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A big obstacle in nature- policy, management and research is to access excising long-term data in an environment that experiences a high turnover in...
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The Dutch Caribbean Biodiversity Database (DCBD; www.dcbd.nl) is a nature and biodiversity web-platform for the Dutch Caribbean funded by the Dutch...
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Since 2018 Wageningen University & Research and Carmabi cooperate in bringing together historical and...
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Veerkracht tegen klimaatverandering verloren door stapeling van drukfactoren
- stijgingen in de lucht
- en zeewatertemperatuur
- zeespiegelstijging...
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To secure the sustainable use of nature, governments track nature’s health and develop regulations and policies.Although there is a seeming abundance...
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HIGHLIGHTS
• Web-platforms on nature inform the development of regulations and policies.
• Although many data exist, policy makers are constrained by...
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Results from a series of designs sessions, workshops and interviews describe a vision for Bonaire in 2050. In this vision, measures to combat...
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Nederlands below
Two recently published studies document 35 new beetle species for the islands of Saba and St. Eustatius. Even with these latest...
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Achtergrond
Caribisch Nederland (Bonaire, Saba en St. Eustatius) en de Koninkrijkspartners Aruba, Curaçao en Sint Maarten worden nu en in de komende...
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Main Findings
The main climate change vulnerabilities for Bonaire are: an increase in the intensity of hurricanes and tropical storms, an increase in...
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Seagrasses are marine flowering plants that can reproduce both sexually (through flowering and subsequent seed formation) and asexually (through...
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Dutch, Papiamentu and Papiamento below
On Friday, January 20th, 2023, Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Mr. Robbert Dijkgraaf, visited the...
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Abstract
Small Islands (SIs) often have a small capacity to resist or recover from the increasing impacts of climate change and, therefore,...
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Abstract
Small Islands (SIs) often have a small capacity to resist or recover from the increasing impacts of climate change and, therefore,...
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The Yarari Sanctuary is now legally established as a nature park by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality,...
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Bonaire might have been on lockdown in 2020, but that didn’t keep Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire from working hard. Their recently published annual...
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Using cryopreserved reproductive cells of elkhorn corals, researchers have crossbreed individuals from Florida and Puerto Rico with those of Curaçao...
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University of Applied Sciences Van Hall Larenstein and Wageningen University and Research recently conducted a comparative study of artificial reefs...
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The Global Mangrove Alliance’s recent report on the State of the World’s mangroves served as a call to action for mangrove conservation and...
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A new DCNA project “Monitoring for Bird Biodiversity Conservation in the Dutch Caribbean” has officially...
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This month’s issue focuses on the development of the Dutch Caribbean Biodiversity Database, which addresses one of the biggest gaps for nature...
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Raw photo material of the 2016 reef survey using the GCRMN method.
The 20 survey sites lie within the St. Eustatius National Marine Park, which...
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Raw data of a comparative nutrient monitoring program that included seasonal sampling for nutrients (ammonium, nitrate, DIN, SRP, TDN, TDP),...
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Wim ter Hart, op 1 april 1955 als marinier naar Curaçao uitgezonden. Na twee jaar dienstplicht aldaar gebleven en gewerkt als luchtfotograaf en...
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Orthophoto mosaic of aerial photographs of Saba with a 20 cm resolution.
For more information read the report 'Production of Digital Terrain Models...
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Aerial photographs of Bonaire. The photographs are scanned from paper. Photographs are in their original obligue position and still need to be...
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Description: This is a raster layer showing the results of a supervised Support Vector Machines classification of Coralita (Antigonon leptopus) land...
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Multiple topographical map layers:
Roads (source: Imms, E.)
Buildings (source: DCNA)
Fences (source: Puijk, A., 2015)
Contours (source...
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Detailed 3D maps of known Bonairian cave systems.
Caves are especially found in relative soft calcareous rock dissolving and eroding as a result from...
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Raw Invertebrate monitoring data. During monitoring the species and the number of individuals of that species is counted at 66 different locations....
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Raw photo material of the 2019 reef survey using the GCRMN method.
The 12 survey sites lie within the Bonaire National Marine Park, which surrounds...
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Supplementary information for Coralita mapping (Report) publication (BioNews Article).
