Project properties |
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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) |