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What is the biomass of tropical rainforest trees?
Tropical forests store a quarter of all terrestrial biomass and play therefore an important role in the global carbon cycle. Much of the biomass in stored in giant emergent trees. Yet, estimations of carbon storage remain highly u ...
Supervisor: FEM group: , Lourens Poorter,
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Drought resistance of chestnut growing in Dutch forests
Also possible as MSc internship
Chestnut (Castanea sativa) is discussed as interesting species if it comes to making Dutch forest more resilient to climate change. By applying tree-ring research it becomes possible to check the ...
Supervisor: dr.ir. P (Paul) Copini dr. UGW (Ute) Sass-Klaassen
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis) - an interesting species for Dutch forests?
The Wild service tree (Torminalis glaberrima) is discussed as interesting species to be planted in Dutch forest, because it is known to be drought resistant. Yet, also other factors are relevant to select for this species to be in ...
Supervisor: dr.ir. P (Paul) Copini dr. U (Ute) Sass-Klaassen
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Understanding the potential of AI for the development of forestry carbon projects
Forestry carbon projects typically mitigate or prevent carbon emissions through activities such as reforestation, deforestation prevention, or improved forest management. These efforts generate carbon credits, also known as "carbo ...
Supervisor: External: Treevive’s CEO Liesbeth Gort: l.gort@treevive.earth
prof.dr. PA (Pieter) Zuidema
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Restoration of degraded lands in Africa
Thesi or internship
Restoration of degraded lands in Africa. What is the role of trees and their functional traits? In collaboration with the World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi Kenya (http://www.worldagroforestry.org/). You wil ...
Supervisor: FEM group: Madelon Lohbeck
World Agroforestry Centre: Leigh Winowiecki
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Understanding vegetation successions in a thawing tundra
Shrub expansion is widely observed in the Arctic and is related to climate warming. However, at our field site in Siberian tundra we observe local drowning of low shrub species Betula nana (dwarf birch). Permafrost thawing can tri ...
Supervisor: Dr. Ute Sass-Klaassen (FEM), Dr. Ir. Monique Heijmans (PEN), Rúna Magnússon
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Fire and drought resistance of Jamaica’s forests; a long-term perspective
Climate change and human disturbances over the last millennia have shaped tropical forests into how we see them today. A better understanding of how tropical forests responded to these pressures in the past may help us understand ...
Supervisor: FEM group: dr. MT (Masha) van der Sande
Other organisation: S. Yoshi Maezumi (University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica)
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Plant Conservation and Reforestation on Bonaire
On the Caribbean island of Bonaire the Yellow-shouldered Amazon Parrot (IUCN: Vulnerable) inhabits an equally endangered dry-forest. After felling nearly every tree, early European settlers introduced goats and donkeys. What remai ...
Supervisor: Bonaire: Lauren Schmaltz, Echo General Manager
FEM: Prof. Dr. P.A. (Pieter) Zuidema
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Plant diseases in intercropping system
Also possible as BSc thesis/ BSc internship/ MSc thesis/ MSc internship
This project aims to investigate how intercropping affects the incidence and severity of fungal and oomycete diseases in five different crops. The research ...
Supervisor: Margherita Berri
dr. Jasper van Ruijven
prof.dr.ir. Liesje Mommer
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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