Nature reports

For shorebirds such as sanderlings, food availability is determined not only by the abundance of prey, but also by the precise locations and periods during which prey are available. Research by Emma Penning and others shows that..

Most sidewalks are paved with square grey concrete slabs. If you look closely at older paving stones, you will often spot pale grey circular patches, about the size of the base of a soft drink can. These are lichens, living..

In marine environments, sponges tend to eat other organisms to get their nutrients, but they can also use photosynthesis, in collaboration with microbes. This phenomenon can help with the productivity – the amount of energy and..

Scientists have discovered a new widow spider species in the Andes in South America. Latrodectus lucacha is a variant of the infamous black widow. The researchers described the habitat of the 'medically relevant' species by..

A new analysis of hundreds of thousands of surveyed plots of land reveals that plant diversity is declining in many areas, particularly forests. Grasslands, on the other hand, are recovering. The study also shows that protecting..

Few people realise how important peatlands are for biodiversity and climate. The youth collective RE-PEAT aims to change that. During their Young People Old Peat symposium, artists, scientists and activists explored new ways to..

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,..

Lesser black-backed gulls from the colony at the Dutch island Neeltje Jans appear to avoid the wind farm off the Zeeland coast. NIOZ ecologist Rosemarie Kentie and her colleagues suspected the gulls were attracted by fishing boats..

Dutch and Antillean researchers are joining forces to improve our understanding of nature on Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. A new project combines centuries old natural history collections with high tech image recognition and DNA..

On 20 March, the symposium 'Evidence-based Rewilding' took place in Wageningen. This symposium focused on the results achieved with rewilding projects over the past thirty-five years. National and international speakers from..