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Functional fire resilience in Amazonian forests
Also possible as BSc thesis/ BSc internship/ MSc thesis/ MSc internship
Our project is about the resilience of Amazonian forests to fire. We try to understand this resilience based on functional traits, and work with these for ...
Supervisor: Dr. Masha van der Sande, David Pacuk (MSc)
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Restoration of mined areas in the Brazilian Amazon
Within a conservation area in the southern Brazilian Amazon there has been large tin mining activity in the past. Nowadays the areas impacted by mining are been restored and monitored annually for vegetation development and soil i ...
Supervisor: Catarina Jakovac
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Forest dynamics in oak- beech forest
The Netherlands contain a significant proportion of Atlantic beech forest ecosystems. On the Veluwe, a number of old forest complexes contain well-developed forest ecosystems of this type in late-successional communities. The comm ...
Supervisor: FEM group: dr.ir. J (Jan) den Ouden
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Nesting sites for the endemic and endangered Blue-throated Macaw
The Blue-throated Macaw (Ara glaucogularis) is an endemic and critically endangered parrot species inhabiting palm forest islands, located on elevated soils surrounded by natural grassland in the threatened Beni savanna ecoregion, ...
Supervisor: Lourens Poorter
Other organisation: Tjalle Boorsma (Asociación Civil Armonía)
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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The wonderful architecture of leaf veins and their role for plant hydraulics
Leaf veins provide not only structure to the leaves, but they are also the irrigation channels through which all water transport occurs. Plant species show an amazing variety in leaf vein architecture, which is not only esthetical ...
Supervisor: FEM group: Lourens Poorter & Frank Sterck
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Why is the tree species composition in the Amazon changing? A functional trait approach
Permanent sample plots in the Amazon show that there is a directional change in tree species composition. The question is who are the winners (increasing in abundance), who are the loosers (decreasing in abundance), and why? Is it ...
Supervisor: FEM group: Lourens Poorter
Other organisation: Dr Flavia Costa, INPA, Manaus, Brazil
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Linking landscape configuration to landscape functions in South Mexico
Thesis or internship
Linking landscape configuration to landscape functions in South Mexico. What is the role of forests?
This project is part of the large interdisciplinary FOREFRONT research programme 'linking actor strategi ...
Supervisor: FEM group: Madelon Lohbeck
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Origin matters! Drought susceptibility of commercial Douglas Fir provenances
Can also be done as internship (24-27ects)
Douglas fir is a relevant timber species in European forestry. It grows well and produces valuable timber. The challenge for foresters is to choose those Douglas fir provenances for pl ...
Supervisor: dr. UGW (Ute) Sass-Klaassen
Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands: Dr. P (Paul) Copini
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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