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

Dr.ir. Willie Peijnenburg is per 1 september 2009 bij de Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar Environmental Toxicology and Biodiversity. Het betreft een deeltijdaanstelling. Peijnenburg blijft daarnaast werkzaam bij het Laboratorium voor Ecologische Risico-beoordeling…

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

The global agri-food system plays a critical role in food security and environmental issues.

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.U. Keller

What are interactive effects of human pressures on aquatic communities?

Are there significant differences among the environmental impacts resulting form the production of Asian aquaculture commodities and what are the main causes for these?

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo

The development of new environmentally sound technologies is seen as a key route towards achieving sustainability.

Door middel van DNA-restjes in het milieu de verspreiding van bedreigde dieren in kaart brengen: het Centrum voor Milieuwetenschap Leiden (CML) stuurde studenten naar de Filipijnen om een nieuwe opsporingsmethode te testen: environmental DNA. National Geographic schreef er een artikel over.

Promotores: Prof.dr.G.R. de Snoo and Dr. R. Heijungs

Wat zijn de belangrijkste thema's in het uitvoeren van systemen voor bio-energie ?

Material outflows from industrial economies.

A sustainable resource management is an essential aspect to satisfy the current human needs without compromising the needs of future generations.

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

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Promotores: H.A. Udo De Haes, P.M. Brakefield

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

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden (CML)

The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).

The Institute of Environmental Sciences has carried out and participates in several projects that deal with the analysis of energy systems.

The use of N fertilizers has increased worldwide in the past century. While this increased input of N has increased food productivity, it has also contributed to decreases in biodiversity, soil quality and environmental health, including increases in greenhouse gas emissions.

Marine sponges are important members of reef ecosystems, as they play ecological roles that are essential for the health of the reef.

Development of an aggregated impact indicator to measure decoupling.

EXIOBASE is a global, detailed Multi-regional Environmentally Extended Supply and Use / Input Output (MR EE SUT/IOT) database. It was developed by harmonizing and detailing SUT for a large number of countries, estimating emissions and resource extractions by industry, linking the country EE SUT via…

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Plant architecture has distinct forms in different plant species, but also within a species the finalarchitecture of a plant is determined by its gradual development and changes therein induced by environmental conditions during the plant’s life cycle.

Can we provide the Dutch government with an integrative framework, wherein the various policies can be placed and the need for further measures can be identified?

The field of science communication is very broad. Below is a list of organisations where SCS students can fulfill internships or where alumni have found jobs.

The department of Industrial Ecology is dealing with research into the development of tools for decision making on sustainable production and consumption.

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: B.W. Hoeksema; L.P. van Ofwegen

This thesis focuses on two processes involved in fighting infections: metabolism and immune cell motility and navigation.

Description of The Regional Network on the Synergy between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

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Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL)

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De Universiteit Leiden, TU Delft en Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam werken nauw samen in onderzoek en onderwijs, ook op het gebied van minoronderwijs. Ze bieden gezamenlijke minoren aan en ze hanteren voor elkaars studenten een aparte toelatingsregeling.

What invertebrates are available to feed nestlings in an agricultural landscape of varied complexity?

The book ‘Bestrijdingsmiddelen en Milieu' gives a transparent overview of facts and figures concerning pesticide use in the Netherlands and the impact of pesticides on the environment.

Promotores: C. J. ten Cate; M. A. Ainslie. Co-promotor: W. Slabbekoorn

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