262 search results for “biodiversity conservation” in the Student website
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Geert de SnooScience
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Caitlin BlackScience
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Kaixuan PanScience
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Kevin GroenScience
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Kees MustersScience
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Emily StrangeScience
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Mariana Braz PiresScience
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Merlijn van WeerdScience
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Matana Ng'weliScience
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Luuk SiewersScience
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Emilie DidaskalouScience
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Konstantinos GeorgopoulosScience
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Kat StewartScience
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Ellen CieraadScience
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Hanneke LankveldFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Historical research helps biodiversity in Leiden city centre
The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does justice to the city’s heritage. Researcher Fenna IJtsma delves into historical greenery to offer inspiration.
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Research projects launched into biodiversity in food and horticulture production
Two Leiden research projects that focus on increasing the biodiversity of Dutch production systems for food and ornamental horticulture have started thanks to funding from the Dutch Research Council's KIC research programme.
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Laura SchererScience
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Nature conservation in the Dutch Caribbean
A sense of security plays an important role in the decision to contribute to nature conservation. Stacey Mac Donald conducted four years of research on the influence of social and political changes and the (post) colonial context on nature conservation in the Dutch Caribbean. On 17 May she will defend…
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Conservation of Qasr Bshir featured as a cover story in Current World Archaeology
‘Qasr Bshir is magnificent even in decline. It sits majestically in the landscape, master of all it surveys. On approaching the site, however, it is clear that the structure is damaged’, states the latest issue of the journal Current World Archaeology.
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Anagnostis TheodoropoulosScience
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Sam BoerlijstScience
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Michiel HooykaasScience
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Athanasios MoraitisScience
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Valerio BarbarossaScience
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Niels RaesScience
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Marvin GroenScience
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Annetrude BoeijeScience
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Hazal KandemirScience
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Fleur van DuinScience
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Yun ShaoScience
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Jennifer AndersonScience
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Start pilot cultivating rice on peatland
Is polder rice a feasible circular alternative for cows on peatland? A pilot experiment started this week. On May 22nd, researchers from Leiden University and Wageningen University & Research (WUR) planted roughly 3,000 rice plants on the Polderlab near Leiden. The researchers want to test rice as a…
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What does biodiversity mean to us? Honours students produce podcasts about extinction
For the Bachelor Honours Class 'Mass Extinction', students produced podcasts about the past, the present and the future of mass extinctions. What exactly is lost when a species goes extinct? What are the practical consequences? But also: does humanity have the moral duty to protect other species?
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Ruben HueleScience
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Suriname symposium: focus on diversity and biodiversity
Conference
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Chengyi LiuScience
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Jie HuScience
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Michiel VeldhuisScience
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Liselotte RambonnetScience
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Sebastiaan GrosscurtScience
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In Memoriam Kennedy Kaminju Kariuki 05/11/1988- 28/12/2023
On the 30th of December, we received the sad message that our Kenyan colleague, Kennedy Kaminju Kariuki died on December 28, 2023 in the NW hospital in Nairobi at the age of 35 years from organ and heart failure. Kennedy was a PhD candidate at the CML, Leiden University.
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What DNA in droppings can reveal about an animal’s diet
Imagine scanning lion dung or a mouse dropping and instantly knowing exactly what and how much the animal has eaten. Thanks to new DNA techniques, this is becoming increasingly feasible. PhD student Kevin Groen tested how effective these techniques are at unraveling the diets of wild animals.
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Jorinde Nuytinck
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Suzanne MarselisScience
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Eefje de GoedeScience
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Niels van der WindtScience
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Together the universities from Leiden and Paramaribo tackle ecological and social challenges
Research on flora and fauna with attention for economic interests and partnership with the local population. This is all bundled in a cooperation programme of the Anton de Kom University of Suriname and Leiden University. Working together on the basis of equality is key. ‘A thorny challenge, but one…
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Ann BrysbaertFaculteit Archeologie
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Leiden University Student Platform (LUS)
The Leiden University Student Platform (LUS) is a student-led ‘think-tank’. It consists of eight members: one representative from each of the seven faculties plus one chair. The LUS provides independent advice on university-wide policies that concern all topics of relevance to students. It also awards…