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What determines egg size in birds?
Bird eggs are surprisingly different in colour, shape and size. Surprisingly, we do not know why. Using a dataset, augmented with data from handbooks of birds, we will try to find out! ...
Supervisor: Sjouke Anne Kingma
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Sexual selection in birds: what determines sexual dimorphism in colour, song and size?
Birds are highly variable in appearance and size and their song varies substantially. Tradionally this is seen as the result from selection on males to compete for females. Recently, sexual selection was invoked also to explain va ...
Supervisor: Sjouke Anne Kingma
Department: Behavioural Ecology
 
Evolution of PEPR signaling
Plant immunity functions in recognition of conserved molecular patterns or signals associated with various pathogens, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and pests. Once these signals are recognized signaling cascade within the ce ...
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Grones (CDB), Dr. Klaas Bouwmeester (Biosystematics)
Department: Cell Biology
 
Optimizing Indirect Calorimetry Data Analysis and Presentation with R
Research at the Human and Animal Physiology (HAP) group at Wageningen University is focused on energy metabolism. A compromised energy metabolism is a central component of diet- and age-related diseases. At HAP, we use in most of  ...
Supervisor: Evert van Schothorst (HAP), Jo-lene de Deugd (HAP), Edoardo Saccenti (SSB)
Department: Systems and Synthetic Biology
 
A review of biodiversity metrics
Researchers go to the field and gather lots of information, repeatedly over space and time. Species names, species abundances, maybe even trait data are collected. But what can be done with this enormous amount of data? Spatial pa ...
Supervisor: Coline Boonman and José van Paassen
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group
 
The use of soil amendments to reduce cadmium availability and uptake in cacao.
Cacao production in South America is strongly promoted and linked to important environmental and rural development goals. However, important market-related challenges include new EU food safety regulation setting limits to cadmium ...
Supervisor: Mirjam Pulleman, Bert Jan Groenenberg
Department: Soil Biology
 
Kansen en bedreigingen voor de houting
Inleiding en probleemstelling De houting of Noordzeehouting (Coregonus oxyrinchus) is een anadrome vissoort, die echter ook standpopulaties kent. De soort leeft in scholen in het pelagiaal. In het najaar trekt de vis over een ko ...
Supervisor: Willie van Emmerik (Sportvisserij Nederland)
Edwin Peeters (AEW-WU)

Department: Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group
 
Seed longevity in lettuce
Background: Seed storage is essential for the conservation of biodiversity in ecological settings (soil seed bank) as well as in storage facilities for crop production. The latter is extremely relevant for the Dutch plant breeding ...
Supervisor: Leo Willems and Dr Leonie Bentsink
Department: Plant Physiology, Laboratory of
 
Palm regeneration in Bolivia
Also possible as MSc internship In the Barba Azul Nature Reserve, the critically endangered blue-throated macaw depends on the Motacú palm for its survival. Motacú palm populations are however declining due to cattle ranchin ...
Supervisor: Iris Hordijk
Peter van der Sleen

Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group
 
Microplastic detection in soils using spectroscopy and chemometrics
Project Description Microplastics are emerging pollutants that pose an environmental threat. New questions are arising about their impact in aquatic and continental environments. However, research has been jeopardized by the lack ...
Supervisor: Violette Geissen en Esperanza Huerta Lwanga
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group
 
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