Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
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Royal Netherlands
Institute for Sea Research

Ecosystem restoration

We offer in depth ecological understanding, integrated with physical processes, as needed for developing sustainable coastal defence and successful ecosystem restoration. We closely collaborate with scientific institutes and engineers fromwith semi-commercial research institutes and consultancy componies. 

Builders on the beach
Builders on the beach
UU-NIOZ project | Testing the hypothesis that dune grasses self-organize to rapidly form high freshwater-storing dunes to survive flooding and drought...
Small steps, giant leaps
Small steps, giant leaps
VIDI project | Building coastal landscapes with spatially organizing plants. How clonally expanding grasses build landscapes through biophysical interactions.
More Value with mussels
More Value with mussels
Project | Investigating the possibilities to create littoral mussel beds and sustain them by means of active management.
Smartsediment
Smartsediment
EU-project | Evaluating different management strategies currently being executed in the Scheldt estuary and Oosterschelde.
BESE Bridging Tresholds
BESE Bridging Tresholds
Project | Developing multipurpose biodegradable structures for generating ecosystem services in degraded wetlands.
BioManCo
BioManCo
Project | Development of a model for mangrove-mud coast whom are not able to restore autonomously from human or natural disturbances.

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