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Can logged tropical forests be good for climate? Estimating
the effect of selective logging on forest carbon worldwide
MSc thesis
Exploitation and use of tropical timber from natural forests
may lead to net carbon sequestration in forest and products,
and thus contribute to climate change mitigation. Within this
product chain from forest to co ...
Supervisor: FEM group: Pieter Zuidema
External: Federico Alice Guier, National University of Costa
Rica
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group
What do ontogenetic changes in wood density tell us
about species’ functional strategy?
MSc thesis / MSc internship
A tree experiences strongly changing pressures during its
lifetime. For example, protection from herbivores and other
physical damage may be more important in early life
stages, whereas support is i ...
Supervisor: Masha van der Sande
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group
Nutrient balances in tropical trees
MSc thesis / MSc internship
Trees compete for the acquisition of nutrients. Nutrients
such as nitrogen and phosphorus are crucial for plant
growth and survival. Species can have different strategies
to deal with (limiting) nut ...
Supervisor: Masha van der Sande
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group
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
