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Quantifying the effect of pruning on cocoa (Theobroma cacao) architecture in Ivory Coast
Cocoa (or cacao) is the most important export crop in west African countries: Ivory Coast and Ghana produce 70% of the world production, mostly by smallholder farmers.
Realized yield however falls way below the potential value c ...
Supervisor: A (Ambra) Tosto MSc; Prof. Dr. P.A. (Pieter) Zuidema; Dr. J.B. (Jochem) Evers
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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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 |
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How did the megafaunal collapse in South America affect tree species composition?
Also possible as Internship
At the end of the Pleistocene, around 12,000 y ago, many large animal species went extinct in South America. Although the causes of this big extinction event remain debated, it likely had great cons ...
Supervisor: FEM group: dr. MT (Masha) van der Sande
Other organisation: dr. Marco Raczka (University of Reading, UK)
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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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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