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.

In recent decades, climate change has led to more frequent and severe drought events, causing serious consequences such as increased forest mortality and significant crop yield losses. Understanding how drought affects plants, especially economically important herbaceous species, is crucial for predicting…

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: P.J.J. Hooykaas, Co-Promotor: E.J. van der Zaal

This thesis focuses on the development of sample-preparation methods for small amounts of samples and applying the developed methods to muscle tissues to investigate the mechanisms involved in sarcopenia.

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

Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Hadassah Drukarch en Bart Custers van eLaw - Centrum voor Recht en Digitale Technologie, onderzoeken met Pranav Khanna , eLaw alumnus, de invloed van automatisering op de interactie tussen mens en robot en verantwoordelijkheid bij chirurgische innovatie.

Op 13 mei 2024 gaf Carlotta Rigotti een presentatie tijdens WOROBET 2024, een workshop gewijd aan robotethiek die deel uitmaakte van de IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024 in Yokohama (Japan). Haar presentatie genaamd “Ensuring sexual safety in human-machine interactions,

In this thesis, we developed new ways to use a technique called electroextraction (EE) to extract charged molecules from one liquid into another using an electric field.

Which traits and/or trade-offs determine benefits of being deciduous or evergreen?

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:…

Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…

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

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

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

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

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

Sewer pipes are an essential infrastructure in modern society and their proper operation is important for public health. To keep sewer pipes operational as much as possible, periodical inspections for defects are performed.

Promotores: Prof.dr. P.M. Brakefield, Prof.dr. B.J. Zwaan (Wageningen Universiteit)

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

Promotor: P.M. Brakefield

My PhD thesis investigates the ecological significance of resistance against drought-induced air bubble formation inside the water conduits of plants (embolism), and the plasticity and functional aspects of stem anatomical traits in woody and herbaceous species.

Plant-microbe interaction resulted in different physio/chemical responses by host plant and interacting rhizobacteria.

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

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The study of orchid flowers, fruits, and inflorescences is crucial due to the remarkable diversity of orchid species and their unique adaptations to pollinators and seed dispersers. However, our understanding of the evolution and development of these organs within the orchid family remains limited.

Dissochaeta Blume (Melastomataceae, tribe Dissochaeteae) is well-known as a scrambling plant genus found in Southeast Asia, where it is an inhabitant of the tropical rainforests or evergreen forests.

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

Mycorrhizas are symbiotic associations between soil fungi and most plant species.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

Organisms often need to adapt more efficiently and devise new strategies for surviving difficult ecological circumstances.

This thesis focuses on important life history traits and their trade-offs using two hexapod models. Particularly, the trade-off between immune defense and embryonic developmental speed is a central theme of this study.

Human vocal communication and music perception represent advanced cognitive skills, seemingly innate and universal. These faculties encompass a range of perceptual and cognitive abilities. Cross-species research sheds light on the origins of musicality by investigating whether these traits are shared…

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.G.L Klinkhamer, Co-promotor: K. Vrieling

In this thesis, I targeted the orchid genus Lepanthes, one of the six genera of angiosperms that surpasses 1,000 species in the Neotropics, as a study model to investigate the evolutionary processes that promoted species diversifications.

Plant exudates appeared long time ago in the history line of life in the early Devonian. They are typical saps produced by specialized cells.

Breeding for resistance becomes more and more important because we want to reduce the use of pesticides. A fast and cheap alternative can be to make use of morphological or chemical markers.

Het onderzoek binnen de Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen omvat de disciplines wiskunde, informatica, sterrenkunde, natuurkunde, scheikunde, bio-farmaceutische wetenschappen, biologie en milieuwetenschappen.