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

Developing methodes to understand the evolution of patches in natural ecosystems

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

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

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:…

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

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

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?

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

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

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…

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,…

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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CML rapport 192

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Binnen de eerste subsidieronde van het NWO-onderzoeksprogramma Complexity is het project 'Critical transitions and early-warning signals in spatial ecosystems', gezamenlijk ingediend door Arjen Doelman, Jens Rademacher (CWI) en Max Rietkerk en Martin Wassen (beiden geowetenschappen, UU), gehonoreerd…

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Ethiopian wolves are endangered diurnal Afroalpine rodent hunters. I investigated the interaction between wolves, rodents and human land use in Borena Sayint National Park (BSNP), Abune Yosef and Aboi Gara in Ethiopia.

What are interactive effects of human pressures on aquatic communities?

Hogere temperaturen leiden wereldwijd tot veranderingen in de vegetatie en de bodem van berggebieden. Een internationaal onderzoeksteam met de Leidse ecoloog Ellen Cieraad publiceerde op 25 januari in Nature over de verstoring van het ecosysteem.

Donderdag 2 Februari 2017 heeft Prof. dr. Janne Bengtsson van de 'Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences' in Uppsala een lezing gegeven met de titel: "Biological control as an ecosystem service" aan het Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen (CML).

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Met ingang van 1 mei 2018 is Nicole de Voogd benoemd tot Bijzonder hoogleraar Global Change and Marine Ecosystems bij het Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML). Zij is momenteel senior onderzoeker bij Naturalis Biodiversity Center op het gebied van tropische mariene ecosystemen.

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Leeuwen beperken hun prooidieren, zoals zebra’s en gnoes, in hun mogelijkheden zich aan te passen aan een opwarmende aarde. Dat ontdekte Leidse onderzoeker Michiel Veldhuis van het Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen in Leiden samen met internationale collega’s. Het onderzoek is op 1 juni in Nature Ecology…

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Lezing, Seminar

Promotores: J.A.van Veen, P.L.G.Klinkhamer. Co-promotor: E.E.Kuramae

Plants and soils from natural ecosystems harbor great diversity of soil microorganisms, which could potentially contribute to the sustainability of horticulture. The knowledge about using wild plant species and soil from natural ecosystem to improve the crop health will advance the application of ecological…

How soil microbial composition impacts structure and composition of the aboveground plant and animal communities?

Acidobacteria is a widely distributed phylum but their functional roles in ecosystem processes are still largely elusive.