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Publisher: NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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NIOZ researchers have found the Pacific barnacle in the Wadden Sea for the first time. Until now, this species was only known to exist in European waters in Belgium and on the south coast of the Western Scheldt. It probably..


Continue reading 16 September 2025   2 dgn oud
Compilatie foraminiferen

The increasing amount of CO2 we are pumping into the atmosphere causes ocean acidification. That could pose a serious problem for calcifying organisms, such as shellfish and corals. And for foraminifers, but they appear to have..


Continue reading 06 September 2025   1 week oud

A contribution of 1 percent of all global investments in offshore wind projects by 2050 is sufficient for large-scale restoration of marine nature. This was revealed by an international study led by The Rich North Sea program (De..


Continue reading 01 August 2025   1 maand oud

The formation of mussel and oyster beds on sandy seabeds can be stimulated by using a hard substrate. However, when NIOZ PhD candidate Sterre Witte placed shells and pebbles with a simple or smooth structure, the baby shellfish..


Continue reading 09 July 2025   2 mnd oud
Een vestigende slijkgras plant midden in een meetframe. De plant heeft verschillende clusters met een aantal scheuten.

Cordgrass that establishes itself on virgin soil on the coast, tries to avoid the risks of being washed away by forming small clusters of plants. That is shown by the research of coastal ecologist Clea van de Ven, described in the..


Continue reading 24 May 2025   3 mnd oud
Florida beach erosion

Worldwide, coastal areas are squeezed between a rising sea level on one end and human structures on the other. The distance between a sandy coastline and the first human structures averages less than 400 meters around the world...


Continue reading 19 May 2025   3 mnd oud
A breeding red knot on the Siberian tundra

Many animal species become smaller or larger in recent decades, with climate change often mentioned as a cause. Red knots, shorebirds travelling ten thousand kilometers every year between breeding grounds in Arctic Russia and..


Continue reading 18 April 2025   5 mnd oud
ENG: Researcher Hannah Charan-Dixon with her team at work in the salt marshes. NL: Onderzoekster Hannah Charan-Dixon met haar team aan het werk in de kwelders.

For five years, more than 20 researchers acquired new ecological knowledge about the subtidal nature of the Wadden Sea, an often understudied but important part of this ecosystem. The projects Wadden Mosaic (Waddenmozaïek) and..


Continue reading 11 April 2025   5 mnd oud
ENG: Potamorcobula amurensis (16.92 mm), left photo: left valve, slightly smaller than the right valve. right photo: right valve. NL: Potamocorbula amurensis (16,92 mm), linker foto: linker schelp, iets kleiner dan de rechter schelp. rechter foto: rechter schelp.

The Asian clam has found its way to the Dutch Wadden Sea. This is shown by field researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). On other locations, the Asian clam has shown to be potentially highly invasive in..


Continue reading 19 March 2025   5 mnd oud
Eerste auteur Swan Sow, op weg om zeewatermonsters te nemen van de Long-Term Ecological Monitoring site van de British Antarctic Survey in Rothera.

Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature and the amount of sea ice. This is shown by coordinated measurements taken off the coast of the west..


Continue reading 11 March 2025   6 mnd oud

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