• researcher urban (landscape) ecology
   
  team Urban-Rural Interactions
  Landscape Centre,
  Alterra Wageningen UR
• Visitor address: 
  Droevendaalsesteeg 3 - building nr. 100 (Alterra)
  Wageningen - Netherlands
• Mail address:
  P.O. Box 47   6700 AA Wageningen
  Netherlands
   
  email: robbert.snep@wur.nl
  www.alterra.nl
  www.groenemetropolen.nl
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• Field-herpetologist in the city of Eindhoven since late 1980’s
• Co-initiator of the Foundation for Urban Nature in Eindhoven (1993)
• Graduated from his BSc. Education in Biology in 1997
• Started as researcher in landscape ecology at Alterra, Wageningen UR in 1998; worked on several urban ecological projects since 1998 (e.g. www.groenemetropolen.nl) 
• Graduated from his MSc. education in Landscape Ecology (Wageningen University) in 2002.
• Member of steering committee of Dutch Urban Ecology working group; moderator of online discussion group for urban ecologists
• Initiator of the European Network for Urban Landscape Ecology (ENULE) in 2003; by 2007 more than 60 international researchers on Urban Ecology participate in ENULE (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ENULE)
• Guest-speaker on Urban Ecology at Wageningen University, Technical University Eindhoven and Free University Amsterdam; invited speaker at several international congresses.
• Started a PhD-study at Wageningen University on the opportunities that business sites and port areas may provide for nature conservation; graduation aimed for 2008.
• Associate editor of the scientific journal Urban Ecosystems since 2007; since 2005 reviewer for manuscripts on Urban Ecology to be published in journals as Ecology, Landscape and Urban Planning and Urban Ecosystems.
• Initiator of Urban Ecology symposium, workshop and excursion (location: Amsterdam) at the World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE), July 2007, Ede, the Netherlands (www.iale2007.com)
• As Alterra-researcher cooperating with architects, project developers and designers in several urban development projects in which there is special attention for ecology (e.g. in DUO2 consortium, as partners of Baljon Landscape architects http://www.ppskempkensberg.nl/?page=show_news&news_id=28)

 

Publications
Snep, R.P.H., P.F.M. Opdam, J.M. Baveco, M.F. WallisDeVries, W. Timmermans, R.G.M. Kwak & V. Kuypers 2006. How peri-urban areas can strengthen animal populations in cities: a modeling approach. Biological Conservation 127: 345-355.

Snep, R.P.H. & F.G.W.A Ottburg (subm.) The 'habitat backbone' as a nature conservation strategy for industrial areas: Lessons from the natterjack toad (Bufo calamita) in the Port of Antwerp (Belgium), Landscape Ecology

Clergeau, P., J. Jokimäki & R. Snep 2006. Using hierarchical levels for urban ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21 (12): 660-661.

Snep, R.P.H., W. Timmermans & R.G.M. Kwak (in press). Applying landscape ecological principles to a fascinating landscape: the city. In: McDonnell, Breuste & Hahs (Eds.) ‘Ecology of Cities and Towns: A Comparative Approach’. Cambridge University Press.

Snep, R.P.H., W. Timmermans, V.H.M. Kuypers 2006. Natuur op bedrijventerreinen: fictie of toekomsbeeld?. Groen 62 (2): 6-10.

Snep, R.P.H., R.G.M. Kwak & H. Kramer 2005. The ecology of the urban landscape mapped: a pilot-study to the use of high-resolution satellite images for the description of urban nature and urban green [in Dutch]. Alterra-report 1108. Alterra, Wageningen UR.

Snep, R.P.H.; Timmermans, W.; Kwak, R.G.M. 2004. De toepassing van landschapsecologische principes op een fascinerend landschap: de stad. In: Bosbus; mobiel natuureservaat Matton, Prof ir T., Kuypers, Drs V.H.M., Timmermans, Drs W., . - Rotterdam : Episode Publishers, p. 18 - 28.

Snep, R.P.H., W. Timmermans & R.G.M. Kwak 2003. Spatial relation in animal urban ecology. Applying ecological principles to a fascinating landscape: the city. In: E. Tiezza, C.A. Brebbia & J.L. Usó (eds.), Ecosystems and sustainable development IV. (Proceedings ECOsud conference Siena). Southampton, WIT, 2003. Adv. ecol. Sci. 18, pp. 509-518.

Timmermans, W. & R.P.H. Snep 2003. Combining urban development and wildlife overpasses together in one multifunctional and multilevel building across highways. Innovative nature concepts in highly urbanized areas. In: E. Tiezza, C.A. Brebbia & J.L. Usó (eds.), Ecosystems and sustainable development IV. (Proceedings ECOSUD conference Siena). Southampton, WIT, 2003. Adv. ecol. Sci. 18, pp. 501-508.