Project properties

Title Forest recovery in Mexico
Group Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group
Project type thesis
Credits 36
Supervisor(s) Lourens Poorter
Iris Hordijk
Examiner(s) prof. dr. L (Lourens) Poorter
Contact info iris.hordijk@wur.nl
Begin date 2025/02/01
End date
Description This MSc thesis focusses on the factors influencing early succession of abandoned pastural lands in a dry and wet forest in Mexico.

Fieldwork is planned in September, October and November and includes tree and seedling measurements, vegetation transects and soil samples.

Requirements are a driving license and the willingness to perform fieldwork, learn Spanish and digitalize data.

This thesis is part of the PANTROP project: https://pantrop-eu.com/ The aim of the PANTROP project is to advance our understanding how human-driven climate change, landscape degradation, and biodiversity loss affect forest recovery.

[Biodiversity and functional diversity/Population and forest dynamics/ Forest restoration and succession, America’s, Tropical zone]

Used skills
Requirements - WEC-31806 Ecological Methods I (or any comparable course)
- FEM-30306 Forest Ecology and Forest Management (recommended)