How presence, abundance and enzymatic activities of AM and EM fungi differently affect soil carbon sequestration processes?

This thesis focuses on amyloid proteins, a class of proteins that convert into amyloid fibrils.

What are the behaviours of plant traits throughout various points in the growing season in a radiative transfer model framework and how well can this knowledge be integrated through data assimilation to provide priors for robust local and global vegetation products and analysis?

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,…

Promotor: E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: J. Geml

Promotor: E.F. Smets Co-promotor: J. Geml

What are the global relationships between environmental conditions and abundance of distinct types of mycorrhizal fungi in soil and plant roots?

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:…

Promotor: Prof.dr. W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg

Promotores: W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg, G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: M.G. Vijver

Promotor: W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: A. Hawe

Bacterial biocatalysis constitutes a sustainable alternative for high-value chemicals production by enabling the utilization of renewable feedstocks.

De afdeling Environmental Biology (CML-EB) houdt zich bezig met vraagstukken rondom biodiversiteit en natuurlijke hulpbronnen op het platteland in westerse en niet-westerse gebieden.

In this thesis,

Solar energy is used by photosynthetic organisms to drive energy required cellular processes. Is absorbed by two groups of pigments, located in the LHCs.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets. Co-promotores: B. Gravendeel, F. Pupulin

Anthropogenic noise negatively affects wildlife in a wide range of taxonomic groups.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

Promotie

Vinasse is a major by-product generated by the sugarcane biofuel industry. It is a source of microbes, nutrients and organic matter and often it is recycled as fertilizer.

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

Development of an aggregated impact indicator to measure decoupling.

Hoe kunnen we onze maatschappij zo inrichten dat de wereld leefbaar blijft voor onszelf en al het andere leven om ons heen? Aan dat vraagstuk werken Leidse wetenschappers samen vanuit allerlei disciplines, van biologie tot datawetenschap en van milieueconomie tot archeologie.

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

Aim: To develop and enable application of a practical, flexible, user-friendly platform to provide the scientific community with a tool to generate land surface products and its associated uncertainties and exploit these for data-intensive science.

Wessel Kraaij is per 1 maart 2016 benoemd als hoogleraar ‘Applied Data Analytics’. Kraaij gaat grote datasets analyseren met nieuwe methoden. Met data van partijen uit verschillende data-intensieve onderzoeksdomeinen wil hij de methoden ook toetsen in de praktijk.

Professor dr. C. van den Hondel is gisteren benoemd tot Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau voor zijn grote rol in het Nederlandse Moleculair Genetisch onderzoek naar schimmels.

Promotie

Tijdens de nieuwjaarsreceptie op 5 januari is bekend gemaakt wie de Ontdekker van het jaar 2008 is geworden, wie de Onderwijsprijs heeft gewonnen en is door de decaan de nieuwe facultaire website gelanceerd.

Lezing, Van Leeuwenhoek Lecture on BioScience

Lezing

Lezing