Projects
A statistical framework to correct for preferential sampling in biodiversity studies Hasselt University
Remaking the Public Space’ ERASMUS IP A27D130ACA06D722 / Lifelong Long Learning Intensive Programme KU Leuven
Throughout the world’s cities, public space is playing an ever more important role in the production of places. At the same time, it has become the core of contradicting demand. Commodification, commercialisation and even militarisation of public space are indicators of its declining quality as a factor of urban identity, culture and the freedom of communication. While neglect and deterioration are among the factors for this withering; the ...
Where are All the (proglacial) Lake seDiments in the NOrth Sea Basin? Ghent University
Proglacial lakes have an enormous influence on glacier/ice margin stability, global sea level and climate; this is true for the past, the present and, more than ever, the near future. Such lakes form in front of glaciers or ice margins, where meltwater ponds in between the ice and a dam. Commonly, such dams consist of bedrock or glacial sediment deposited by the ice when it reached its maximum extent. When these dams are broken or overtopped, ...
Where are All the (proglacial) Lake seDiments in the NOrth Sea Basin? Flanders Marine Institute
FOURCAST - FOrest cold and URban heat island effects on Climate Adaptation of biodiversity at different Spatial and Temporal scales Research Institute for Nature and Forest
WP1 - A gridded dataset of historical climate data will be produced that, for the first time, includes urbanization and forest microclimate effects on past and current climate. It will contain monthly temperature and precipitation data from 1900 to today at a 1-km resolution over Belgium. An ...
Biological indicators Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Which set of existing or new indicators, and which related measures, data collections, boundaries and intercalibration can represent the quality of the marine environment as expressed in the European Directives? How can this be done in a feasible, correct and objective way? The aim of this study is to further develop, refine and test the existing tools in collaboration with national and ...
PERSUADE_Experimental research into the future sustainable use of artificial hard substrates in the North Sea Ghent University
Future coastal ecosystems will be challenged with a multitude of ecosystem-level stressors, resulting from both local anthropogenic activities and environmental change acting at the global scale. The installation of offshore wind farms (OWFs) is currently a major human activity in the coastal North Sea area, resulting in the introduction of large surfaces of artificial hard substrates (AHSs) in an otherwise sandy environment. At the moment, ...