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In recent years, different temperature records have been broken in Belgium, both cold and warm temperatures.

source: Frank Deboosere
https://www.frankdeboosere.be/vragen/vraag199.php

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Several species are listed as A3 Blacklisted widespread species in Belgium since 1730 (see table).

The most recent widespread invase species is the Northern Willowherb (Epilobium ciliatum) which hasn't been rankiedyet.

source:
https://ias.biodiversity.be/species/all

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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in Belgium

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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in Belgium

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Several species occuring in Belgium are maked as "Critically Endangered".

Some examples include the European Eel (Anguilla anguilla); Yellow-breasted Bunting (Emberiza aureola); Cullum's Bumblebee (Bombus cullumanus); Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) and the North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena glacialis).

source: IUCN
https://www.iucnredlist.org/search?landRegions=BE&searchType=species

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Although Belgium doesn't suffer from major exploitation of it's indigenous wildlife, it  unfortunately played a pivotal role in the illegal trade of wild  animals and plants.

source: vrt news
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2018/11/07/belgium-plays-pivotal-role-in-the-illegal-trade-in-wild-animals/

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Belgium's natural landscape is highly fragmented.

Possible effects of habitat fragmentation and climate change on the range of forest plant species:
Almost all forest plant species had an extremely low success of colonizing spatially segregated new suitable forest habitats after c. 40 years

source: Ecology letters, 2002
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00346.x

some natural areas still do fine.

For example: No evidence of a plant extinction debt in highly fragmented calcareous grasslands in Belgium

source:  Biological conservation 2006
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320706002734

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1. Niche partitioning in goshawks based on ranging behaviour.

source: Researchgate
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233811416_Niche_partitioning_by_two_sympatric_goshawks_in_the_Australian_wet_tropics_ranging_behaviour

2. Resource partitioning among bumble bees.
Species have proboscises of different lengths, enabling them to specialize in the exploitation of plants with different length corollas. Species with similar length proboscises occur at different altitudes (Pyke 1982).

Source: Begon et al. 1990

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Ecological nice of characteristic animals

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Ecological nice of characteristic animals

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1.  Beaver
Are known as "ecosystem engineers" because these animals physically alter habitats by cutting down trees, building dams, digging canals and creating wetlands
https://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/Documents/BeaverStreamEcosys.pdf

2.  Pilated Woodpecker
Another "ecosystem engineer"
https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/sciencef/scifi57.pdf

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1. Gyrodactylus bios
The Gyrodactylus (Monogenea, Gyrodactylidae) parasite fauna of freshwater sand gobies (Teleostei, Gobioidei)

source: Parasitology Research
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00436-013-3693-8

2. Varroa mite
Varroa mites infesting Honey Bee colonies

source: Entomology at the University of Kentucky

https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef608

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1. Amblyseius californicus and spider mites (Tetranychus). Usefull for biocontrol in crops:

source: https://www.biobestgroup.com/en/biobest/products/biological-pest-control-4463/beneficial-insects-and-mites-4479/californicus-system-4645/

2. A Specialized Predator-Prey Relationship Between the Copepod Sapphirina Angusta and the Pelagic Tunicate Thalia Democratica

source:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-marine-biological-association-of-the-united-kingdom/article/specialized-predatorprey-relationship-between-the-copepod-sapphirina-angusta-and-the-pelagic-tunicate-thalia-democratica/25AACF7FC442EBFFA0F3B7C834A1B079

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Belgium's geographic area's and threats to the environment. 

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Belgium's geographic area's and threats to the environment. 

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Belgium contains three main geographical regions – the coastal plain in the north-west, the central plateau, and the Ardennes uplands in the south-east, it is on its hills that much of the wildlife can be found.

Belgium's Biodiversity is under serious threat as a result of human activities. The main reasons for the decline of biodiversity are the destruction and fragmentation of natural habitats, pollution and eutrophication caused by agricultural and industrial practices, excessive water catchments in some areas, climate change and perturbations linked to leisure and tourism.

source: IUCN
https://www.iucn.org/regions/europe/resources/country-focus/belgium

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Among the endemic invertebrate species described from Belgium are a cave-dwelling rove beetle Tychobythinus belgicus (see photo by J-M Hubart, ), a parasitic wasp Cleruchus raignieri, the cave-dwelling springtails Oncopodura dethieri and Deharvengiurus severini, and a sheetweb spider Diplocephalus caecus.

source: http://lntreasures.com/belgium.html

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Biodiversity in the North Sea, along the Belgian shores rediscovered:
https://www.naturalsciences.be/en/news/item/2839

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Most likely reason for the decision to reintroduce grey wolves into the National Park.

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Most likely reason for the decision to reintroduce grey wolves into the National Park.

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3.     The wolves were brought in because the increased elk population was overgrazing the deciduous, woody species such as aspen and cottonwood.

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Using cost-effective methods to facilitate taxonomic revisions

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Using cost-effective methods to facilitate taxonomic revisions

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From theory to practice: a photographic inventory of museum collections to optimize collection management | Biodiversity Informatics

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The digitization of museum specimens is a key priority in the Digital Era. Digital databases help to avoid unnecessary manipulation hazards to delicate collections, increase their accessibility to third party researchers, and contribute to the ongoing documentation of global biodiversity.

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The use of low cost compact cameras with focus stacking functionality in entomological digitization projects

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The use of low cost compact cameras with focus stacking functionality in entomological digitization projects

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focus stacking
        compact camera
        canon-cognysis
        mass digitization
        entomology
        collections

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The use of low cost compact cameras with focus stacking functionality in entomological digitization projects

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Digitization of specimen collections has become a key priority of many natural history museums. The camera systems built for this purpose are expensive, providing a barrier in institutes with limited funding, and therefore hampering progress.