Wageningen UR BSc and MSc Project Database

BSc-MSc Thesis and Internship Projects, Wageningen University

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What determines egg size in birds?
Bird eggs are surprisingly different in colour, shape and size. Surprisingly, we do not know why. Using a dataset, augmented with data from handbooks of birds, we will try to find out! ...
Supervisor: Sjouke Anne Kingma
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Sexual selection in birds: what determines sexual dimorphism in colour, song and size?
Birds are highly variable in appearance and size and their song varies substantially. Tradionally this is seen as the result from selection on males to compete for females. Recently, sexual selection was invoked also to explain va ...
Supervisor: Sjouke Anne Kingma
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Nest-site selection and habitat preference of savanna birds
In this project, you will determine the habitat characteristics and niches of different species of birds. This can be expanded by determining characteristics of the environment like food availability and by incorporating how these ...
Supervisor: Sjouke A. Kingma

(in collaboration with other groups, for example PEN)
Department: Behavioural Ecology

The effect of preventive habitat burning and/or bush encroachment on behaviour and nest success of wild birds in Africa
Many African savanna regions undergo shrub encroachment, where open savanna grassland is taken over by dense shrubs. Prescribed fire can help in maintaining and restoring open savanna. While this is a commonly-used management tool ...
Supervisor: Sjouke A. Kingma

(in collaboration with other groups, for example PEN)

Department: Behavioural Ecology

Professional Internship Zoo - Rotterdam Blijdorp
With the goal of promoting to students a better understanding of the reality of life sciences professionals in institutions like an accredited zoo. We offer the possibility of an internship at Blijdorp Rotterdam Zoo. In this inter ...
Supervisor: Filipe Cunha

Department: Behavioural Ecology

The effect of early Testosterone on DNA methylation and great tit (Parus major) personality
Just like humans, great tits consistently differ in a set of correlated behavioural traits. These so called personality traits have a genetic basis, but are shaped by the environment. DNA Methylation is a chemical change of the DN ...
Supervisor: Bernice Sepers & Prof. dr. Kees van Oers (NIOO-KNAW)
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Sperm biology and evolution
General background Sperm are critical to successful fertilisation in sexually reproducing animals. The function of sperm – to find and fertilise ova – is universal throughout the animal kingdom, yet the sperm cell is the most mor ...
Supervisor: Dr. Melissah Rowe (NIOO-KNAW)
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Life history of birds: a comparative study on reproductive behaviours
Comparative studies allow broad-scale inferences about how certain traits or behaviours evolve. Using a data-base and data from handbooks, there is a great opportunity to look at, for example, what explains variation in egg size, ...
Supervisor: Sjouke Kingma
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Comparative study of avian behaviours and traits (BSc thesis)
Comparative studies allow broad-scale inferences about how certain traits or behaviours evolve. Using a data-base and data from handbooks, there is a great opportunity to look at, for example, what explains variation in egg size, ...
Supervisor: Sjouke Kingma
Department: Behavioural Ecology

Fieldstudy on birds in Africa: cooperation, family conflict, altruism and/or brood parasitism
Several MSc research projects are available in our ‘Social savanna’ research project. We study the behaviour and physiology of a range of different bird species (speckled mousebirds, arrow-marked babblers, white-crested helmet-shr ...
Supervisor: Sjouke Kingma, Kat Bebbington
Department: Behavioural Ecology

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