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BSc-MSc Thesis and Internship Projects, Wageningen University

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MSc thesis or internship: Drainage impact on greenhouse gas emissions from boreal peatland forests in northern Sweden
About 1.5 million hectares of Swedish peatlands have been drained and afforested during the past century to increase forest biomass production. However, serious concern has been raised that these drained peatlands act as major gre ...
Supervisor: Matthias Peichl (SLU, Umea, Sweden), Juul Limpens (PEN, WUR)
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

MSc thesis or internship: resilience or constancy of peatland microtopography in response to climate
Peatlands play a key role in the global carbon cycle as they are sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide but can also be sources for greenhouse gas methane. To understand how peatland carbon fluxes will respond to climate change, it ...
Supervisor: Dr. dr. Juul Limpens (Juul.Limpens@wur.nl), Dr. Paul Mathijssen (paul.mathijssen@uni-muenster.de)
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

MSc thesis/internship in New Zealand: Can restoration of native agricultural landscape features help New Zealand's farmers and pollinators
Despite agricultural intensification, New Zealand crops are often visited by wild bee and non-bee pollinating species proven to provide pollination services. However, their abundances and distributions currently make them unreliab ...
Supervisor: Thijs Fijen (WUR), Brad Howlett (Plant & Food Research, Lincoln, New Zealand)
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Fraai hertshooi in De Meinweg - thesis of internship
Fraai Hersthooi (Hypericum pulchrum) is een zeldzame plantensoort van bosranden, bermen, struwelen, heide en heischraal. Fraai hertshooi is gebonden aan lemige bodem. In het nationaal park de Meinweg komt de soort voor, maar deze ...
Supervisor: Philippine Vergeer
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Ecological interactions and ecosystem multi-functionality: a long-term study in north Patagonian forests (Argentina)
This is a multidisciplinary project with the general objective to contribute scientific knowledge for achieving ecological, economical, and social sustainability in native forests and shrublands of North Patagonia. Keywords are ag ...
Supervisor: David Kleijn
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Thesis or internship: Optimising quality of Marsh Gentian to facilitate reintroduction of endangered Alcon Blue Butterfly
The Alcon blue butterfly has almost gone extinct in the Netherlands. There is urgent need to strengthen existing populations and perhaps reintroduce the butterfly to suitable new locations. One of the keys to success is to optimis ...
Supervisor: Prof. dr. Michiel Wallis de Vries (Butterfly foundation, PEN), Dr. Juul Limpens (PEN), Philippine.Vergeer@wur.nl (PEN)
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

MSc thesis: It's getting hot in here! - Does the sensitivity of permafrost to changing weather conditions differ across the Arctic?
Across the Arctic, researchers monitor the thawing depth of permafrost as a critical environmental variable. You will work with a database with end-of-season thaw depths, also known as "Active Layer Thicknesses". This is the top l ...
Supervisor: Rúna Magnússon MSc & Dr. Monique Heijmans
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Breeding for pollinators: how pollinator�s preferences are influenced by flower characteristics in a hybrid leek breeding program
Pollinating insects are important for obtaining high-quality yields of two-third of our crops. In hybrid seed crops, such as leek (Allium ampeloprasum porrum), pollinators are essential for transferring the pollen of the pollen pr ...
Supervisor: Thijs Fijen
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

MSc thesis or internship: Ecology and phenology of great tit population at Hoge Veluwe National Park
Ecology and phenology of great tit population at Hoge Veluwe National Park MSc thesis or internship at the Department of Animal Ecology, NIOO-KNAW Seasonal timing of reproduction has major fitness consequences. But global wa ...
Supervisor: dr. Maaike de Jong (PEN)
prof. dr. Marcel Visser (NIOO-KNAW, ABG)
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

MSc thesis or internship: Effects of changes in habitat on wild bird behaviour and fitness – an experimental study on great tits
Animals differ in how they acquire knowledge and understanding through thought, experience and the senses. Can habitat changes shape these differences? How may habitat variation influence behavioural performance in wild birds and ...
Supervisor: dr. Eva Serrano Davies (NIOO-KNAW)
prof. dr. Kees van Oers (BHE, NIOO-KNAW)
dr. Maaike de Jong (PEN)
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

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