Deze verhalenbundel van studenten van de opleidingen Toegepaste Ecologie en Applied Plant Research van de HAS green academy brengt biologie op een toegankelijke en creatieve manier tot leven. In twaalf populaire-wetenschappelijke verhalen nemen jonge auteurs de lezer mee langs uiteenlopende onderwerpen …

Lac Bay (Lac) is een baai of lagune gelegen in Bonaire, erkend voor zijn ecologische belang en staat bekend om zijn mangrovebossen, zeegrasvelden, koraalriffen en ontspanningsmogelijkheden. Dit kustecosysteem biedt cruciale habitats voor veel soorten en draagt bij aan de bescherming van de kustlijn. …

This literature review is written for those concerned with the protection of oceans, reefs and communities as well as anyone interested in it. The literature study focuses on answering the question ‘what are the consequences for coral reefs if corallivorous fish become extinct?’. Accelerated trends in …

Scleractinische koralen met endosymbiotisch Symbiodinium zijn de dominante soort van tropische koraalriffen. Deze koraalriffen vormen de habitat voor ongeveer 25% van de mariene soorten op Aarde. Ook voor de mens zijn koraalriffen van groot belang voor voedsel, toerisme en voor de economie. De laatste …

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 …

The invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans and Pterois miles) started invading the Caribbean Sea since the 1980’s and were first sighted on the Saba Bank since 2009 where they established themselves fully during the following two years. They have no specific preference for prey species and their predation …

The coral reef ecosystem provides important services such as tourism revenue, food, pharmaceutical products and coastal defence. Coral reefs are under a severe amount of threats such as pollution, overfishing and climate change. These threats result in a decrease of coral reefs and so a decrease in three- …

For multiple reasons, such as changing ocean temperatures, overfishing and unsustainable tourism coral reefs are declining worldwide. A negative feedback loop is created by the loss of three-dimensional structures that the coral reefs create. These three-dimensional structures provide shelters for grazing …

Coral reefs have been in decline over the past decades. This has greatly increased the need for restorative measures. The islands of Saba and St. Eustatius, two special Dutch municipalities in the Dutch Caribbean, are not exempt to this decline. The Saba Conservation Foundation and St. Eustatius National …

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 …