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Counting plants and small freshwater creatures for citizen science17 June 2019Local residents, scientists and students are investigating riverbanks in Leiden for the 'Bank Plants' citizen science project. Which plant species are...
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Experts provide three necessary solutions to the biodiversity crisis20 May 2019It came as a shock to many people: one million plant and animal species are threatened to become extinct. But this number isn’t the most relevant aspe...
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@ThroughOcular shows the beauty of plants, fungi and algae28 March 2019Beautiful microscopic specimens play the leading role in the course 'Biodiversity Plant' for first-year Biology students. Normally these are put back ...
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Economic expansion and land use cause bird extinction05 March 2019Population growth, economic expansion and the associated land use caused an increase in the number of bird species facing extinction and a reduction i...
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Untangling the Evolution of a Balanced Lethal System22 February 2019Ben Wielstra strives to unravel the evolution of balanced lethal systems. On 1 February he started his own lab at the Institute of Biology Leiden. Wie...
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Female budgerigars like smart males10 January 2019If male budgerigars can successfully open a puzzle box with food, they become more attractive to females. Biologist Carel ten Cate and Chinese colleag...
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Measuring species traits for biodiversity policy goals27 September 2018An international team including Peter van Bodegom shows how trait variability can be incorporated in Essential Biodiversity Variables to allow monitor...
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TERRA-Dunes, a collaborative CML-IBL project has been on NPO1 radio12 September 2018Nadia Soudzilovskaia (CML), Martijn Bezemer (IBL / NIOO) and Harrie van der Hagen (ecologist at Dunea) gave an interview to NPO1 Radio about the TERR...
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On safari in the Bio Science Park06 August 2018It is a warm day. The sun is shining brightly while biologist Marco Roos makes his way through the bushes towards a peculiar little plant. Insects buz...
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What we can learn from hi-tech nature08 March 2018Biodiversity in the Netherlands is having a tough time. Professor of Natural Capital Koos Biesmeijer combines research with practical advice: from th...
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Even plants can have neighbour trouble12 December 2017Restoring a natural plant environment on exhausted agricultural lands and in nature areas is difficult. We can speed this up by steering the soils to...
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Refugee student wins Peter Baehr Prize 201602 February 2017With the support of the Foundation for Refugee Students UAF, Russia expert Oshank Hashemi, a cum laude graduate of Leiden University, has won the Pete...
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Most species-rich coral reefs are not necessarily protected22 November 2016Coral reefs throughout the world are under threat. After studying the reefs in Malaysia, Zarinah Waheed concluded that there is room for improvement ...
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MOOC ‘Evolution Today’30 September 2016Evolution is all around you every day. This is the message of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) of Leiden University and Naturalis that is offered f...
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Leiden University and Naturalis join forces to launch new ‘Evolution Today’ MOOC23 September 2016
Evolution is all around you every day. This is the message of the new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) of Leiden University and Naturalis that begins...