Nature reports

For more than twenty years, researchers at the University of Amsterdam, the Royal Netherlands Air Force and KNMI have used radar to track bird movement in one of Europe’s busiest airspaces. Their work improves aviation safety,..

The fall armyworm – the caterpillar of a moth species – can only be sustainably controlled with solutions tailored to regional differences. That is the conclusion of biologist Renée van Schaijk in her doctoral research. Her..

By recording biodiversity in the park by means of a one-day 'bioblitz', researchers are building a baseline for urban nature in Amsterdam. ARTIS Zoo is an urban green area, providing space to many wild species, in the middle of..

In a new study, researchers from the University of Amsterdam Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics try to explain why prey get away so often. Not only the physical performance of predator and prey seems to play a role..

Bewick’s swans are migrating less and less far to the southwest in winter. On average, they spend the winter 118 kilometres closer to their breeding grounds for every 1 degree Celsius increase in winter temperature...

Reduction of the island of Rodrigues after the last ice age caused large-scale aggression in the extinct giant solitary pigeon, researchers from the UvA and Maastricht University discovered. Due to a rapidly increasing shortage of..

Scientists have been studying how birds move and migrate for hundreds of years. Recently, understanding this complex phenomenon has become much more important because countries are building thousands of wind turbines in and around..

Natural pest control in agriculture is more promising if there are sufficient other landscape elements near a field that provide additional food for predatory insects. It is also good to grow several crops side by side that differ..

The United Nations' sustainable development goals can be achieved by relying extensively on the use of microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi and viruses. This was written by an international group of scientists, including Jef..

Scientists from the University of Amsterdam and University of Groningen are going to investigate micro-algae in the sea around Antarctica and their role in global cycles of carbon and sulphur. These algae form the basis of the..