Projects
Did an Early Ordovician onset of cooling of the Early Palaeozoic Icehouse trigger the most important rise in biodiversity in the history of life on Earth? Ghent University
The Ordovician world was long considered to be in a super-greenhouse state during almost its entire duration, marked only by intense glaciations at the end of the period. This end-Ordovician Hirnantian glaciation is famous for causing one of the three great Phanerozoic mass extinction events. However, emerging evidence now suggests that cooling towards the Hirnantian glacial maximum, and thus the onset of the Early Palaeozoic Ice Age (EPI) ...
Mobilising, harmonising and incentivising forest biodiversity and environmental monitoring data through Web 3.0 technology University of Antwerp
AGRIWILDING: evaluating the potential of merging biodiversity restoration and sustainable food production in future agri-environmental schemes. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Individual-based Value Assessment of Biodiversity in Policy Implementation (INVABIO) Hasselt University
Individual-based Value Assessment of Biodiversity in Policy Implementation (INVABIO) KU Leuven
The central objective of INVABIO is to strengthen biodiversity policies by tackling the implementation gap resulting from the complexity of assessing case-specific biodiversity impacts in permitting and sanctioning decisions. INVABIO will develop a novel value assessment framework that focusses on individual specimens or habitats to qualitatively and quantitatively assess impact gravity. Hence, we merge ecological, legal and economic ...
Individual-based Value Assessment of Biodiversity in Policy Implementation (INVABIO). University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Olivier Honnay: Reconciling biodiversity conservation with food production in sub-Sahara Africa: which role for sustainable intensification of agriculture? KU Leuven
The interpretation of the sabbatical period comprises three activities: 1) Writing a literature review on existing evidence for the effectiveness of sustainable intensification of agricultural production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for preserving natural ecosystems, and for the occurrence of rebound effects (` Jevons' paradox). If possible, this review will take the form of a quantitative meta-analysis. If too little data is available in the ...
Marine Forests of animals, plants and algae: nature-based tools to protect and restore biodiversity Ghent University
RESTORESEAS is a holistic integration of climate-adaptation in conservation and restoration, at functional scales from gene expression to cross-ocean distributions and long-term baseline shifts including past eDNA imprinted in marine sediments. It develops approaches for conservation and restoration integrating previously overlooked roles of microbes and pathogens. Biodiversity predictions over space and time, compared with past and future ...
ERA-NET: Restoring and Managing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of Temporary Pond Landscapes Vrije Universiteit Brussel
These habitats have been destroyed due to presumed associations with mosquito borne diseases and to optimize
agricultural activities while the services they provide are not acknowledged. Effective conservation and restoration of this
habitat and its unique fauna is hampered by the absence of an established ...