Projects

Finalizing the Flore du Gabon series

A project about Laboulbeniales (general) with emphasis on resolving the phylogeny of the genus Laboulbenia and description of new taxa (Belgium & abroad).

DiSSCo is a world-class Research Infrastructure for the physical and digital curation of European natural science collections under common management and access policies. To make the collections more visible and used, their associated data and media should become more Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). Representing the largest ever formal agreement between natural history museums, botanical gardens, zoos, universities and ...

Mozambique has the third largest coastline in mainland East Africa. This coastline is – Somalia excluded – taxonomically the least explored in Eastern Africa. This is regretful given that studies show that this is an extremely productive area due to difficult to characterize upwelling and eddy systems, making it one of the highest biodiverse regions in the Indian Ocean. The three recognised marine bioregions (basically the South, the centre and ...

The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a pan-European Research Infrastructure of 21 countries. It positions natural science collections at the centre of scientific excellence and innovation in research on the environment, biodiversity, climate change, food security, health and bioeconomy. DiSSCo’s mission is to mobilise, unify and deliver bio- and geodiversity information at a
scale, format, and precision required by ...

European natural science collections contain the largest and most significant part of the world's scientific knowledge of the earth’s structure, environment and biosphere. They constitute a key international research infrastructure for tackling major socio-economic and scientific challenges. The Belgian collections cover all the fields of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, Geology, Palaeontology and Anthropology. Belgian scientific ...

This project aims to study ecosystem services of selected plant, algal and fungal groups in the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve. The focus will be on Robusta coffee, assessment of water quality through diatom monitoring, and edible fungi.

The objective of the program is to use the garden of Matebe hydroelectrical plant to promote environmental education in schools, civil society and the media in North Kivu. The activities will underline the Virunga National Park’s role in preserving this unique hotspot of Africa’s biodiversity through: (1) reinforcing the linkage between natural resources and development in a "modern botanical garden" around a "sustainable energy resource”; (2) ...

Müller (1903, 1904, 1910) described many new diatom taxa from East Africa based on material collected at the beginning of the 20th century. Original slides were lost during World War II but historic material was rediscovered at the Botanic Garden of Berlin, Dahlem. This makes it possible to designate lectotypes. During a previous SYNTHESYS project (2005) the investigation including lectotypification was undertaken for 32 taxa belonging to the ...