Nature reports

The willow bent-wing Phyllocnistis triandricola, only described in 2023, has now also been found in the Netherlands and Belgium, but DNA research shows that the long-known Phyllocnistis saligna does not occur in the Netherlands..

Discovering a species new for science is on every researcher’s wish list. Jan Johan ter Poorten is a Dutch expert on cardiid species (family Cardiidae). Recently, he discovered three new species in the Caribbean. These were also..

The climate warmed up almost as quickly 56 million years ago as it is doing now. When a huge amount of CO2 entered the atmosphere in a short period of time, it led to large-scale forest fires and erosion. Mei Nelissen, PhD..

Researchers from Hortus botanicus Leiden and Radboud University have developed a novel, non-invasive method to measure the body’s response to pollen by analyzing exhaled breath. During walks along flowering grasses, concentrations..

The Dutch Western Scheldt estuary has been pushed onto an unsustainable trajectory since large-scale navigation channel deepening began in the 1970s. The dramatic increase in the annual volume of dredged sediment from the..

From insignificant individual cells to a rich community full of cooperation. That is how our understanding of the world of microscopic organisms has developed. This 'microbiome' has an enormous impact on the environment...

A historical bee collection from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History has been newly researched and photographed. Collected by the famous British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, it includes many specimens that were..

Fruiting plants rely on fruit-eating animals for seed dispersal. These animals have become increasingly scarce, especially the large ones. This is especially the case in areas where the balance is lost due to human interference...

China’s intertidal shellfish mariculture provides critical food for the world’s most threatened shorebird flyway. A continental-scale, decade-long study found that intertidal shellfish farms are shaping when and where millions of..

Great tits can't complain about a lack of attention. NIOO has hung nearly two thousand nesting boxes for this 'model species'. For seven decades researchers have been following these songbirds. This makes it the longest-running..