Ecology - KWR

Restoration of dry dune grasslands after high nitrogen deposition

The dune water utilities face big challenges in the management and restoration of dry dune grasslands. As a...

Nutrients: which agricultural measures make sense?

This project is part of the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse. Agriculture plays a major part in the nutrient...

Toxicity: effect-directed water-quality measurement

This project is part of the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse. More than 140,000 chemical compounds are produced, used...

A strategy for exposure science

18 July 2019 — On the fourth and fifth of July 2019, I joined the de ISES Europe Exposure science strategy workshop.

Willem Koerselman Award for Ruud Bartholomeus

02 April 2019 — Ruud Bartholomeus has won the 2018 Willem Koerselman Award for the article “A plant’s perspective of extremes:...

NL-Fish Population Scan determines species composition of fish populations

14 June 2018 — The presence or absence of fish species provides information about the quality of the water. Within the ‘Monitoring...

Focus on tools for ecological diagnosis and impact prediction

28 February 2018 — The identification of aquatic organisms using DNA barcode information has accelerated rapidly in recent years. All over the...

Pharmaceuticals in wastewater conference

23 January 2018 — In the Meander Medical Center Amersfoort STOWA organized a conference about the presence of pharmaceuticals in wastewater. The...

Doctoral research into salt exposure and its impact on plants in low-lying polders

15 June 2017 — On 7 June, Sija Stofberg obtained her doctorate at Wageningen University & Research for her research into the...

Ruud, Martin and Jan Jaap @ European Geoscience Union

01 May 2017 — KWR gave one oral presentation, presented several posters and organized a session at the European Geosciences Union in...

Monitoring fish migration through eDNA

To bring the ecological quality of European waters up to standard, water management entities have to implement extensive...

Edu Dorland PhD

Edu Dorland has since 2016 been leader of the Ecohydrology team, heading a diverse group of ecologists and...

Prof. Kees van Leeuwen PhD

Cornelis Johannes (Kees) van Leeuwen, PhD, is Chief Science Officer and Principal Scientist at KWR, and Professor in...

Cooperating knowledge institutes: ‘Biomonitoring could be faster, more reliable and cheaper’

12 January 2016 — In March 2015, Naturalis Biodiversity Center and KWR Watercycle Research Institute sealed their agreement to become preferred partners...