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Project properties |
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| Title | Optimal harvesting duckweed: a modeling approach |
| Group | Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 24-39 |
| Supervisor(s) | Edwin THM Peeters |
| Examiner(s) | Edwin THM Peeters |
| Contact info | Edwin THM Peeters, room 1.114 Lumen, edwin.peeters@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2021/02/01 |
| End date | 2022/12/31 |
| Description | Dense layers of duckweed are frequently observed in ditches. Due to this dense layer exchange of oxygen between air and water is blocked, resulting in anoxic conditions in those ditches with all negative consequence for life. Removal of duckweed might be a good measure to keep the oxygen condition at a minimum required level. How frequent must the removal be applied to obtain this situation? A preliminary version of a duckweed growth model is available, and this model can be used to evaluate the effects of removal on duckweed growth and to determine an optimal removal strategy. |
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| Requirements | basic skills in modeling in Matlab |