Mr. Robbert Snep
Researcher Urban (Landscape) Ecology at Landscape Centre, Alterra
Alterra, Green World Research
Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR)
Netherlands

Biography
Robbert Snep is researcher on urban ecology at the Landscape Centre of Alterra, Netherlands. In 1997, he finished his B.Sc.-Biology-education with a telemetric landscape study on the European tree frog at the Alterra-Department of Landscape Ecology (led by Prof.Dr. Paul Opdam). In 1998, he started at that same Department as Assistant Scientist, where he worked on landscape ecological projects for several years. Besides this research he followed a Biology-education at Wageningen University, where he graduated in 2002 on the topic of urban landscape ecology. In the same year he accepted a job as researcher in this discipline.

As research scientist/project leader he was involved in applied and multi-disciplinary research, consultancy and acquisition for various projects in the specific fields of urban ecology, habitat fragmentation and infrastructure. He's especially experienced with ecological impact assessments in urban areas and mitigation/compensation studies for large-scale railroad infrastructure. He's also qualified in studies on nature development, ecological nature- and water management and animal ecology (herpetology). In 2001, he was the initiator of the ULE-internet discussion group (Urban Landscape Ecology), which currently contains more than 150 scientists worldwide. In the recent past he was also involved in some European urban research projects. All together it provided him a broad international network in urban ecology and herpetology.

Selected Publications
Timmermans, W. & R.P.H. Snep: Ecological models and urban wildlife. In: Y. Villacampa, C.A. Brebbia & J.L. Usó (eds.), Ecosystems and sustainable development III. (Proceedings ECOsud conference). Southampton, WIT, 2001. Adv. ecol. Sci. 10, pp. 205-216.

Snep, R.P.H., R.G.M.Kwak, H.Timmermans & W.Timmermans 2001 (Dutch). Landschaps-ecologische analyse van het Rotterdamse havengebied. LARCH-scenariostudie naar natuurpotenties van braakliggende terreinen en leidingstroken. [Landscape ecological analysis in the Port of Rotterdam: LARCH-scenariostudies on the potential for nature of derelict land and industrial verges] Alterra-report 231.

Snep, R.P.H., P.F.M. Opdam, J.M. Baveco, M. Wallis de Vries & W.Timmermans 2002). Stadsranden als bron voor natuurkwaliteit in de stad. Het voorbeeld van de Rotterdamse deelgemeente Hoogvliet (in Dutch). [Peri-urban areas as source for nature quality in cities, the Rotterdam Hoogvliet case-study]. Alterra, Green World Research, Wageningen. Alterra-report 620.

Snep, R.P.H., P.F.M. Opdam & R. Kwak 2000 (Dutch). Duurzaam functioneren van populatienetwerken in de stad. [Biodiversity on urban areas: the role of sustainable functioning of networks]. De Levende Natuur, november 2000.

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