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| Title | Effects of climatic variability on tropical tree populations.
How to scale up from tree growth to population viability? |
| Group | Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 33-39 |
| Supervisor(s) | Pieter Zuidema & Peter van der Sleen |
| Examiner(s) | FEM staff member |
| Contact info | pieter.zuidema@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2020/05/01 |
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| Description | MSc thesis
Tree-ring analyses of tropical tree species have shown that years with low rainfall and high temperatures reduce stem growth and may also increase mortality. Climate change will likely increase the frequency and severity of such years and thus affect tree populations. Yet, we have very little information on how growth variation of individual trees leads to variation or changes in population growth. You will use information on the climate sensitivity of tropical tree growth of some Bolivian species (obtained from treering analysis) and combine this with data on survival and reproduction (from permanent plots) to conduct demographic analyses that allow to evaluate the effects of varying tree growth on the viability of populations. Corona proof: i.e.no field work (abroad) or intensive lab studies required Climate change effects / Population and forest dynamics/ America's/ Tropical zone/ Desk study |
| Used skills | Statistical skills, image analysis |
| Requirements | Recommended:
FEM-30806 Resource Dynamics and Sustainable Utilization FEM-30306 Forest Ecology and Forest Management and REG-31806 Ecological Methods I |