Wim Dimmers
Technician
Education
Fontys Hogescholen Tilburg
1979-1985 Teaching degree second grade
*Teaching degree in biology
*Genetics: inheritance of color in sheep
Profile
- identification of marine invertebrates
- identification of insects/terrestrial entomofauna
- identification of soil (micro-) arthropods
- animal behaviour and ecological research on mammals
Current projects
- BoBI (BISQ). Biological Indicator for Soil Quality. BISQ is a biomonitoring project that has been started within the abiotic dutch Soil Quality Network. It consists 10 categories of land use and soiltype, each with 20 replica’s, resulting in 200 locations. The network has a cycle of 5 years, with 40 locations plus reference sites sampled and analysed each year. Contact: Drs T. Schouten RIVM. Commissioned by RIVM (National Institute of Public Health and the Enviroment. Project number: 5210435-01, running time: 2005-2009.
- BERISP, Breaking Ecotoxicological Restraints in Spatial Planning. BERISP aims at the development of new approaches to problems in spatial planning associated with soil contamination. North-Western Europe, with its high population density, faces increasing demands for open natural space. Many local authorities however, are currently confronted with problems regarding site development and soil pollution in for instance river floodplains and brownfields. The main objective of BERISP is the development of a Decision Support System (DSS), which will allow an iterative procedure in spatial planning processes, in which planner can review different types of landscape uses and habitat distribution against scientific knowledge on risks of pollutants for organisms.
Contact: Dr. N. van den Brink, Alterra. BERISP is funded by the European Community Initiative INTERREGIIIB. Project number 5231307-01, running time 2004-2007. http://www.berisp.org
Key publications
- Wingerden ,W.K.R.E. van & W.J. Dimmers, 1993. Effects of rabbit and cattle grazing on grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) of river dunes. Proc. Exper. & Appl. Entomol., N.E.V. Amsterdam, 4, 127-136.
- Wingerden, W.K.R.E. van, M. Nijssen, P.A. Slim, J. Burgers, G.J.A.M. Jagers op Akkerhuis, A.P. Noordam, G.F.P. Martakis, H. Esselink, W.J. Dimmers & R.J.M. van Kats, 2001. Evaluatie van zeven jaar runderbegrazing in duinvalleien op Vlieland. Alterra rapport-375 Wageningen. 102 pp.
- Jagers op Akkerhuis, G.A.J.M., W.J. Dimmers, R.J.M. van Kats, M. van der Hoef, C.P.H. Gaasenbeek, L.M. Schouls, I. van de Pol & F.H.M. Borgsteede, 2003. Observations on Lyme disease, tick abundance and the diversity of small mammals in different habitats in the Netherlands and implications for the ‘inflation’ and ‘dilution’effect aproaches. Proceedings of the NEV Amsterdam 2003.
- F. Borgsteede, C. Gaasenbeek, A. de Boer, J. Dijkstra, G. Jagers op Akkerhuis, W.J. Dimmers, P. Wielinga, M. Fonville, L. Schouls, I. van der Pol & J. van der Giessen, 2006. Het verloop van tekenpopulaties en de besmetting van teken met Borrelia en Ehrlichia, resultaten van onderzoek in de periode 2000-2005. Rapport: ASG 06/ll00015/mak. Animal Sciences Group WUR, Divisie Infectieziekten, Lelystad.
- Wolf, R.J.A.M., W.J. Dimmers, P.W.F.M. Hommel, G.J.A.M. Jagers op Akkerhuis, J.G. Vrielink & R.W. de Waal, 2006. Bekalken en toevoegen nutriënten. Evaluatie van de effekten op het bosecosysteem-een veldonderzoek naar vegatatie, humus en bodemfauna. Wageningen, Alterra, Alterra-rapport 1337.5. 42 pp.