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Improving forest ecosystems on acidic, degraded soils using tree species with rich litter
Improving forest ecosystems on acidic, degraded soils using tree species with rich litter. A multi-disciplinary study on litter effects and nutrient cycling. In order to preserve key species form forest ecosystems restoration ...
Supervisor: Philippine Vergeer (WUR) & Jan den Ouden (WUR)
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

Determining the functional redundancy of the pig gut pre- and post weaning
Piglets frequently suffer from diarrhea upon the abrupt switch from milk to solid feed, which is commonplace in the swine industry. The piglets experience stress and reduce their feed intake, impacting the gut microbiome and causi ...
Supervisor: Mike Loomans, Jasper Koehorst
Department: Systems and Synthetic Biology

Improving the quality of metagenome assemblies.
To reconstruct genomes from reads generated by sequencing methods, reads are assembled by assemblers into genomes by usually one of two methods. De Bruijn Graph and K-mer-based methods such as the SPAdes assembler are good at acco ...
Supervisor: Dr Jasper Koehorst; Mike Loomans
Department: Systems and Synthetic Biology

Disputed hydrosocial territories and flooding hazards in Guatemala: largescale mining, indigenous communities and citizen alliances
Host institute(s): Municipality of Quetzaltenango Country: Guatemala Period: open Project type: Master thesis for 1 or 2 students Problem context In the Palajunoj valley near Quetzaltenango city, Guatemala, three large grav ...
Supervisor: Prof. Rutgerd Boelens & Dr. Jeroen Vos
Department: Water Resources Management group

Insect behaviour: Behavioural adaptations against parasite spread in bumblebees. Laboratory based experimental work.
Bumblebees are primitively eusocial insects. They lack many of the sophisticated social defences against parasite spread that are thought to be key to the ecological success of highly eusocial insects, such as honey bees and ants. ...
Supervisor: Séverine Kotrschal
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Habitat preferences of the stonefly Taeniopteryx schoenemundi (Negendoornige wintersteenvlieg)
Description Taeniopteryx schoenemundi is a rare stonefly species in the Netherlands that disappeared in many parts of Europe the last century. Interestingly there are some recent recordings available (e.g. waarnemingen.nl) in Germ ...
Supervisor: Dorine Dekkers (dorine.dekkers@wur.nl)
Edwin Peeters (edwin.peeters@wur.nl)

Department: Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group

Mitigating N2O emissions from grasslands during extreme weather events using a plant trait-based approach
Intensively managed grasslands are an ecologically and economically important agroecosystem, and are more than half of all agricultural land. Due to nitrogen fertilization, they are also large sources of the potent greenhouse gas ...
Supervisor: Gerlinde De Deyn
Department: Soil Biology

Hostile ground or valuable land? Bog ownership and value according to the 1830 cadastral mapping
Raised bogs (hoogvenen) are peat moss-dominated wetlands consisting of organic soils, and once covered large parts of Northwest Europe and the Low Countries in particular. Most bogs have disappeared since the Middle Ages, leaving ...
Supervisor: Maurice Paulissen (GEO) and Roy van Beek (GEO/SGL), possibly Ron van Lammeren (GRS)
Department: Cultural Geography Group

Effects of soil slope stabilization treatments on soil erosion and plant recovery after wildfires.
Problem context Postfire restoration practices encompass those which aim to reduce negative wildfire impacts and to improve burned area rehabilitation. Mulching, Contour-felled log debris (CFD) and log erosion barriers (LEB) are ...
Supervisor: Jantiene Baartman
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

The Cinderella-effect: do stepparents have a negative effect on individuals? [comparative study]
In humans, the prevalence of abuse and violence among step-parents and their step-children is higher than that among that of biological parents and their children. In group-living birds, where individuals stay with their parents f ...
Supervisor: Sjouke A. Kingma
Department: Behavioural Ecology

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