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Strengthening biodiversity in organic, unheated greenhouses. (BIODIVERSIKAS) HOGENT

Bram Vanthournout
AgroFoodNature, Proefstation voor Groenteteelt, BioForum

BIODIVERSIKAS aims to increase the functional agrobiodiversity within unheated greenhouses. To this end, six organic and diversified unheated greenhouse growers, together with BioForum, HOGENT and PSKW as research partners, are looking for agro-ecological solutions to strengthen biodiversity and thus achieve a better natural balance. In this way, the ecosystem services are used more efficiently in this particular cultivation system.

Integrating SOil Biodiversity to Ecosystem Services: testing cost-effectiveness of Soil Biodiversity indicators and the provision of soil biodiversity-based Ecosystem Services to build better land management solutions that effectively implement the EU Soi (SOB4ES) KU Leuven

Karen Vancampenhout
Forest, Nature and Landscape

The aim of the EU Soil Strategy is that by 2050 all soils in the EU are healthy. However, cost-effective indicators for soil biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services are missing, and so are cost-effective measures for restoring soil health. SOB4ES will contribute to the Mission A Soil Deal for Europe by: (1) elucidating soil biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and services for major land uses and land use intensity changes; ...

Integrating SOil Biodiversity to Ecosystem Services: testing cost-effectiveness of Soil Biodiversity indicators and the provision of soil biodiversity-based Ecosystem Services to build better land management solutions that effectively implement the EU Soi (SOB4ES) Ghent University

Claire Dupont
Department of Public Governance and Management, University College Dublin, AIRFIELD ESTATE, Charles University, MEL FINCA ORGANICA S. COOP. GALEGA, Agricultural Research Organization, KU Leuven, Universidade de Vigo, University of Catania, University of Ljubljana, University of Cologne, INSTITUTUL DE BIOLOGIE BUCURESTI, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
The aim of the EU’s Soil health and Food Mission is that by 2030 at least 75% and by 2050 all soils in the EU should be healthy. However, cost-effective indicators for soil biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and ecosystem services are missing, and so are cost- effective measures for restoring soil health. SOB4ES will contribute to the Missions’ Soil Deal for Europe by (1) elucidating soil biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and services for ...

Nature and biodiversity experience in the City: for an improved quality of life and biodiversity Research Institute for Nature and Forest

Ilse Simoens
Monitoring and Restoration of Aquatic Fauna, Nature & Society
The project investigates how nature and nature experience, nearby often visited (urban) locations outside the immediate residential environment, such as care institutions, schools and green areas around offices, contribute to the quality of life in the city and which role biodiversity plays here. The focus on these locations is based on the hypothesis that these locations increase the accessibility to nature experience for people from all levels ...

An assessment of the relation between carbon storage and biodiversity in the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve (DR Congo): the potential for biodiversity conservation in carbon conservation programs. University of Antwerp

Herwig Leirs
Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO)
Anthropogenic climate change represents a major threat to biodiversity as well as to human wellbeing. Climate change mitigation strategies such as the UN-REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) program aim at protecting and enhancing biosphere carbon (C) stocks, by conserving tropical rainforest systems. However, when forests are protected for their C stock, will the biodiversity (BD) be conserved as well? Components of ...

Flowerstrips for food Applications and biodiversity (FarmflowerFood) HOGENT

Greet Verlinden
AgroFoodNature, HOGENT

How can farmers contribute to biodiversity without compromising their income? The FarmFlowerFood project (Flower strips for food applications and biodiversity) – in close collaboration with participating farmers – explores this challenge by valorising flower strips for human consumption. Think of herbal infusions, cheeses or craft beverages in which local flowers and herbs take centre stage. In doing so, a valuable synergy is created between ...

Law and economic analysis of the value of biodiversity in government decisions KU Leuven

Sandra Rousseau
CEDON Research Group (main work address Brussels)

Even though the value of biodiversity has been studied from different perspectives, the value of one individual specimen within a species’ population, its habitat and living environment as well as the value of an individual habitat within its context has not been studied extensively in the academic literature. Firstly, we will examine how biodiversity is explicitly and implicitly defined by the ...

Functional significance of forest biodiversity in Europe (FunDivEUROPE) Ghent University

Kris Verheyen
Department of Forest and water management

FunDivEUROPE (FUNctional significance of forest bioDIVersity in EUROPE) proposes to quantify the effect of forest biodiversity on ecosystem function and services in major European forest types in the main bioclimatic regions of Europe. FunDivEUROPE will be based on four scientific platforms and seven cross-cutting Work Packages. The project will combine a global network of tree diversity experiments (Experimental Platform) with a newly ...

Biodiversity and phylogeny of the Typhloplanidae Graff, 1905 (Rhabdocoela: Dalytyphloplanida) (R-1501) Hasselt University

Tom ARTOIS
Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology
With about 300 species described, the Typhloplanidae is one of the most species-rich families of free-living flatworms. However, it is not only the high number of species that makes this taxon worth studying, but especially the high diversity in morphology and ecology that representatives of this taxon exhibit. Most of the species only occur in freshwater, while others are exclusively found in marine environments. Most interesting, however, is ...

First International Conference on Biodiversity in the Congo Basin (Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo). University of Antwerp

Erik Verheyen
Evolutionary ecology group (EVECO)
This conference is an initiative of the 'Consortium Congo 2010' (the University of Kisangani, the Royal Museum for Central Africa, the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and the National Botanic Garden of Belgium) and the 'Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité' in Kisangani to facilitate interactions and collaborations among Congolese, Belgian and international teams and experts involved in various fields of biodiversity-related ...