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How do liana functional traits shape liana niches?
Lianas are important component of forest ecosystems, compete with trees, and have a large negative impact on tree diversity and performance, and carbon storage sequestration of the forest.
However, little is known about how liana ...
Supervisor: FEM group: Prof.Dr.Ir. L (Lourens) Poorter OR Dr.Ir. FJ (Frank) Sterck
Other organisation: Yajun Chen and Jiaolin Zhang (Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Forest succession and restoration
What? Secondary forests (SF) recover naturally after agricultural use. 25% of all tropical forests are SF.
Why? SF are ideal to study the ecology of succession. SF are important for biodiversity conservation, carbon and water cy ...
Supervisor: Frans Bongers, Lourens Poorter, Marielos Peña-Claros, Madelon Lohbeck or Masha van de Sande
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Agroforestry thesis or internship projects
Also internships available.
Possible topics include:
Food forests in the Netherlands
Tropical agroforestry in Latin America (Brazil, Mexico)
Agroforestry for restoring degraded agricultural landscapes in Africa & the middl ...
Supervisor: Frans Bongers, Madelon Lohbeck or Pieter Zuidema
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Tropical forest management - thesis and internship topics
Thesis and internship topics available on tropical forest management.
Some possibilities:
Logging effect on forest dynamics and forest productivity
Provision of ecosystem services of managed forests
Forest soils and logging ...
Supervisor: Marielos Peña-Claros and/or Pieter Zuidema
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Wood as database
Tracking illegal timber: Tracking the origin of wood via DNA and isotopes
Tropical forests and CO2 increase: CO2 fertilisation effects on tropical forests, information from wood anatomy & chemistry to feed tree models
And ot ...
Supervisor: Pieter Zuidema and/or Ute Sass-Klaassen and/or Frank Sterck
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Understanding fire resilience of Chiquitano dry forests in Bolivia
Also possible as MSc Internship
Over the last years, the fires in the Amazon have reached global headlines. Although most media attention has focused on Brazil, the rate of deforestation and fire-affected areas have increased ...
Supervisor: FEM group: dr. MT (Masha) van der Sande
Other organisation: Geovana Carreño (Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Bolivia)
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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Detecting effects of CO2 rise on the drivers of tropical tree growth
MSc thesis
Atmospheric CO2 rise increases photosynthesis and decreases water loss of
trees, but it may also increase leaf temperatures beyond optimum for
photosynthesis. Generally, CO2 rise is thought to increase tree growth, ...
Supervisor: Pieter Zuidema, Sophie Zwartsenberg
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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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 |
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