Patterns in Biodiversity: Spatial organisation of biodiversity in the Netherland

A better understanding of biodiversity and its current threats is urgently needed, especially in the Netherlands where high population density, industrialisation, and intensive land-use have radically altered the natural landscape. Often, biodiversity research is seriously hampered by a lack of data. This is not so much a problem in the Netherlands, one of the most intensively inventoried countries of the world. Over the last decades, data on the occurrence of a broad range of species have become digitally available in the form of large geo-referenced databases that can be used for spatial ana... Mehr ...