Projects
Belgium’s Royal Institute of Natural Sciences is in direct contact with many scientific projects involving the co-operation of many institutions, both domestic and international.
Here are a few examples :
Sahelo-Saharan Antelopes
The Sahelo-Saharan desert and savannah area of northern Africa is larger than the surface of all of Australia. The expansion of the desert in this region is a problem of global concern. As a consequence, soil degradation by wind and water are affecting the land’s fertility. Going hand in hand with this development, the region has almost entirely been cleared from many of the indigenous Antelopes, and several species are in immediate danger of extinction or in serious decline.
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IBISCA
IBISCA is an international research programme aiming at studying simultaneously the diversity and distribution of a large variety of organisms in forests representatives of various geographical zones.
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MODIRISK
MODIRISK aims at studying biodiversity of mosquitoes and monitoring/predicting its changes, and hence actively prepares to address issues on the impact of biodiversity change with particular reference to invasive species and the risk to introduce new pathogens.
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Avian Influenza
This website allows the authorities in charge (AFSCA, CERVA, EC) to get immediate access to the results of the wild birds monitoring programme undertaken in the framework of the monitoring of the epidemiology of avian influenza, and its most pathogenic forms in particular.
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MOLARCH
The project entitled "Molecular archives of climatic history: exploring patterns of genomic differentiation in endemic species radiations of ancient lakes (MOLARCH)" is a ESF Collaborative Research Project that attempts to contribute to a better understanding of the evolutionary response of species to climate change, particulary over time scales long enough to shed light on the influence of global environmental fluctuations on genetic change.
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Gorilla Agreement website
This website is an information and communication tool on the developing Ngagi Gorilla Agreement under the UN Convention on Migratory Species (CMS). This agreement will be negotiated and hopefully agreed upon by all Gorillas Range States.
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Sexasex
Sexasex is a European training and transfer of knowledge network concerning study of sexual and asexual reproduction, with a focus on the asexual reproduction of ostracods.
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Biodiversity in Belgium
'Biodiversity in Belgium' is the result of a 5-year exhaustive inventory of all animal, plant, fungi and micro-organism groups present in our country. Still partially known but unexpectedly rich, our biodiversity suffers from many threats. Still badly known but unexpectedly rich, our biodiversity is much endangered?
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Ant'phipoda
Ant'phipoda is the Web’s reference centre on marine biodiversity in the Antarctic and is devoted to amphipode crustacea.
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Incheco
Incheco is a European multi-disciplinary research project whose activity falls at the crossroads of the life sciences, the environment, and chemistry. Its ultimate goal is to understand a chemical means of defence recently identified among phytophagous insects.
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The National Lottery (*) supports the acquisition of scientific equipment by the Institute.
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