Een blik op zee: Biodiversiteit en bescherming van het mariene leven in het Belgisch deel van de Noordzee

The Belgian part of the North Sea is a small but unique part of theSouthern North Sea, as it is characterised by a high habitat diversity.Historically the combination of mobile sands, sandbanks and gravelbeds harboured rich and diverse communities, encompassing oysterbeds, a rich gravel bed fauna and fish communities that were abundantlypresent. The present situation is different, as the gravel and oysterhabitats have (almost) disappeared due to bottom trawling activities. Inaddition to bottom trawling, the marine ecosystem of the Belgian partof the North Sea has been exposed to a multitude of... Mehr ...