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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 verschenen. In minder dan 3 maanden was het boek geheel uitverkocht.

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Photographs of plants of Curacao from private collection grouped according to their taxonomy and local name.

Aerial photographs of Bonaire. The photographs are scanned from paper. Photographs are in their original obligue position and still need to be leveled and rectified. 

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Maps of the spatial variation of visual preferences for the environment on Bonaire based on the Panoramio and Flickr social media platforms.

See this report for details.

Diving on reefs is a great means for tourism around the world. The impacts of divers differ based on experience and if there is something of high interest to observe. Recreational divers enjoy taking pictures or videos to capture the organisms observed. One organism of great abundance on Bonaire’s reefs is the bicolor damselfish, Stegastes partitus. They are a planktivorous reef fish that feeds on plankton in the water column. An increase in flash photography, due to the increase in diving, may affect essential behaviors, such as feeding and predator avoidance. The bite rate for S. partitus will decrease under the influence of a stimulus, such as light. The S. partitus individual will have the same time in refuge and reemergence times as those affected by a predator. Individuals were observed under three treatment groups: hand (artificial predator), light, and control. For each 10- minute observation period, the bite rate, reemergence time, and time in refuge was recorded. The treatment groups had no effect on the time spent in refuge of bicolor damselfish. The results did have an effect on the bite rate, as well as, show that the presence of a current could affect the reemergence time, depending on the treatment group. This study provided evidence that flash photography can have some effects on fish behavior. Because this topic has not been observed in great detail, further studies on this topic should be conducted.

This student research was retrieved from Physis: Journal of Marine Science XVIII (Fall 2015)19: 34-39 from CIEE Bonaire.

Orthophoto mosaic of aerial photographs of Saba with a 20 cm resolution.

For more information read the report 'Production of Digital Terrain Models for the Dutch Caribbean' (Mücher et al., 2014).

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