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Degradation of lignin in Miscanthus using fungi to make it a good ruminant feed
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, A.F. van Peer
Department: Animal Nutrition Group

Unravelling genetic networks that control tiller and spike development in barley
Cereals such as barley and wheat are important crop species for food and feed supply. Cereal crop yield depends on traits such as the number of seeds per spike, the number side shoots (tillers) and the seed weight. These traits ar ...
Supervisor: Wilma van Esse
Department: Molecular Biology, Laboratory of

Studying the effect of land use intensity and land use changes on functional diversity of soil biota
Soil biota play a crucial role in the provision of ecosystem functions. A promising way to link the abundance of soil biota to these functions is by studying their functional diversity. Functional diversity describes the range of ...
Supervisor: Doina Mani (SGL & SBL), Carmen Vazquez Martin (SBL)
Department: Soil Biology

Big fish eat little fish: modelling changes in the structure of ecosystem food webs
Ecological communities are constantly being reshaped due to fast environmental changes and strong anthropogenic pressures. Yet, we do not know how food webs will restructure, limiting the capacity of prediction at the basis of sci ...
Supervisor: Romain Frelat
Department: Mathematical and Statistical Methods Group

Studying behavior of aquatic macroinvertebrates using video cameras
Behavior of animals in influenced by many different factors. Besides various chemicals, all kinds of ecological factors play a role. For example, the presence of a place to shelter will influence the behavioral pattern as well as ...
Supervisor: Edwin Peeters & Ivo Roessink
Department: Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group

Effects of Spatial Constraints in Cell and Development of Plant Cells
The moss Physcomitrium patens is a plant model excellent for the study of cell division and polarity due to its reduced size and easy observation under the microscope. Its life cycle consists in two main growth fashions: a 2D fila ...
Supervisor: Jordi Floriach-Clark, Viola Villemsen
Department: Cell Biology

Water balance, soil moisture distribution and crop water status under drip irrigation.
Country: The Netherlands Host institute: WUR & Royal Eijkelkamp Begin date: First quarter 2021 End date: Third quarter 2021 Problem context In recent years the Netherlands had a serious rainfall deficit during the summer a ...
Supervisor: Angel de Miguel Garcia, Gerlo Borghuis
Department: Water Resources Management group

Food forest in development (thesis or internship)
On a site near Winterswijk (in the East of the Netherlands), we will develop a food forest (7000m2) and an organic small fruit harvest garden (5000 m2). This will offer a unique chance to do a baseline measurement as nothing has ...
Supervisor: Kees van Veluw
Department: Farming Systems Ecology

Active and passive anti-predator defence in a cooperatively breeding bird
Group-living can have many benefits, such as better protection from predators. White helmetshrikes, for example, actively mob and attack predators in nest vicinity to protect their brood. Larger groups might thus be better able to ...
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Sjouke A. Kingma
Kat L. Bebbington

Department: Behavioural Ecology

Mitigation of nitrogen emissions from peat grassland by using Plantago lanceolata?
Introduction (thesis or internship) Peat soils are very rich in organic matter through accumulation of plant residues over centuries. Areas with peat soils are nowadays drained in order to produce grass for milk production. Howev ...
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jan Willem van Groenigen (WUR)
MSc. Jeroen Pijlman (Louis Bolk Institute)
Dr. Ir. Nick van Eekeren (Louis Bolk Institute)
Department: Soil Biology

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