De Nederlandse samenleving gebruikt verschillende goederen en diensten die ecosystemen leveren – de zogeheten ecosysteemdiensten. Het zichtbaar maken van de toestand en trends van ecosysteemdiensten in Nederland kan helpen bij de oordeelsvorming en besluitvorming van natuur in Nederland door de overheid en het bedrijfsleven. Resultaten laten zien d...
In light of the projected climate change for the coming decades, there is an urgent need for multifunctional landscapes that are capable to provide a diversity of ecosystem services. This requires a better understanding of social and ecological factors that influence how these landscapes are managed and how this, in turn, influences the provision o...
In dit onderzoek is voor Rijkswaterstaat-WVL aan de hand van de casestudie Noordwaard-poldergewerkt aan de ontwikkeling van een instrumentarium waarmee voor verschillende RWS-gebieden de levering van ecosysteemdiensten in kaart kan worden gebracht, handelingsperspectieven kunnen worden gegeven en synergieën en trade-offs van maatregelen inzichteli...
The objective of the research presented in this thesis was to understand the patterns of benthic biodiversity on reefs in the North Sea. To gain this understanding, I studied which species are present on natural and artificial reefs, what environmental and biotic variables influence the presence and absence of a selection of these species and one o...
Recent emphasis on ecosystem services as a framework to evaluate ecosystems and to promote their sustainable use has drawn attention to how organisms contribute to the delivery of services. Soil attributes and biotic interactions play important roles in ecological processes (e.g. soil formation, nutrient turnover, carbon sequestration and transform...
Terrestrial ecosystems support a high plant diversity where different plant types coexist. However, the mechanisms that support plant coexistence are not entirely clear. Savanna ecosystems that are nutrient and water limited are characterized by a unique ecological feature: the coexistence of trees and grasses. Tree-grass interactions in savannas a...
This memorandum provides an estimation of the costs for four variant closures for the protection of the benthic ecosystem on the Frisian Front and the Central Oyster Grounds for the Dutch fishing sector in addition to the cost-benefit analysis carried out in Van Oostenbrugge et al. (2015). The two preferential variants lead to similar costs for the...
