DannyMattheeusen’s BioArea B by Danny Mattheeusen

Just started

danny_mattheeusen — 2019-01-12 19:28:15 UTC

Just started how to learn to work with padlet - not easy for a beginner
Bee hotel at the natural reserve Westerlo Rothoek Belgium.

Theme B: Introducing biodiversityI live in Belgium, in Flanders, near Westerlo.

danny_mattheeusen — 2019-01-17 18:39:14 UTC

Searching for biodiversity hotspots, we don't find much in Flanders, especially not near the river "Grote Nete", where I live. We only have a small amount of very big natural reserves, and a very few hotspots in Belgium.
On www.br.fgov.be/BIODIV/
we find something on biodiversity hot spots in Belgium. This website is an inventory of the resources concerning biodiversity available in Belgium.

The inventory concerns: institutions public and private, people (professional and private), specialistsresearch subjects and collections ordered by geography, taxonomy, miscellaneous and diversitas classification.

BIODIV also includes a list of reference literature on biodiversity,
announcement of events, news and other links related to biodiversity.

Theme C : My BioArea .

danny_mattheeusen — 2019-01-17 19:15:57 UTC

My Bio-Area is in Westerlo, a small natural reserve, in the valley of the river Grote Nete in Westerlo, called "Rothoek-Kwarekken".
We never found any endemic species in this area. It is a nice abiotic environment with wetlands, dry wetlands and a lot of special fauna and flora.

Theme : Endemic species in Belgium. Rare !

danny_mattheeusen — 2019-01-17 19:34:36 UTC

We never found any endemic species in this area (in Belgium, which is not an isolated area, they only found once an endemic species in the Ardenne): the only one is brome of ardenne (or Bromus bromoideus):
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromus_bromoideus

Reintroduction of grey wolves into the National Park. Most likely reason for the decision:3. The wolves were brought in because the increased elk population was overgrazing the deciduous, woody species such as aspen and cottonwood.

danny_mattheeusen — 2019-01-18 12:52:07 UTC

Wolves in The Kempen:

Relationships of organisms in ecosystems, niches, etc.

danny_mattheeusen — 2019-02-06 18:25:12 UTC

An exercise on local situations.

Loss of water habitats is a big problem for insects.

danny_mattheeusen — 2019-02-06 20:11:17 UTC

danny_mattheeusen — 2019-02-08 16:23:34 UTC

My Bio Area ! Compare and evaluate !

danny_mattheeusen — 2019-02-08 16:41:58 UTC

The most difficult question was the "compare and evaluate" question.

Each Bio Area has its specific species, habitats and ecology. It is therefore not possible to give a unequivocal answer to this question, so do not let us alone evaluate it. All input was great and practical !

The course is well structured and automatically there are accents according to the areas, the knowledge of the areas, and the knowledge and interest of the students. What will be a rare species in one area can be general in another area, even in Europe. The climate effects are probably more comparable, but here too it depends on which habitat, which species, niches, and how biodiversity is seen. In any case, I certainly found nicer and better images, descriptions and representations than those that I posted on my padlet about my rather limited Bio Area. Certainly I learned from this course which gave me a better insight in ecology, biodiversity, nature conservation and climate change. Time to
start the second part, if that is made possible.
A student that likes t start with part 2 !
Danny

danny_mattheeusen — 2019-02-08 16:53:47 UTC

Evaluate & Compare !

danny_mattheeusen — 2019-02-08 16:54:28 UTC

Your BioArea is looking good!

elkoulouridi — 2019-02-09 15:43:21 UTC