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| Title | Drought resistance in Brazilian Cerrado Trees: An assessment of embolism tolerance |
| 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 |
| Begin date | 2025/01/20 |
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| Description | Xylem vulnerability to embolism represents an important trait to determine species
distribution patterns and drought resistance. The disruption in water transport reduces the plant's capacity to function properly and can lead to increased risk of mortality. Plants in the dry, woody vegetation of Brazil's Cerrado must possess mechanisms that enable them to thrive in such harsh conditions. You will be using the new Pneumatron, a cutting-edge methodology capable of generating eight vulnerability curves simultaneously, to assess these adaptations. 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 |