Biodiverse Environment News
On this page, you will find all news and activities related to the Biodiverse Environment programme.
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Will tropical mountain tree species adjust to warming temperatures?
October 12, 2022 - Many plant species, probably including a third of all trees, are threatened by extinction. One of the growing threats is rapid climate change and the... -
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... -
Where the wild things are… Which tropical forest mammals occur where?
July 27, 2022 - Tropical forests sustain hundreds of wonderful and seldom seen mammal species: spanning jaguars, tapirs, monkeys and elephants. Many of these are... -
Regenerating forests contribute to maintaining the diversity of tropical species and biomes in the Americas
July 4, 2022 - A study published today in Science Advances shows that tropical forests that regrow naturally on abandoned agricultural lands are not all the same and... -
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... -
Transform decision-making to tackle climate and biodiversity crises together
June 1, 2022 - A new study published today in the scientific journal BioScience argues that to effectively and equitable address the interactions between... -
Trees shrink during heatwaves
January 20, 2022 - While people tend to escape the sun during hot summers under the tree canopy in parks and forests, trees are fully exposed. They have to fight the... -
Fish stocks fluctuate with seawater temperature
January 17, 2022 - Year-to-year fluctuations in seawater temperature are partly responsible for the much slower ups and downs in the abundance of marine fish stocks.... -
How to turn tension into transformation
December 14, 2021 - One could imagine when researchers and people outside academia work together in a “co-production” process, things do not always run... -
Forests with variations in traits absorb more carbon
November 17, 2021 - Forests are being planted in large numbers all over the world. Many of them are intended to remove CO2 from the air in order to reduce global warming....