News of the Marine Animal Ecology Group
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10 years of MAE!
- Friday August 29th, we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the Marine Animal Ecology (MAE) chair group! For a decade, we’ve been diving deep... -
Rewilding the Dogger Bank
- Director of the Doggerland Foundation Emilie Reuchlin and marine biologist and associate professor at Wageningen University Reindert Nijland discuss... -
Documentary Coral Lives
- The documentary Coral Lives by MAE alumnus Mert Gokalp is live! Coral Lives traces the living corals — and the lives built around them —... -
How sea urchins save the coral reef
- In the 1970s, approximately half of all the rock around the Caribbean was covered with coral, whereas now only between 2 and 3% remains around the... -
How are sharks doing 50 years after the movie ‘Jaws’?
- Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the film ‘Jaws’. The film has had disastrous consequences for sharks. Annemiek... -
Sharks and rays found using offshore wind farms as habitat
- A new study by Wageningen University & Research shows that offshore wind farms not only produce energy, but may also contribute to the protection... -
Princess Beatrix visits sea urchin research on Saba
- On November 15, Princess Beatrix visited the Saba Research Centre. Researchers from Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences and Wageningen... -
Outplanting golfball corals in Burger's Zoo
- Researchers from Marine Animal Ecology went to Burger's Zoo in Arnhem to outplant some of our lab reared golfball corals! Golfball corals are... -
Alwin Hylkema on De Nieuws BV on culturing sea urchins in Caribbean reefs
- Sea urchins play a crucial role in maintaining the health of Caribbean coral reefs because they graze on algae that could otherwise overgrow coral. In... -
Deep sea mining could be disastrous for marine animals
- In a recent study published in Deep-Sea Research Part I, researchers of Wageningen University & Research and the University of Bergen showed that...