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Title | Submerged aquatic macrophytes and climate change |
Group | Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group |
Project type | thesis |
Credits | 24-36 |
Supervisor(s) | dr Edwin THM Peeters |
Examiner(s) | Prof dr M Scheffer |
Contact info | edwin.peeters@wur.nl |
Begin date | 2013/04/15 |
End date | 2014/04/15 |
Description | Climate is changing with milder and wetter winters and warmer and dryer summers in the temperate region. Changes in climate resulted in changes in phenology of terrestrial plants like leaf bud burst or flowering. Also lengthening of growing season is observed. For aquatic macrophytes this is less well studied. A recent study showed that timing of dominance of duckweed is indeed related to weather conditions.
A database with records of aquatic macrophytes in ditches from 1980s on is available that can be analysed to find patterns of plant species in relation to climate conditions. |
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