What are interactive effects of human pressures on aquatic communities?

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

World history is often framed in terms of flows of people and migration: humans coming ‘out of Africa’, the spread of farmers in the Holocene, Phoenician and Greek diasporas over the ancient Mediterranean, the colonization of the world by Europeans from the 16th century onwards. Together with his Exeter…

Freshwater is an important resource, but at a great risk of species decline due to habitat loss, pollution and over-exploitation, and invasive alien species.

Met de opening op 19 januari van het Service Centre International Staff krijgen buitenlandse medewerkers veel meer ondersteuning dan voorheen. Elke ochtend kunnen ze met al hun vragen terecht bij het Service Centre in het Bestuursgebouw aan het Rapenburg.

Decentralized plug and play systems for energy production are the future picture of our society. Artificial photosynthetic systems are used for this purpose.

Promotores: Prof. dr. G.R. (Geert) de Snoo, Dr. E. (Ester) van der Voet

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

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Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O.W. van Gaans

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.

To deliver a Virtual Sensor tool optimised to exploit the synergy between Sentinels 2 and 3 to allow the consistent retrieval of land surface parameters (Albedo, LAI, and LST); To extend the existing capabilities of land EO data assimilation tools to add capacity to handle data in the thermal domain…

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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.

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…

11 november jl. verdedigde Carina Schott, onderzoeker en docent aan het Instituut Bestuurskunde, haar proefschrift: Playing a role ‐ but which one? How public service motivation and professionalism affect decision‐making in dilemma situations.

Freshwater and brackish water ecosystems are arguably the most vulnerable ecosystems on earth, due to concentrated human developments in and around them. The Pontocaspian (PC) region located at the border of Europe and Asia contains a variety of brackish water ecosystems and unique inhabitants, known…

Material circularity and energy efficiency are highly relevant and intertwined issues for the transition towards a carbon-neutral and circular built environment. In the Netherlands, the building sector has been rendered a priority towards a circular and low-carbon society.

In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.

Promotor: G.P. van Wezel, Co-promotor: D. Claessen

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

The soil ecosystem consists of the largest reservoir of biodiversity on Earth.

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…

Het rapport ‘Implications of Brexit on EU Financial Services’ is gepubliceerd dat is geschreven op verzoek van het Europees Parlement. De gevolgen van een Brexit voor financiële dienstverlening zijn daarin zowel vanuit juridisch als vanuit economisch perspectief onderzocht.

An overview is given of the flows of chlorine and chlorinated hydrocarbons through the Europian Union.

Materials balances have been used in the recent past for the analysis of substance oriented environmental problems and the formulation of measures for environmental policy. In this study an integrated tool, based on the materials balance principle, has been developed for the analysis of both environmental…

A substance flow analysis, covering about 99 % of the flows of chlorinated substances in the Netherlands.

Promoter: Ed F. Deprettere, Co-promoter: Todor P. Stefanov

The role of material production as a driver of environmental impacts is increasing, which calls for a better understanding of global material flows. This thesis explores the role of in-use stocks of products, buildings and infrastructure as a key driver of global material demand and discusses the implications…

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

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