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

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.

Developing methodes to understand the evolution of patches in natural ecosystems

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

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

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

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

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

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:…

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,…

Promotores: G. Persoon, R. Schefold

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…

CML rapport 192

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

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…

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

What are interactive effects of human pressures on aquatic communities?

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).

Promotor: G.J. Kramer Co-Promotor: E.G.M. Kleijn

Een kleine geschiedenis van het leven op aarde, verteld aan de hand van eilanden. Wat kunnen wij leren van deze werelden in miniatuur?

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.

Wetland plants are distinguished from plants of other terrestrial ecosystems by their adaptations to specific habitat stresses, including waterlogged and flooding and the subsequent abundance of phytotoxic compounds.

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…

Alumni-activiteit, Congres

Oratie

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?