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Project properties |
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| Title | Modeling competition between submerged and floating plants in ditches |
| Group | Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 24-39 |
| Supervisor(s) | Edwin THM Peeters |
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| Contact info | Edwin THM Peeters, room E.139 Lumen, edwin.peeters@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2015/01/01 |
| End date | 2017/12/31 |
| Description | Macrophytes are an important component of ditch ecosystems. Submerged macrophytes and floating plants compete for resources with submerged plants being better competitors for nutrients and floating plants better competitors for light. Ditches might be completely covered by submerged macrophytes, by floating macrophytes or by a combination of both, usually depending on the nutrient status. The focus will be to develop a model for the competition between these two groups using growth characteristics, climate conditions and information on nutrients that describes the yearly observed patterns in the field. |
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| Requirements | basic skills in modeling in Matlab |