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Seed rain: reproductive strategies during secondary succession in wet tropical
forest
MSc thesis
During secondary succession after land abandonment in the wet tropics the
vegetation recovers rapidly. Local forest recovery is determined by many factors
but availability of seeds is crucial. This is largely determi ...
Supervisor: Frans Bongers
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group
Reproductive strategies of tropical tree species
MSc thesis / MSc internship / BSc thesis / BSc internship
Tropical forests harbor a tremendous diversity of trees, which are able to coexist
because of differences in their life history strategies. Tree species are engaged in
a ...
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lourens Poorter
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group
Does shade tolerance explain the distribution of wet and dry tropical tree
species?
MSc thesis / MSc internship / BSc thesis / BSc internship
Species distribution is determined by environmental filters that can determine
what species can occur where. Shade and drought are thought to be the two
most important e ...
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lourens Poorter
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