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| Title | Busy beaver capture carbon |
| Group | Soil Geography and Landscape |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Annegret Larsen & Slava Vasnev |
| Examiner(s) | Annegret Larsen & Slava Vasnev |
| Contact info | Annegret Larsen |
| Begin date | 2023/02/01 |
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| Description | Environmental scientists have proposed drawing carbon out of the air and burying it to reduce greenhouse gasses and the impact of climate change. Maybe we can take some tips from nature’s own eco-engineers – beavers – which have been sequestering carbon for thousands of years in the ponds and meadows created by their dams, before they were eradicated from most of European rivers and wetlands. This thesis will either use and/or expand upon existing datasets of present beaver meadow and ponds soil carbon, and drone aerial photography. Alternatively, you can investigate a beaver site in the Netherlands using drones, GIS, soil corings, and the quantification and characterization of soil carbon in the laboratory. The quantification of ecosystem services is not mandatory, but possible. Are beavers a nature-based-solution, or do they cause too much trouble in a heavily human-modified landscape like the Netherlands? Find it out! |
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