How can ecosystem services within river catchments be quantified in spatial and temporal explicit way?

While ecosystems have concrete benefits for human society, these benefits are typically overlooked in decision-making.

Science, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, W.T. de Groot, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

Do sustainability values play a role in motivating people to act for biodiversity in successful projects and in successful leadership action? And how could these values be incorporated in current economic valuation methods?

How can mega sand nourishments, such as the Sand Motor, be designed and managed for optimal ecosystem services provision ?

Thursday February 2nd, 2017 Prof. dr. Janne Bengtsson from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala has given a lecture called:

This research programme aims to increase the scientific understanding of how current and emerging anthropogenic threats affect biodiversity and ecosystem services to facilitate strategic management of natural resources. To this end, we address urgent challenges in relation to the mechanisms involved…

What is the optimal design of sandy solutions for sustainable climate change adaption, from an ecological, biophysical and societal point of view?

We depend on nature for so many things: from clean water, wood and food to carbon absorption, water purification and coastal protection, as well as for relaxation, inspiration and identity. Nevertheless, our modern world putting increasing pressure on these ecosystem services. Leiden researchers investigate…

What are trait-trait relationships in wetlands? To what extent the so-called leaf economics traits deviate from terrestrial ecosystems? How traits specific to wetland plant relate to plant strategies? What’s the relationship between wetland plant traits to the ecosystem functioning (e.g. productivity,…

Developing methodes to understand the evolution of patches in natural ecosystems

1: What is the relative importance of alfa and beta biodiversity in polar ecosystems, and how does intraspecific variation influence this? 2: How can we use remote sensing to determine functional biodiversity (within communities) in polar ecosystems? 3: Temporal and spatial scales of functional biodiversity:…

How are links between macro-invertebrate diversity and ecosystem functioning influenced by anthropogenic pressures?

To what extent does human intervention influence the world’s biodiversity? And can we predict how biodiversity and ecosystems will change in the coming years? Inaugural lecture by Peter van Bodegom, Professor of Conservation Biology, on 8 May.

This thesis describes the role of pollution, specifically neonicotinoid insecticides, as an actor of the ongoing biodiversity decline.

Do Ethiopian wolves change their diet and foraging strategy in the landscape under different land uses? How land use affect Afro-alpine rodent Communities? How important are Afro-alpine natural resources utilisation for local livelihoods? What is the human perception of conflict in the Afro-alpine a…

Vast, often populated, areas in dryland ecosystems face the dangers of desertification.

Promotores: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg & Dr. M.G. Vijver

The modification of risk factors and related health behaviors lies at the very core of adequate cardiovascular risk management, yet evidence shows that the majority of people with cardiovascular disease (CVD) fail to achieve a healthy lifestyle in the long term. The main objective of this project is…

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Double Bind. Public service professionals coping with contrasting demands. How do public service professionals align their PSM with contrasting demands set by the organizational and social contexts in which they work?

CML report 192

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Three-quarters of our alumni find a job in less than three months. Have you thought yet about what you’ll do once you’ve completed your master’s? At Leiden University we do our utmost to help you get your career off to a flying start.

If you are from abroad and you want to work at Leiden University, there is quite a lot to arrange. Our Service Centre International Staff (SCIS) ensures a warm welcome to international staff and provides practical support. From applying for a residence permit to finding a suitable place to live. From…

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The effects of anthropogenic noise on interactions between predators and their prey are still little understood.

Higher temperatures are resulting in changes to vegetation and soil in mountain areas throughout the world. An international research team including Leiden ecologist Ellen Cieraad published an article on 25 January in Nature on the disruption to the ecosystem.

1) Assess the trends in supply and production status of these critical minerals and mineral products worldwide and Europe’s dependence including on intermediate products such as permanent magnets, RE based super alloys, batteries, polishing compounds, phosphors, catalysts etc. 2) Trace the entire value…

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