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Project properties |
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| Title | Forest succession and restoration |
| Group | Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 27-39 |
| Supervisor(s) | Frans Bongers, Lourens Poorter, Marielos Peña-Claros, Madelon Lohbeck or Masha van de Sande |
| Examiner(s) | Prof. Dr. F.J.J.M (Frans) Bongers |
| Contact info | frans.bongers@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2019/01/07 |
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| Description | What? Secondary forests (SF) recover naturally after agricultural use. 25% of all tropical forests are SF.
Why? SF are ideal to study the ecology of succession. SF are important for biodiversity conservation, carbon and water cycling, and for human livelihoods. Application: 350 million ha of forest has to be restored Where? You can study dry and wet SF in Mexico & Brazil Topics: Resistance and resilience of SF to drought Role of mycorrhizae in succession Functional traits and community assembly of SF Seed rain and litter production Role of the landscape context in succession Is natural regeneration better than planting? |
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| Requirements | FEM-30306 Forest Ecology and Forest Management; REG-31806 Ecological Methods I |