Supplementary Text In the Material and Methods section of...
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Raw photo material of the 2015 reef survey using the GCRMN method.
The 20 survey sites lie within the St. Eustatius National Marine Park, which...
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As pollinators of the typical dry forest cacti, bats are a keystone species. Dry tropical forests are the most threatened type of forest in the Dutch...
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Around 20,000 trees are being planted in various locations on the island. Mostly indigenous trees will be planted, although several non-indigenous...
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Het luchtfotoboek "Curaçao in Vogelvlucht'' met meer dan 200 zwart/wit foto's van het hele eiland zijn gemaakt in de jaren '60.. Het boek is in 1971...
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Multiple topographical map layers:
Roads (source: CARMABI.)
Contours (source: CARMABI)
Cliffs (source: CARMABI)
Inland island (...
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This handwritten report hurricane Lenny's damage to all dive sites on Klein Bonaire provides an overall impression of the condition of all corals /...
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Raw underwater towed video transects of the seabed of the Sababank. Originally made to estimate the queen conch densities these video's depict many...
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TurboVeg vegetation recordings stored in a SQLLite database (Hennekens and Schaminée, 2001) containing recordings from plot observations. The...
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Improved AsterDEM for Bonaire rescaled to 1-meter spatial resolution and 1m height resolution.
The ASTERDEM has been improved amongst others for...
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R script
Stela also attached the R script she used for the report. Please let her know if anyone wants to use it and needs her help, and she’ll go...
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Historical Data and Background
The first known qualitative seagrass survey in Lac Bay was conducted in 1969. Sincethen, additional quantitative...
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To follow the health of the coral reefs of Bonaire and Curacao a number of locations on each island are photographed each year since 1973. At each...
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Raw data of fish biomass based on the Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment method (AGGRA) for the locations:
calabas
no dive reserve
front porch...
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Mosaicked and orthocorrected Red Green Blue (RGB) composite image from hyperspectral images taken from airplane from the coast of Bonair with a...
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In 2014 a part of the Curacao reef was captured by underwater photography. From this photo collection a 3D model and an ortho-photo of that part of...
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Raw underwater videos 'Baited Remote Underwater Video' (BRUV). The video material is many Terabytes large.
Please contact the DCBD administrator...
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Raw data of landings of fisheries on Saba. The data include: triplogs, fishing area, catch, fishing method, species composition, whale sightings, etc...
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World view ortho rectified, 4 band pan sharpened satelite image from November 19, 2018.
Res: 32.53cm Cloud: 0% Off-Nadir...
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This supplementary data belongs to the article: Hoeksema, B.W., van der Loos, L.M., van Moorsel, G.W.N.M., 2022. Coral diversity matches marine park...
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At the end of 2016 / beginning of 2017 a coral bleaching event was reported on Bonaire. Directly after the event quadrant photographs were taken to...
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Raw photo material of the 2017 reef survey using the GCRMN method.
The 20 survey sites lie within the St. Eustatius National Marine Park, which...
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Pleiades ortho rectified, 4 band pan sharpened satelite image from January 1, 2018.
Res: 50cm Cloud: 0% Off-Nadir: 14.05...
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Part of the larger The impacts of climate change on Bonaire (2022-present) report available here - https://www.dcbd.nl/document/impacts-climate-...
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Introduction
Caribbean islands are at the forefront of the climate crisis, with effects already starting to become noticeable in the region. Experts...
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Only Four of Twenty Biodiversity Targets On Track to Achieve Goals in the Dutch Caribbean
A recently published report issued by the Kingdom of the...
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Introductie
De eerste effecten van de klimaatcrisis zijn nu al zichtbaar in het Caribische gebied en de verwachting is dat dit in de komende jaren...
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Very high resolution satellite imagery has been acquired for Bonaire and concerns very detailed ortho-rectified imagery from the Pleiades satellites...
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Nederlands below.
Researchers from Van Hall Larenstein, Wageningen University and Wageningen Marine Research have developed a new approach to assist...
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A B S T R A C T
Stony corals play a key role in the marine biodiversity of many tropical coastal areas as suppliers of substrate, food and shelter...
