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Ten thousand types of plant outgrowths bundled 08 October 2019For nine years he worked on the three-volume standard work Plant Galls of Europe. It yielded 2300 pages about 10,000 species of European galls, abnorm...
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Ben Wielstra about newts, bizarre evolution and Naturalis 30 September 2019Newts of which half of the offspring die before birth. Evolutionary biologist Ben Wielstra is investigating how this can exist in nature. In his resea...
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Birds around airports may be deaf and more aggressive 27 August 2019Birds around airports are more aggressive and sing as if they have hearing loss. Collaboration between researchers of Manchester Metropolitan Universi...
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Counting plants and small freshwater creatures for citizen science 17 June 2019Local residents, scientists and students are investigating riverbanks in Leiden for the 'Bank Plants' citizen science project. Which plant species are...
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Experts provide three necessary solutions to the biodiversity crisis 20 May 2019It came as a shock to many people: one million plant and animal species are threatened to become extinct. But this number isn’t the most relevant aspe...
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@ThroughOcular shows the beauty of plants, fungi and algae 28 March 2019Beautiful microscopic specimens play the leading role in the course 'Biodiversity Plant' for first-year Biology students. Normally these are put back ...
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Economic expansion and land use cause bird extinction 05 March 2019Population growth, economic expansion and the associated land use caused an increase in the number of bird species facing extinction and a reduction i...
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Untangling the Evolution of a Balanced Lethal System 22 February 2019Ben Wielstra strives to unravel the evolution of balanced lethal systems. On 1 February he started his own lab at the Institute of Biology Leiden. Wie...
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Female budgerigars like smart males 10 January 2019If male budgerigars can successfully open a puzzle box with food, they become more attractive to females. Biologist Carel ten Cate and Chinese colleag...
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Measuring species traits for biodiversity policy goals 27 September 2018An international team including Peter van Bodegom shows how trait variability can be incorporated in Essential Biodiversity Variables to allow monitor...
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TERRA-Dunes, a collaborative CML-IBL project has been on NPO1 radio 12 September 2018Nadia Soudzilovskaia (CML), Martijn Bezemer (IBL / NIOO) and Harrie van der Hagen (ecologist at Dunea) gave an interview to NPO1 Radio about the TERR...
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On safari in the Bio Science Park 06 August 2018It is a warm day. The sun is shining brightly while biologist Marco Roos makes his way through the bushes towards a peculiar little plant. Insects buz...
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What we can learn from hi-tech nature 08 March 2018Biodiversity in the Netherlands is having a tough time. Professor of Natural Capital Koos Biesmeijer combines research with practical advice: from th...
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Even plants can have neighbour trouble 12 December 2017Restoring a natural plant environment on exhausted agricultural lands and in nature areas is difficult. We can speed this up by steering the soils to...
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Refugee student wins Peter Baehr Prize 2016 02 February 2017With the support of the Foundation for Refugee Students UAF, Russia expert Oshank Hashemi, a cum laude graduate of Leiden University, has won the Pete...