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The research at NIOO-KNAW aims at understanding how the biosphere functions, how this changes through human impact and what the likely responses are.
Living organisms change in response to their changing environment. Alternatively, living organisms themselves change the physics, the chemistry and the geology of the planet. The basic mission of ecology and also of the NIOO is to understand these interactions between organisms and their changing environment.
The research at NIOO more specifically aims at elucidating adaptation of individual organisms, variation within populations, interactions between species, interactions between biotic and abiotic components and between ecological processes and biogeochemical cycles in ecosystems.
Although research at NIOO can be characterised as basic research on ecological processes, it is increasingly embedded within an applied context, since, especially in the Netherlands, it is hardly possible to avoid the human factor.
For further information see http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/CEME/index.htm and http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/CEME/ES/Index.htm.
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