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Paddy rice: a climate-smart solution to drowning agricultural land in the Netherlands?
Increasing global temperatures is a challenge for agriculture, but sometimes also opens doors for new opportunities. Paddy rice is a crop not traditionally found in northern Europe, but could play an important role in future lands ...
Supervisor: Julian Helfenstein
Department: Soil Geography and Landscape

Sharp river bends: opportunities for successful river restoration?
Over the last years, many streams in The Netherlands have been re-meandered with the main aim to restore the riverine ecosystem as well as water quality. However, re-meandering of the river channel is a very costly measure, and ha ...
Supervisor: Jasper Candel (Soil, Geography and Landscape), Edwin Peeters (Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management)
Department: Soil Geography and Landscape

A soil-landscape modelling approach for understanding seasonal trends and anomalies in vegetation activity
In this MSc thesis project, you aim to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the ecosystem drivers in relation to observed trends in vegetation activity over large extents, while taking into account local-scale variability ...
Supervisor: Titia Mulder
Department: Soil Geography and Landscape

Mapping multiple soil properties using state-of-the-art machine learning
A sub-discipline of soil science, Digital Soil Mapping (DSM), consists in producing computer-assisted soil maps by the use of statistical methods. This relies on the large availability of spatial data, computer power and GIS tools ...
Supervisor: Gerard Heuvelink
Department: Soil Geography and Landscape

Analysis of relationships between soil and landscape properties at different measurement scales
The soil and landscape are characterized by numerous properties, many of which influence each other. For example, we know that erosion rate depends on slope angle, soil type and vegetation cover and we know that the nitrate concen ...
Supervisor: G.B.M. Heuvelink, J.J. Stoorvogel
Department: Soil Geography and Landscape

Busy beaver capture carbon
Environmental scientists have proposed drawing carbon out of the air and burying it to reduce greenhouse gasses and the impact of climate change. Maybe we can take some tips from natureâ€™s own eco-engineers â€“ beavers â€“ which ...
Supervisor: Annegret Larsen & Slava Vasnev
Department: Soil Geography and Landscape

Ecosystem engineering as nature-based solution
Summer droughts have increased both in intensity and duration over the last decades across most of Europe, including the Netherlands. It is predicted that this trend will continue under current climate change scenarios, leading to ...
Supervisor: Annegret Larsen
Department: Soil Geography and Landscape

Holocene evolution of rivers
Why do rivers develop certain river patterns? Why do some rivers meander, while others braid, anastomose or are laterally stable? Knowledge of why these river patterns form is very limited, while such knowledge is vital for long-t ...
Supervisor: Jasper Candel; Bart Makaske; Jakob Wallinga
Department: Soil Geography and Landscape

The role of knowledge and interests in Dutch river restoration decision-making and evaluation
Over the past centuries, streams in many parts of the world were channelized and straightened, resulting in rapid drainage of catchments. In recent decades, it has been increasingly realized that stream channelization has consider ...
Supervisor: Jasper Candel, Jakob Wallinga, Jeroen Candel, Katrien Vermeer
Department: Soil Geography and Landscape

Mapping plant-available water holding capacity of the soil of sub-Saharan Africa to support crop production
In rainfed crop production, the root zone plant-available water holding capacity of the soil has a large influence on crop growth and yield response to management inputs, such as improved seeds and fertilisers. However, maps of th ...
Supervisor: G.B.M. Heuvelink
J.G.B. Leenaars (ISRIC - World Soil Information)
Department: Soil Geography and Landscape

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