Onderzoeker Tom Wijers en studenten Aaron Bakker van hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein vertellen hoe zij bijdragen aan het herstel van koraalriffen met de hulp van zee-egels.

Diadema sea-urchins play a vital role in maintaining a balanced coral reef ecosystem by grazing away algae and creating bare substrate for coral recruitment. The RAAKPRO Diadema project aims to develop interventions to improve larval recruitment and juvenile survival to increase local Diadema populations. …

De biodiversiteit op de wereld neemt met een rap tempo af. Dit zorgt ook voor een afname van zoogdiersoorten, waaronder de populatie van de West Europese egel. Om de populatie van de egel in stand te houden en verdere afname tegen te gaan, is het van belang dat het revalidatieproces in opvangcentra zo …

Coral reefs are of great importance for social, biological and economical purposes. However, due to global and local threats they are declining rapidly. One of the ways to sustain coral reefs is sexual coral propagation. While the sexual propagation of corals for reef rehabilitation has been successful …

Coral reefs in the Caribbean have suffered massive losses of corals since the early 1980s due to a wide range of human impacts, such as explosive human populations growth, coastal pollution, global warming, overfishing, invasive species and diseases. The publication in the journal science in 2003 stated …