Dit rapport gaat over de mogelijkheden voor de ontwikkeling van populaties platte oesters (Ostrea edulis) binnen bestaande en geplande windmolenparken in het Nederlandse deel van de Noordzee. In opdracht van het Ministerie van EZ is nagegaan welke eisen de platte oester stelt aan de omgeving, gericht op de habitatkarakteristieken van windparklocati...
De visserij op schelpdieren in de Nederlandse kustwateren heeft zich ontwikkeld van een vrije visserij tot een sterk gereguleerde visserij waarbij naast economische ook ecologische doelstellingen nagestreefd worden. In het kader van de uitvoering van dit beleid wordt jaarlijks een bestandsopname van Amerikaanse zwaardscheden (Ensis directus), halfg...
This report presents the results of the cod monitoring program 2016. The research was commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs within the EZ-program Beleidsondersteunend Onderzoek. Cod catches of the vessels in the fleet segments BT2 (beam trawl and pulse trawl) and TR (otter trawls and seines) need to be monitored yearly, due to the ...
The BRAIN project FaCE-iT (Functional biodiversity in a Changing sedimentary Environment: Implications for biogeochemistry and food webs in a managerial setting) funded by BELSPO aims at evaluating the influence of offshore wind farms settlements and dredging activities on the distribution of sediment grain size over the Southern Bight of the North...
editorial reviewed / The impact of offshore wind farm installation and dredging activities on the spatial distribution and dynamics of sediment grain size, biogeochemistry and biodiversity will be estimated in the Southern Bight of the North Sea (SBNS) with a focus on the Belgian Coastal Zone (BCZ) in the frame of the FaCE-It research project (Func...
Homoacetogenesis has become a hot topic, with industry interest, as a bio-process that can convert waste CO2 directly to a valorizable product (organic acids). However, the microorganisms catalyzing this reaction have remained little explored outside of their original discovery and later in the pioneering work on a few isolates in elucidation of th...
This report presents the results of a research concerning long waves in the North Sea. ‘Long waves’ in this research is a collective name for various types of waves that are longer than the well-known sea-swell waves, here referred to as ‘short waves’. Wave types that are referred to as long waves are infragravity waves, meteo-tsunami’s, seiches an...
