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| Title | How do Brazilian Cerrado trees respond to droughts? |
| Group | Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | prof.dr. PA (Pieter) Zuidema
dr. Peter Groenendijk (University of Campinas, Brazil) |
| Examiner(s) | dr. JP (Peter) van der Sleen |
| Contact info | Pieter.zuidema@wur.nl
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| Begin date | 2024/09/01 |
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| Description | Increasing temperatures and drought stress may change the responses of tropical trees to climatic variability. In the dry woody vegetation of the Cerrado biome in Brazil, these effects are expected to be strong because rainfall is low and droughts are intense. Yet, little is known about these responses. You will sample increment cores in Cerrado vegetation in Brazil for one to several tree species, measure tree ring width and analyze growth patterns statistically. Fieldwork will be done in the state of Goias, Brazil; lab analysis at the University of Campinas within the research group of Peter Groenendijk.
Keywords to search by: Topic(s): Climate change effects / Tree ring analyses and wood anatomy Region(s): America's Climate(s): Tropical zone Corona proof: No |
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| Requirements | Standard for MSc thesis:
- WEC-31806 Ecological Methods I, or a comparable alternative course; - One FEM course (at least), depending on the topic of the thesis: FEM-30306 Forest Ecology and Forest Management, FEM-30806 Resource Dynamics Sustainable Utilization, FEM-32306 Agroforestry, or Models for Ecological Systems FEM-31806 |