Mapping and linking quinoa-based farming systems to landscape in the
Peruvian Altiplano
Information:
Intro
Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) was domesticated more than 7000 years
ago in the Andes and today farmers including indigenous Quechua and Aymara
communities are continuing cultivating this crop in the sam ...
Supervisor: Federico Andreotti
Erika Speelman
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
Practical period cow dung pats and insecticides
Cow dung pats on grassland are important for meadow birds and biodiversity: The tall grass surrounding dung pats offers good cover for meadow bird chicks against predation. Also, dung pats form a breeding ground for worms, flies a ...
Supervisor: Nyncke Hoekstra
n.hoekstra@louisbolk.nl
06-83248411
Louis Bolk Instituut
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
Multiscale modeling of the service bundle of a wetland socio-ecosystem
Ecosystems are objects which remain poorly understood and their related ecosystem services often show a great complexity. One reason of such uncomfortable situation is that ecosystems usually combine a high diversity of (biotic, a ...
Supervisor: Blair van Pelt
Co-supervisors: C. Gaucherel & I. Geijzendorffer
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
Modelling pixel cropping systems
Description:
Pixel cropping (or pixel farming) is a cutting-edge future farming system under development. It is the practice of growing multiple crop species in complex arrangements in which communities of plants are spatially al ...
Supervisor: Lenora Ditzler, Jochem Evers
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
Birds in strip cropping systems
This project investigates if strip cropping benefits field-breeding farmland birds. Strip cropping (https://weblog.wur.eu/spotlight/more-nature-in-fields-through-strip-cropping/) is an in-field diversification strategy where crops ...
Supervisor: Rik Waenink, Dirk van Apeldoorn
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
