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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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