Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Sexual dimorphism in a population of +Pycnodontiformes of the Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) from Profeti (Province of Caserta, Southern Apennines, Italy)
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The Cretaceous fishes of Nardò. 41°. New data on the teleosts Capassoichthys alfonsoi (Ichthyodectidae) and Chanoides chardoni (Ostariophysi, Otophysi).
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Les poissons du Santonien (Crétacé supérieur) d’Apricena (Italie du Sud). 9°. Garganomyctophum sorbinii gen. et sp. nov. (Teleostei, Myctophiformes, Myctophidae)
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The Pantodontidae (Teleostei, Osteoglossomorpha) from the marine Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Lebanon. 1°. Pankowskipiscis haqelensis gen. and sp. nov.
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The Pantodontidae (Teleostei, Osteoglossomorpha) from the marine Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Lebanon. 2°. Petersichthys libanicus gen. and sp. nov.
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The Pantodontidae (Teleostei, Osteoglossomorpha) from the marine enomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Lebanon. 3°. Palaeopantodon vandersypeni gen. and sp. nov.
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Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Temnodontosaurus zetlandicus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria)
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1001 décisions, gouvernance et gestion - 1001 besslissingen, beleid en politiek
- Série de 10 vidéos des ministres publiées sur le channel Youtube "1001 for Biodiversity". Messages vidéos des ministres responsables de la biodiversité en Belgique à l'occasion de l'anniversaire des 20 ans de la ratification de la Convention sur la Diversité Biologique (CBD) par la Belgique et de la conférence 1001 décisions organisée le 20 mai 2016 à l'IRSNB par le Point focal national CDB. Chaque ministre livre un message sur sa politique en matière de biodiversité et un second message sur les actions qu'il met en oeuvre personnellement à l'inspiration du livret "366 gestes pour la biodiversité" publié par l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique.
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Biodiversity 2020 – Update of Belgium’s National Biodiversity Strategy
- "Biodiversity 2020, Update of Belgium's National Strategy (NBS)" has been developed as a direct response to Article 6 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. It was adopted on 13 November 2013 by the Interministerial Conference for the Environment, which is composed of the competent ministers of the Federal Government and the three Regions of Belgium (Flanders, Brussels, Wallonia). The Strategy spells out a range of priority objectives to anticipate, prevent and reduce the causes of biodiversity loss in Belgium. It is the unique national document on biodiversity that is applicable both at the federal and regional levels in order to comply with the European and international commitments made by Belgium. It offers a framework for the policy to follow and for the subsequent implementing actions to be developed.
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Late is not too late: redescriptions of some Carboniferous insects from Western Europe studied by Daniel Laurentiaux (Palaeodictyoptera, Paoliida)
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Revised lithostratigraphic scale of the Devonian of Belgium: An introduction and an homage to Pierre Bultynck
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Lower Devonian lithostratigraphy of Belgium
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Middle Devonian lithostratigraphy of Belgium
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Upper Devonian lithostratigraphy of Belgium
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Devonian lithostratigraphy of Belgium
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Hydrodynamic modelling of offshore photovoltaic installations within an existing wind farm in the Belgian part of the North Sea
- EcoMPV (Eco-designing Marine PhotoVoltaic installations) is a three years project (from October, 2022 to October, 2025) funded by the Belgian Energy transition fund. It will deepen the knowledge about environmental challenges related to offshore PV installations, aiming at technical solutions to mitigate undesired consequences and maximize beneficial impacts. Knowledge gaps will be addressed about (1) altered underwater light field, hydrodynamics, pelagic biogeochemistry and primary production, (2) the artificial habitat provision for colonizing fauna and fish, and (3) effects on carbon fluxes and sequestration. Advice for eco-designing offshore PV installations, paving the way to its environmental licensing, will be formulated in the framework of this project. Five partners are involved in this project: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Ghent University (UGENT), Tractebel Engineering S.A. (Tractebel), Jan De Nul and Dredging International (DEME). Regarding the Task 1.1: hydrodynamic modelling, the goal is to estimate the impact of MPV units on key hydrodynamics model parameters using the 3D hydrodynamic model COHERENS (Luyten (2014)). In interaction with the industrial partners, various conceptual MPV farm designs will be defined (different designs, different number of MPV units, different distance between MPV units). Each farm design will be implemented in the 3D COHERENS hydrodynamic model and tested against various meteorological-ocean conditions (winter vs summer, spring tide vs neap tide, etc.). The results will be studied in order to quantify the near- and far-field hydrodynamic changes in the current velocity field, turbulence, average kinetic energy as well as on the bottom shear stress variation. Furthermore, such modelling of potential hydrological changes serves as the initial step for a more detailed biogeochemical impact study, which will then allow for a complete impact assessment.
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Maps of faecal pellets deposition patterns around different conceptual floating MPV farms withing an existing OWF in the Belgian part of the North Sea
- EcoMPV (Eco-designing Marine PhotoVoltaic installations) is a three years project (from October, 2022 to October, 2025) funded by the Belgian Energy Transition Fund. The project will deepen the knowledge about environmental challenges related to offshore PV installations, aiming at technical solutions to mitigate undesired consequences and maximize beneficial impacts. Knowledge gaps will be addressed about (1) altered underwater light field, hydrodynamics, pelagic biogeochemistry and primary production, (2) the artificial habitat provision for colonizing fauna and fish, and (3) effects on carbon fluxes and sequestration. Advice for eco-designing offshore PV installations, paving the way to its environmental licensing, will be formulated in the framework of this project. Five partners are involved in this project: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Ghent University (UGENT), Tractebel Engineering S.A. (Tractebel), Jan De Nul and Dredging International (DEME). Task 3.3 is part of the third work package of the project (WP3) entitled “effect of MPVs on carbon sequestration”. It aims to assess the areas of the seabed impacted by the deposition of faecal pellets due to the installation of MPVs within the Mermaid wind farm concession. This work provides a first estimate of the enrichment of organic carbon flux to the sediments due to the presence of colonizing organisms on the floaters. A 3D Lagrangian particle tracking model, OSERIT, is used for this work.
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The ecology of infrastructure decommissioning in the North Sea: what we need to know and how to achieve it
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Environmental Impacts of Offshore Wind Farms in the Belgian Part of the North Sea: Marking a Decade of Monitoring, Research and Innovation.
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Radar registrations of bird migration validation through an interdisciplinary approach (RAVen project)
