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| Title | Linking landscape configuration to landscape functions in South Mexico |
| Group | Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36-39 |
| Supervisor(s) | FEM group: Madelon Lohbeck |
| Examiner(s) | Prof.Dr. F.J.J.M (Frans) Bongers |
| Contact info | madelon.lohbeck@wur.nl
http://www.wur.nl/en/Persons/Madelon-Lohbeck.htm |
| Begin date | 2017/02/08 |
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| Description | Thesis or internship
Linking landscape configuration to landscape functions in South Mexico. What is the role of forests? This project is part of the large interdisciplinary FOREFRONT research programme 'linking actor strategies, functional biodiversity and ecosystem services in agro-forest frontier landscapes' Will include fieldwork in Chiapas, Mexico. Measuring indicators of key functions (eg soil organic carbon, water quality, erosion resistance, biodiversity) across landscape configurations (eg across a gradient of forest cover, or distance from protected forest). Make use of extensive forest and tree-inventory data already available from the area, including functional traits data to statistically analyze the effects of forest quantity, quality and their spatial pattern on landscape functions. Start: flexible keywords: Biodiversity and functional diversity/ Population and forest dynamics/ Sustainable forest management/ Forest restoration and succession / Ecosystem services / Agroforestry/ America's/Tropical zone |
| Used skills | soil sampling, functional trait measurements, vegetation surveys, statistical analyses (regression, mixed models) |
| Requirements | FEM-30306 Forest Ecology and Forest Management; REG-31806 Ecological Methods I; FEM 22803 Agroforestry |