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Publisher: NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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Foram baby of 07/10 at 21 degrees Celcius (Amphistegina lessonii)

The fossil calciferous skeletons of single-celled foraminifers are a beautiful history book with information on CO2-levels in the oceans of the distant past. "But if you want to fully understand that history, you must first..


Continue reading 24 November 2023   11 mnd oud
Figure 1: A schematic tree of life with the primary domains, the Archaea and Bacteria shown in purple and blue, respectively and the secondary domain, Eukaryotes in green. The figure highlights key nodes in the tree of life that have been calibrated against absolute time scales of Earth history. Estimates are given in Ga referring to billions of year (or giga annum).

LUCA, the ‘last universal common ancestor’ of all living organisms, lived 4.32 to at most 4.52 billion years ago. This is indicated by a study from NIOZ biologists Tara Mahendrarajah and senior author Anja Spang, with..


Continue reading 22 November 2023   11 mnd oud
Emma Penning sampling the mudflat for shrimp and crab, the skyline of Griend on the background.

Contrary to the population trends for many shorebirds, sanderlings have been doing relatively well in the Wadden Sea for the past years. The key to that success lies in the timing of these little birds' main food: shrimp on the..


Continue reading 21 November 2023   1 jaar oud
Breaking glass spheres which generates sounds at a level that marine mammals use at great depth, which are then recorded from tens to hundreds of kilometers away.

Due to the changing climate, the underwater world is getting ever noisier. That is the main conclusion of a study that was published today in the scientific journal PeerJ. ..


Continue reading 16 October 2023   1 jaar oud
Cold water coral reef in de deep sea. The deep sea is all water deeper than 200 meters. Sunlight cannot penetrate to these depths.

For the first time, proof has surfaced that even cold-water coral reefs that live in the cold and dark deep sea, grow in self-organised patterns. Such pattern formation is a ’trick’ that enhances the resilience of ecosystems under..


Continue reading 14 October 2023   1 jaar oud
Nederlandse en Indonesische onderzoekers aan het werk in een eroderend en zinkend mangrovenbos

Along the Asian coastlines there are many areas where rural communities experience alarming rates of sea level rises due to land subsidence up to ten centimetres per year. This causes tremendous challenges on how to live there and..


Continue reading 03 October 2023   1 jaar oud
3D-geprinte riffen

With 3D printed 'lampshades', made of biologically degradable material, NIOZ PhD candidate Daniel Varley and colleagues have found a successful formula to give oysters, mussels and other reef builders 'a kick-start'. Numerous..


Continue reading 02 October 2023   1 jaar oud
Crabs

A herring in the North Sea, a crab in the Wadden Sea or an anemone fish on a coral reef, ... biologists like to think in terms of individual species that all have their own place within food webs in ecosystems across the world...


Continue reading 12 September 2023   1 jaar oud
Fieldwork

The expected increase in extreme weather could make the bottom of tidal flats more unstable. That's shown by NIOZ researcher Zhengquan Zhou in the PhD thesis he will defend at Utrecht University on September 7th. ..


Continue reading 02 September 2023   1 jaar oud
Jon Dickson and Dorien Luttikhuis with tree reefs

Artificial reefs in the Wadden Sea, made from discarded pear trees, are teeming with marine life after more than a year under water. That's shown in experiments by Jon Dickson, PhD candidate at NIOZ. "After four months, we already..


Continue reading 29 August 2023   1 jaar oud

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