
News of the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Group
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Inauguration Liesbeth Bakker: ‘If you give nature room, it returns rapidly’
September 28, 2022 - Can giving nature more room help us solve major crises? Liesbeth Bakker, who is to be inaugurated as a professor by special appointment of Rewilding... -
Inaugural lecture Frank van Langevelde: “Just ringing the alarm isn’t going to protect nature”
June 21, 2022 - “Wild animals are not only spectacular and amazing; they also affect our lives. That’s something we shouldn’t forget.” This is... -
Tropical vegetation benefits less from elevated atmospheric CO2 than previously thought
May 6, 2022 - Sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere into tropical vegetation has been suggested as a mitigating factor of anthropogenically elevated... -
Artificial intelligence and big data can help preserve wildlife
February 9, 2022 - A team of experts in artificial intelligence and animal ecology have put forth a new, cross-disciplinary approach intended to enhance research on... -
Functional Ecology Haldane prize for Yingying Wang
April 24, 2020 - The British Ecological Society has awarded Yingying Wang with their annual prize for best research paper by an early career researcher. Yingying Wang... -
Frank van Langevelde new chair of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation group
January 16, 2020 - Frank van Langevelde has been appointed professor and chair of the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation group at Wageningen University & Research.... -
New paper: Why climate change means a rethink of coffee and cocoa production systems.
June 20, 2019 -
INREF grants funding for project “Beyond Anthropocene Pressures: convivialconservation integrating ECOlogy and ECOnomics along the Nile and its wetlands(Eco2)”.
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Sex in a world of fear: rodents produce more offspring when frightened
November 21, 2018 - Rodent mothers produce more offspring after smelling odors produced by frightened males. This is reported by a team of biologists from Finland and the... -
Flammable floodplains are weak spot of Amazon forest
April 19, 2017 - Peripheral parts of the Amazon forest were long thought to be most vulnerable to climate-induced collapse. Now, a study by an international team of...