Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Vertical stratification of the termite assemblage in a neotropical rainforest
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Spatial structure of litter-dwelling ant distribution in a subtropical dry forest
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Un acarien qui saute et qui se met en boule
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Le saut chez un acarien oribate du genre Indotritia
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The backward jump of a box moss mite
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Taxy and variations of leg setae and solenidia in Tetranychus urticae (Acari, Prostigmata)
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Characterizing termite assemblages in fragmented forests: A test case in the Argentinian Chaco
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Megadiversity of arthropods of canopies
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Support scientifique à l’élaboration des plans de gestion des étangs gérés par l’IBGE en Région de Bruxelles-Capitale
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The last biotic frontier: towards a census of canopy life. European Science Foundation exploratory workshop co-funded by the United Nations Environment Program and the Global Canopy Program
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Etude de conception du Maillage Vert. Le maillage vert ecologique en région de Bruxelles Capitale + 1 carte
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CTFS arthropod monitoring initiative. Termite protocol: an illustrated guide
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Inventory and monitoring programme for arthropods at EDIT ATBI site 680 - Podocarpus National Park, Ecuador :Progress report and proposal to EDIT and DFG RU-816 for the period 2007-2009.
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Hunting, gathering, fishing and herding: animal exploitation in sandy Flanders (NW Belgium) during the second half of the 5th millennium BC
- At Doel, in the lower basin of the river Scheldt, excavations have revealed camp sites of the Swifterbant culture dating back to the second half of the fifth millennium BC. They document the transition period from the Late Mesolithic to the Early Neolithic in Sandy Flanders (NW Belgium). The sites were situated on the top of sandy ridges which were covered with an alluvial hardwood forest vegetation and surrounded by wetlands. Only burnt animal remains survived at the sites, illustrating (seasonal) fishing and hunting. In addition, botanical evidence indicates the herding of domestic mammals. The finds are of importance for the reconstruction of the chronological development of the food economy of the Swifterbant culture.
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The Streif classification system: a tribute to an alternative system for organising and mapping Holocene coastal deposits
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Sequence mapping of Holocene coastal lowlands. The application of the Streif classification system in the Belgian coastal plain
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Optical dating of tidal sediments: Potentials and limits inferred from the North Sea coast
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Archeologische evaluatie en waardering van de circulaire structuur van Ver-Assebroek (gemeente Brugge, provincie West-Vlaanderen).
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Report 2012 Building capacities for biodiversity and development
- Abstract annual report 2012 DGD/RBINS Project The year 2012 was the last year of the work programme 2008-2012. During the year 2012 a new agreement between DGD and RBINS for the strategy 2014-2023 has been approved. In 2012 the institutional partnership with the Institut National de l’Environnement et la Conservation de la Nature (INECN, Burundi) was extended to also include an IMAB component (Inventarisation , Monitoring and Assessment of Biodiversity) with a workshop on the monitoring of habitats (‘LEM’) given in Bujumbura, and followed by a practical course in the “Parc national de la Kibera”. At the level of the Clearing House Mechanism (CHM), a follow-up training was given at the INECN, and the national reference center/library on the environment was reinforced by training the librarians. A donation of equipment and 4 series from the RBINS archives about the protected areas of DR Congo were sent to DR Congo and Burundi . In DR Congo, the partnership included capacity training at the university of Kisangani, the publication of a vulgarization lexicon on habitat and vegetation types (the preparation of a second one started this year), and strengthening the institutional partnership with the “Institut Congolais de la Conservation de la Nature” (ICCN). This included a.o. supporting the implementation of the LEM-habitats, support to Congolese students undertaking research in ICCN protected areas, cooperation with the group of geology for economical sustainable development (GECO), teaching tools and lexicons of plants dominant in their habitats. Within the Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) we supported projects and workshops in Ethiopia, DR Congo, Ecuador, Vietnam, and we invited 16 foreign visitors to Belgium, coming from Cameroon, Colombia Cuba, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya and South Africa. We prepared the publication of volume 13: Bréviaire de taxonomie des acariens of our series of capacity building manuals, Abc Taxa. The hydraulic marine ecosystem model “COHERENS” team continued providing distance coaching to its trained partners, and gave in house training, to experts from Indonesia, India, Brazil and Peru. Within the framework of the Clearing House Mechanism (CHM), a Pilot project initiated in 2011 to develop a tool for reporting for the NBSAP towards the AICHI targets was tested in 2012 by our CHM partners. We also demonstrated the tool in a side-event during COP11 as well as during an EU CHM network meeting. The EU meeting decided that the principles of the tool are very useful and to continue its development to include indicators. In parallel, we continued in 2012 our webmaster training activities, with workshops in Niger, Ghana and Burundi. We have started to get involved in ABS activities during the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) with H. de Koeijer as pilot for Belgium. As a first result Belgium nominated H. de Koeijer in the beginning of 2013 to participate in an expert meeting to develop a strategic framework for capacity building for Access and Benefit Sharing of genetic resources.
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Reassessment of the small "arctocyonid" Prolatidens waudruae from the Early Paleocene of Belgium, and its phylogenetic relationships with ungulate-like mammals
- ‘Arctocyonids’ are generally considered as including some of the most primitive ‘ungulates’ from the Paleocene. Although more than 15 genera are known from North America, European members of this order are less common and mainly belong to derived genera such as Arctocyon. However, one species of primitive arctocyonid, Prolatidens waudruae, was described from the early Paleocene of Hainin, Mons Basin, Belgium. Here we describe new dental positions of this small taxon, including for the first time upper molars and upper fourth premolar. Morphological comparisons confirm the position of P. waudruae among primitive ‘ungulates,’ with the closest North American arctocyonids being Prothryptacodon furens and Oxyprimus galadrielae. Oxyprimus galadrielae features slightly more primitive morphological traits than both other species. Apheliscids share several characters with Prolatidens, but the latter lacks the apomorphies defining the family. Among ‘arctocyonids,’ Prolatidens shares with only Protungulatum and Oxyprimus the incomplete lingual cingulum at the base of the protocone of M1. Prolatidens waudruae is unique among Procreodi in its combination of primitive and derived characters. The cladistic analysis places P. waudruae close to the base of the ingroup, indicating that this species is among the most primitive members of the Paleocene ‘ungulates.’ However, the lower nodes of the trees are not well supported and definitive conclusions should await more complete specimens and analysis. Apheliscids are situated relatively far from Prolatidens, suggesting that the resemblances between them are better considered as convergences. Based on the morphological comparisons, the arctocyonid from Hainin correlates best with North American Torrejonian taxa.
