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Can reeds be a good ruminant feed after a fungal treatment
Biomass is abundantly available, but normally not used to feed ruminants. The main limitation to feed agricultural by-products and waste is the high content of lignin in the cell walls. When lignin is degraded, the cellulose and h ...
Supervisor: J.W. Cone
Department: Animal Nutrition Group

Animal cognition: Social effects on cognitive performance. Laboratory based experimental work.
Living in a group can be beneficial as it allows for social learning to facilitate life. Increased competition for food sources and access to mates however can also result in stress, which can negatively affect cognitive performan ...
Supervisor: Alexander Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Animal cognition: Testing optimism in fish- a potential welfare project in fish. Laboratory based experimental work.
To assess a person’s level of optimism you may ask whether a glass is half full or half empty. We can ask fish a similar question, by training them to associate either the colour black or white with a food reward and then measure ...
Supervisor: Alexander Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Soil texture determination: comparison of different methods
The classical soil texture determination is done by sieving and sedimentation analysis. As a large part of the scientific literature in which soil texture is related to soil functioning is based on soil texture as measured with th ...
Supervisor: Loes van Schaik
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

Tree community assembly along topographic gradients in the Amazon. Linking species traits with forest plots and species distribution
Tropical rainforests in the Amazon are characterized by a steep topography. Crests , slopes and valley bottoms differ markedly in water availability, nutrient availability, and species composition. The questions is what traits all ...
Supervisor: FEM group: Lourens Poorter
Other organisation: Dr Flavia Costa, INPA, Manaus, Brazil

Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

Restoring flowering landscapes to bring back extinct bee species
About half of the 357 wild Dutch bee species are red-listed. Because bees are mobile organisms conservation management needs to target landscapes rather than fields or reserves. In the Geuldal, between Valkenburg and Gulpen, we ai ...
Supervisor: David Kleijn and Jeroen Scheper
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Herintroductie van Oud Bossoorten (thesis of internship)
De Brabantse bossen zijn relatief jong (<100 jr) en liggen op voedselarme dekzandruggen, veelal voormalige heiden. Een rijke bodem ontbreekt vaak, alsmede boomsoorten die rijk strooisel vormen. Door verzuring en verarming zijn vee ...
Supervisor: Philippine Vergeer (Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation)
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Greylag Goose: ontogeny of social behaviour in goslings
In 2024, we will hand-raise goslings and you will have opportunity to observe goslings at very close distance. Using focal sample techniques with our GooseGander app, you will score the behavioural interactions of each gosling acr ...
Supervisor: Alexander Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Greylag Goose: ontogeny of vocalisations
The calls of goslings will be recorded every day/week to measure the ontogeny of calls including social context and cues to individuality in call characteristics. You will learn how to record, label, and archive calls and analyse ...
Supervisor: Alexander Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

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