Essay: Are wildlife films good for nature conservation
Wildlife films can act as an effective tool to educate and raise awareness about nature, and to foster conservation behavior. To achieve this, it is essential to consider the following aspects. First of all, what is your target audience? Most viewers do not want to watch wildlife films with a conservation message and sometimes by […]
Essay: How can we protect the most nature per dollar invested?
Inferred from the article of Barbier, Burgess & Dean (2018), this essay argues that instead of investing in their own countries, wealthy countries should invest more in developing nations in order to improve global nature conservation. It is a win-win situation. The investor wins because the investment will provide more benefits on the long term […]
Maples, the rescue of the Maashorst?
A study about the effects of different methods of planting the sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) on soil fauna. During autumn 2017 in nature park the Maashorst the soil fauna was studied. This study was executed in an area where young sycamores were planted with different treatments (mineral fertilizer, gel granules, a combination of those two and […]
Literature review: Wisents in the Maashorst
In 2016, a population of 15 wisents have been introduced into the Maashorst with aim to help transform this nature reserve into a robust and connected landscape with forest, heather, grassy vegetation, fens and flowing streams. Introducing a population of large herbivores can have can have major consequences for a certain area. They can increase […]
Does Climate Change Affect Chick Fitness?
Great Tits (Parus major) are adapting to a warming world by changing their timing of reproduction. To investigate the selection pressure of climate change on these birds, the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), set up an experiment. A four-generation selection program, selecting on laying date was used create two extreme genotypes: an early laying and […]
Who´s Calling?
About 50 species of Neotropical birds regularly feed on arthropods that try to escape from army ant swarms. Much of this ant-following behavior is still of most of these ant-following birds is still unclear, encouraging further research. Furthermore, the army ant species Eciton burchelli as well as ant-following birds are endangered: forest fragmentation and isolation […]
Biodiversity in the Empelse waard
The Empelse is a nature reserve that is managed by Natuurmonumenten, but will soon be co-managed by HAS University of Applied Sciences. A renovation has taken place in the Empelse so that the area can function as a buffer for water storage when the water level of the Meuse is too high. To investigate the […]