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Please find attached a receivers logbook template with explanation and recommendations below, developed by DCNA's Shark Intern Estela Grau and Guido...
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In 1911, J. Smeulders & Co. at The Hague published the “Topographic map of Curaçao” in 18 pages, measuring 46 x 46 cm; nowadays known as the “...
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Researchers from Wageningen University & Research and the University of Amsterdam report on a fascinating...
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Coral reef protection is the process of modifying human activities to avoid damage to healthy coral reefs and to help damaged reefs recover. The key...
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A student of University of Amsterdam and a staff researcher of Naturalis Biodiversity Center and University of Groningen recently published the first...
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On October 22st, 2021, the first ever recorded Diadema sea urchins in the Caribbean were cultured on Saba. Diadema sea urchins are important grazers...
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A study by Wageningen University and Research set-up a series of design sessions, workshops and interviews to describe a vision for...
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Informational material for regulations outlined in the Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species of wild flora and fauna (also known as...
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New research from Wageningen University, University of Amsterdam and Florida International University highlighted the role herbivorous fish species...
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Wageningen Marine Research and Caribbean Netherlands Science Institute released an updated report on the fishery trends for St. Eustatius between...
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Caribbean flora and fauna have always coped with the destructive forces of hurricanes. However, climate change leading to an increase in their...
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Researchers from University of Amsterdam and CARMBABI Foundation implemented 3-dimensional reef surveying techniques to improve representation of...
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Wageningen University and Research and the University of Applied Sciences Van Hall Larenstein researchers have recently identified two new nonnative...
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A new study by researchers from the University of Texas and California Polytechnic State University documented herbivorous fishes feeding on fish...
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Nederlands and Papiamento below.
Researchers from the Florida Atlantic University and University of California recently discovered a new species of...
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A new collaborative study provides new insight into how two species of minke whales utilize the Caribbean and neighboring Atlantic waters throughout...
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Nederlands below.
The mangrove forest of Lac Bay, Bonaire, is experiencing a die-off of trees in its northern area. Increasing the tidal exchange by...
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A new study from the Aeres University of Applied Sciences combined expert knowledge and an analysis of historical data concerning whale ship strikes...
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Benthic cyanobacterial mats, at low cover, are an important benthic component of coral reefs, but have recently drastically proliferated on reefs...
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Last December, a beetle catalogue for the Dutch Caribbean was published. This voluminous paper provides the first critical review of the beetle...
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The Dutch Caribbean island Bonaire has protected its marine resources for more than 35 years and has been ranked as one of the Caribbean’s top dive...
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Coralita is an invasive plant species, rapidly spreading across St. Eustatius. A recently published report highlighted the ability to use satellite...
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Manmade structures such as seawalls, breakwaters, and jetties are increasing in frequency in marine coastal environments. Overtime, these structures...
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Nederlands below:
Diadema sea-urchins play a vital role in maintaining a balanced coral reef ecosystem and their restoration is essential to assist...
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The St. Maarten Nature Foundation scientifically researched the impacts of Hurricane Irma on St. Maarten coral reefs using Global Coral Reef...
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A new study by Wageningen Marine Research, St. Eustatius National Parks Foundation and Caribbean Netherlands Science Institute highlights the need...
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Healthy mangroves act as carbon sinks, storing a variety of greenhouse gases. As mangroves degrade this ability is lost, but to what extend is still...
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Commissioned by Sint Maarten’s Ministry of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure (VROMI), a color vegetation map produced...
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As part of the Caribbean Island Biogeography meets the Anthropocene project, researchers initiated their surveys for exotic reptile and amphibian...
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Nederlands and Papiamentu below.
Last May, the Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance (DCNA)‘s research intern Nina Zander requested via (social) media...
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Concerned at Lack of Mention of the Impacts of Climate Change During Address of King Willem Alexander at the Joint Session of the States-General of...
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A recent report released by STINAPA notes the occurrence of coral bleaching on Bonaire between 2016 and 2020. During this study, coral bleaching was...
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Mangroves create new land by slowly packing sediment within their roots, however too much sediment can lead to dieback. Researchers from...
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Wageningen Research recently published an alarming report on the natural resources of the three Dutch Caribbean islands Bonaire, Saba and St....