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BSc-MSc Thesis and Internship Projects, Wageningen University

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How accurately can land cover metrics predict land use history?
Land use history is an important factor affecting the rates and dynamics of forest succession. Retrieving land use history information, however is often difficult and information can be incomplete. Landscape metrics, on the oth ...
Supervisor: Catarina Jakovac
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

Dynamics of dispersal mode in tree communities during forest restoration after mining
Within a conservation area in the southern Brazilian Amazon there has been large tin mining activity in the past. Since 10 years now, the areas impacted by mining are been restored and monitored annually for vegetation developm ...
Supervisor: Catarina Jakovac
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

Ecosystem Services and Economic Benefits Generated by Protected Areas: the Case of Het Loo Royal Estate, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands
MSc / BSc thesis (depending on size / depth of analysis) Forest estates have multiple values and provide a range of ecosystem services, but the business model is generally determined by economic (market) products such as timber ...
Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. Frits Mohren (FEM) / prof.dr. Lars Hein (ESA) / ir. Arno Willems (KHL)
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

Afforestation trial – Wool as fertilizer
We are looking for BSc / MSc thesis students to follow-up on the work summarized below. Research questions will be defined by the student under guidance of supervisory team. Field work on the experimental site in municipality of E ...
Supervisor: FEM group: dr. Maaike de Jong
Other organisation: Gemeente Ermelo & Dirk Jan van Dalfsen
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

Tree morphology changes by fertilization and herbivory
Research goal Rock dust, a ground rock that acts as a slow-release fertilizer, has become immensely popular in forest management. In ecosystems degraded by enhanced nitrogen deposition, soil health is expected to increase with th ...
Supervisor: dr.ir. J (Jan) den Ouden
S (Sylvana) Harmsen MSc

Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

Recovery of functional composition in secondary forests in the Atlantic forest using chronosequences
MSc thesis/MSc Internship Large-scale restoration in the Atlantic Forest region of Brazil needs novel upscaling from thousands to millions of hectares. The NewFor project is part of a large collaboration between Dutch and Braz ...
Supervisor: Rens Brouwer
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

Predicting functional traits (leaf and branch traits) using spectrometry in the Atlantic forest
MSc thesis / MSc internship / The linking of individual functional traits to ecosystem processes used extensively in ecology, however the measurement of individual trait values requires extensive measurements and is time consum ...
Supervisor: Rens Brouwer
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

Forest recovery in Australia
This MSc thesis focusses on the factors influencing early succession of abandoned pastural lands in Australia. Fieldwork is planned from mid-October to mid-December and includes vegetation measurements, analyzing soil samples ...
Supervisor: Lourens Poorter
Iris Hordijk

Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

Forest recovery in Mexico
This MSc thesis focusses on the factors influencing early succession of abandoned pastural lands in a dry and wet forest in Mexico. Fieldwork is planned in September, October and November and includes tree and seedling measur ...
Supervisor: Lourens Poorter
Iris Hordijk

Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

Tree ring analysis in the Netherlands: At which forest density do trees best withstand hot and dry conditions?
Forest density reductions are suggested to protect our forests from future dry and hot conditions. However, effectiveness of density reductions remains incongruent and not adequately tested. This is primarily due to the lack of ex ...
Supervisor: prof.dr.ir. FJ (Frank) Sterck, ACE (Eva) Meijers MSc, dr. M (Monique) Weemstra
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group

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