it is essential that artificial reefs …

Dit voorjaar staat in het teken van een groot onderzoek naar vismigratie, omdat het slecht gaat met de visstand, mede door de vele blokkades van dijken, dammen en wegen. Het project 'Vissen voor Verbinding' waarbij tal van organisaties betrokken zijn, waaronder hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, moet leiden …