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NWO-VENI: Islands within islands: the effect of isolation on marine biodiversity
NWO-Caribbean Programme: Ecology and conservation of sea turtles in the Dutch Caribbean
Monitoring marine invasive species through metabarcoding
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RESCQ – Restoration Ecosystem Services and Coral Reef Quality
In this project, resilient corals grow in coral nurseries, to restore the damaged reefs in the Caribbean.
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Conservation of jellyfish-lakes in Misool, Papua
Worldwide, only 13 jellyfish-lakes are known. These are located in Palau, Vietnam and Indonesia. Jellyfish lakes are landlocked islands of sea that of...
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Building with Nature along a tropical muddy coast in Indonesia: innovation in mangrove restoration
Recent work has shown that given the right conditions, mangrove recovery actually works best without planting at all.
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Harmful invasive alien species (IAS) in the Caribbean Netherlands
Following climate change, IAS are recognised as the second-most serious long-term threat to island ecology, worldwide. Of all IAS issues, by far the...
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Ecological rehabilitation Lac Bay Mangroves, Bonaire: from knowledge to proactive intervention
Since 2010, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs has supported a series of projects towards the sustainable management and restoration of the...
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Marine lakes: natural laboratories of ecology & evolution
Since Darwin, insular environments have played a key role in biological research as they provide an explicit spatial and temporal context in which to...
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Saba Bank research programme 2011-2016
Since 2010, the Saba Bank falls under the jurisdiction of The Netherlands. Spanning an area of 2000km2, the Saba Bank houses the largest coral reef in...