Projects
Impact of a conservation project on household livelihoods and wealth in the northern edge of Dja Faunal Reserve Ghent University
ALUNA : Child-protection based strategies to fight against sexual abuse and exploitation crimes Vrije Universiteit Brussel
no borders. The continuous increase in child sexual abuse and exploitation, not least due to the Covid#19 pandemic, highlight the
importance of harmonised national legislation and international cooperation to prevent these offenses, protect the victims and prosecute
the perpetrators. The fight ...
The Star-formation histories and dark-matter content of faint dwarf elliptical galaxies Ghent University
In a cosmological context the dwarf galaxies (stellar masses M < 10^9 Msun) are crucially important because they hold keys to solve some of the most important questions in current extragalactic astronomy:
- What are the effects of the environment on the evolution of galaxies? Because of their low masses, dwarf are ideal targets to study environmental processes such as ram-pressure stripping and galaxy harassment.
- What are the ...
Metatranscriptomics analysis of soil food web control on ecosystem functioning. University of Antwerp
Ecological study on foreshore sand suppletion at the Flemish coast Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
What ecological effects on the Belgian coast does a foreshore suppletion (creating an underwater sand buffer) have on the marine ecosystem in the shallow surf zone (1-2 m depth)? This project provides scientific support for the Belgian Master plan for Coastal Defense. Beach suppletions and other coastal defense works are planned along the Belgian coast to safeguard the coastal inhabitants. In ...
Functional biodiversity in a changing sedimentary environment: implications for biogeochemistry and food webs in a managerial setting Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
What happens to our seafloor ecosystem when local sediment hardens or refines due to human intervention? That is the question in the FaCE-It project. Southern North Sea sediments are hardening as a result of the construction of wind turbines, where the foundation provides a diverse substrate for marine fauna. Sediment fining results from a combination of sand mining, bottom (trawl) fishing, dumping ...
Brussels Environment Species 3 - Short and midterm management of the species database of Brussels Environment Research Institute for Nature and Forest
This work includes:
- Maintenance support for data imports
- Maintenance support for imported data (short and medium term)
- Support in maintenance and development of database functions and structure
- Support in querying the (improved) data structure
A primer to the use of African ostracods in water quality assessment: taxonomy and ecology of non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) from Benin. Hasselt University
Shelf ecosystems along the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain prior and during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum KU Leuven
Projections of anthropogenic global warming predict extreme impacts on ecosystems, including loss in biodiversity, fluctuations in hydrological cycles, and variations in duration and intensity of seasons. Climate prediction, and resulting mitigation needs depend on the accuracy of climate models, which in turn rely on trustworthy climate data from the past. The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is considered one of the best analogs for ...