Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

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Carrying capacity

Processes, interactions, and natural and anthropogenic pressures are synthesised and integrated using data analysis techniques, combined with biogeochemical, particle tracking, food web and population models. These analyses help to build understanding of the North Sea's carrying capacity for populations of marine species, and of pelagic and benthic ecosystem functioning and resilience. This leads to improved knowledge of how changes in physical and biogeochemical conditions affect habitat, magnitude and timing of primary productivity, species composition, food-web relations and connectivity.

Effects future offshore wind farms

Effects future offshore wind farms

NWO project | Research into the effects of future offshore wind farms on marine life, sediment, and underwater sand waves in the North Sea.

Space for birds & fishermen

Space for birds & fishermen

EU project |After a period of low fishing efforts, the recent strong increase in the stock of the cut through shell (Spisula subtruncata) in Dutch coastal waters...

SANDBOX

NWO project | Shallow coastal seas are subject to an increasing pressure by offshore operations, like sand mining and the construction of...

Benthic Metabarcoding

Benthic Metabarcoding

Project | Within the Insite project, possible effects of the epifauna on artificial structures on the surrounding benthic environment in the North-Sea is studied.

RECON-INSITE

Study | The aim of this study is to investigate and model the species distribution and inter-connectivity of reef communities on artificial offshore structures...