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BSc-MSc Thesis and Internship Projects, Wageningen University

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Global tree trait data coverage
Trees are pivotal to global biodiversity, acting as ecosystem engineers and generating habitat to half the world’s known terrestrial flora and fauna. Accelerating global changes are threatening these tree species, where widespread ...
Supervisor: Coline Boonman
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

MSc thesis restoration ecology: reintroducing peatmoss to speed up peatland restoration
Peatlands in the Netherlands have become rare. All large reserves are currently incorporated into the Nature 2000 framework and are being managed to stimulate the return of ecosystem engineers: peatmoss. The problem is that ta ...
Supervisor: Juul.Limpens@wur.nl, Jose van Paassen
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Can buckwheat cultivation contribute to wild pollinator conservation?
Buckwheat is a crop of the old days, but is gaining more ground due to an increase of demand and the biodiversity benefits it has. It is flowering for 100 days, and very rich in nectar and pollen. In the current agricultural lands ...
Supervisor: Thijs Fijen
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Can stress-induced soil microbial communities aid reintroduction of a rare forest understory species by increasing plant performance and stress resistance?
We are looking for an enthusiastic MSc student interested to study the potential of microbial inoculation for plant reintroductions within her/his MSc thesis. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
Supervisor: Philippine Vergeer
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Soil sampling in Binnenveld wet meadows
In the Binnenveld wet meadows, north-west of Wageningen, a large-scale nature restoration project has taken place in the past years. Over a large area, the top layer of soil (15-50 cm) was removed in order to get rid of excessive ...
Supervisor: Monique Heijmans, Runa Magnusson
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

MSc thesis or internship: Salt marsh adaptive capacity to climate change: plant-sediment interactions in salt marshes
Salt marshes play an important role in coastal safety and harbor a unique biodiversity. One of the big questions is to what extent rising sea water levels and associated increases in flooding frequency will affect salt-marsh veget ...
Supervisor: dr. J. (Juul) Limpens and (depending on subtopic) dr. Marinka van Puijenbroek (Wageningen Marine Research), Jantsje van Loon-Steensma (WSG-WUR), Petra Goessen (HHNK)
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Kansen en knelpunten voor natuur in Zuid-Limburg (MSc thesis or internship)
In dit onderzoek breng je de kansen en knelpunten van een of meerdere natuurlijke gebieden in Zuid Limburg in kaart. Het doel is om op basis van dit werk tot beter natuurbeheer te komen waarbij nadrukkelijk wordt gekeken naar de s ...
Supervisor: Philippine Vergeer
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

BSc thesis: Do threatened butterflies share the same traits in different regions of Europe?
In 2017 we published a paper examining the relation between species traits and the Red List Status of European butterflies (DOI 10.1007/s10841-017-9972-4). This identified main trait components of species vulnerability at a contin ...
Supervisor: Prof. Michiel Wallis de Vries
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Plant responses to Climate Change: Adaptation to drought, changes in temperature and rainfall
It is important to predict how plants respond to changes in their environment, especially with todays unprecedented rate of climate change. Phenotypic responses to the environment may be determined not only by adaptive genetic ef ...
Supervisor: Dr Philippine Vergeer
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

MSc thesis: The role mass-migration of bumblebee queens for bumblebee population dynamics in agricultural landscapes
Bumblebees are enigmatic and important pollinators for wild plants and crops. However, their populations are declining due to landscape simplification and intensive agricultural practices. Surprisingly, some species seem to be abl ...
Supervisor: Thijs Fijen
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

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