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Title Soil carbon and historic river management
Group Soil Geography and Landscape
Project type thesis
Credits 36
Supervisor(s) Annegret Larsen, Roy van Beek
Examiner(s) Annegret Larsen, Roy van Beek
Contact info Annegret Larsen
Begin date 2023/02/01
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Description Increasing carbon storage in soils has been argued to be one pathway to fight climate change. However, humans have changed landscapes for thousands of years and have modified streams and floodplains. These modifications have led to a change in soil carbon storage, but it remains unclear how, why, and how much this has changed and hence it remains unclear what the natural maximum C storage in those soils is. In this project, you work with existing datasets to quantify the changes humans have made by historic engineering rivers and floodplains. If wanted, you can also focus on the investigation of a historically engineered small river floodplain close to Wageningen, including the analysis of historic maps, soil corings, and quantification and characterization of soil carbon in the laboratory.
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