Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Chapter 1. Ecosystem services. In: Guidance for the Assessment of Ecosystem Services in African Biosphere Reserves: A Way Forward to Sustainable Development
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Chapter 2. Biosphere reserves. Living laboratories for sustainable development. In: Guidance for the Assessment of Ecosystem Services in African Biosphere Reserves: A Way Forward to Sustainable Development
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Chapter 3. Ecosystem services assessment tools. In: Guidance for the Assessment of Ecosystem Services in African Biosphere Reserves: A Way Forward to Sustainable Development
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Chapter 5. From ecosystem services assessment to actual change. In: Guidance for the Assessment of Ecosystem Services in African Biosphere Reserves: A Way Forward to Sustainable Development
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Comprendre le droit de la protection de la nature. La dimension scientifique
- Cette vidéo a pour objet de montrer un mouvement continu de scientifisation du droit de la nature. Elle s’articule autour d’un dialogue entre, d’une part, les sciences naturelles et, d’autre part, les règles juridiques. A la suite d'un interview sur les enjeux de la conservation de la biodiversité, les différentes approches conceptuelles de la conservation sont abordées par l'entremise d'une série d'interviews se déroulent à l'Institut royal des sciences naturelles de Belgique. Sont ainsi abordés: - l’approche par espèce, -l’approche par type d’habitat naturel, - le concept de réseau écologique, - l’approche par écosystème.
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0,7% investeren in een betere wereld is geen idealisme, het is een noodzaak
- ‘Ontwikkelingssamenwerking is een belangrijk en bewezen middel om mensenrechten te realiseren’, schrijft Els Hertogen van 11.11.11, die samen met een zestigtal ngo’s en prominenten onze regering herinnert aan haar belofte om 0,7% van het BNP aan ontwikkelingssamenwerking te besteden.
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La surexploitation des espèces sauvages menace des milliards d’humains
- La surexploitation d’espèces sauvages – animaux terrestres, poissons, algues, champignons, plantes ou encore arbres – menace le bien-être de milliards d’être humains, dévoile vendredi un rapport de l’Onu, qui donne des pistes pour un usage plus durable et met en valeur les savoirs des peuples autochtones.
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Ocean acidification modifies behaviour of shelf seabed macrofauna: A laboratory study on two ecosystem engineers, Abra alba and Lanice conchilega
- The feeding activity and burrow ventilation by benthic invertebrates importantly affect the biodiversity and functioning of seafloor sediments. Here we investigated how ocean acidification can modify these behavioural activities in two common and abundant macrofaunal ecosystem engineering species in temperate continental shelf communities: the white furrow shell Abra alba and the sand mason Lanice conchilega. Using time-lapse imagery and sediment porewater hydraulic signatures we show that both species adapt their behaviour in response to predicted future pH conditions (-0.3 units). During a three-week laboratory experiment, A. alba reduced the duration per feeding event when suspension and deposit feeding (by 86 and 53%, respectively), and almost completely ceased suspension feeding under reduced seawater pH in comparison to ambient seawater pH (pH ~ 8.2). This behavioural change reduces the intake of low pH water during feeding and respiration. L. conchilega increased its piston-pumping frequency by 30 and 52%, respectively, after one and two weeks of exposure to future pH conditions (-0.3 units) relative to ambient conditions. This change in irrigation activity suggests higher metabolic demands under low seawater pH, and also extended low water column pH conditions deeper into the seafloor. Because the distribution of other populations depends on the physicochemical setting by our focal species, we argue that the demonstrated behavioural plasticity will likely have cascading effects on seafloor diversity and functioning, highlighting the complexity of how ocean acidification, and climate change in general, will affect seafloor ecology.
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Review of Muricanthus Swainson, 1840 and some Recent species assigned to Hexaplex s.s. Perry, 1810, Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) Cossmann, 1921 and Phyllonotus Swainson, 1833
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Catypnes marazziorum sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae) from Papua New Guinea
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Integration of landscape genomics, provenance trials and association mapping identifies genetic components underlying cold hardiness adaptation for coastal Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii)
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Effect of aggregate extraction on MSFD descriptor 7 (hydrographic condition) in the Hinder Banks area (Belgian Continental Shelf).
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Changes in bottom shear stress, due to aggregate extraction in the area of the Hinder Banks (Belgian Continental Shelf)
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Including the observed effect of microbiological activities in a flocculation model
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Remote sensing of suspended particulate matter concentration, inter-comparison with surface buoy and tripod lander data
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Detection of shipwrecks in ocean colour satellite imagery
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The impact of disposal of fine grained sediments from maintenance dredging works on SPM concentration and fluid mud in and outside the harbor of Zeebrugge
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Changes in bottom shear stress, due to aggregate extraction in the area of the Hinder Banks (Belgian Continental Shelf)
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Quantitative clay mineralogy as provenance indicator for the recent muds located at the marine limit of influence of the Scheldt estuary
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BICEpS Annual report 2018 – Reinforcing Belgian ICES People
- The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES; French: Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, CIEM) is an intergovernmental marine science organization that brings together the efforts and knowledge of 20 Member States, bordering the North Atlantic and the Arctic Circumpolar Zone, on physical oceanography, marine ecosystems and fisheries management. Nowadays, more than 70 Belgian scientists are directly involved in the work of the 150 bodies and expert groups of ICES, which gather the expertise of more than 1500 scientists yearly, totalling up to 5000 scientists from over 700 marine institutes and organizations over the years. This important and often voluntary dedication of Belgian scientists to the work of ICES deserves more visibility among the Belgian scientific community itself and to policy makers.This is, among others, why the BICEpS initiative was launched. BICEpS general aim is to offer a platform to the Belgian ICES community to get to know each other, to improve collaboration and share information, and to promote ICES to the wider scientific community in Belgium. BICEpS Annual report 2018 presents the genesis and first year of activity of this initiative created to reinforce Belgian ICES people. The report targets marine scientists, marine managers and policy makers. It presents the demarche leading to the creation of the BICEpS community and activities conducted in 2018. The report contains the list of Belgian ICES members in 2018 with their membership to the different ICES working groups, and the results of the first BICEpS Colloquium organised on 14 November 2018 and hosted by RBINS in Brussels (outcome of a participatory discussion on the future of BICEpS, abstracts of communications presented and list of participants). The abstracts of the colloquium are supplemented by a separate annex published online which assembles the PowerPoint presentations of the colloquium accessible at http://ices.dk/community/groups/Documents/BICEPS/BICEpS-2018-Colloquium-Presentations.pdf
