581 search results for “evolutie biodiversity” in the Public website
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Jennifer Anderson
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Niels Raes
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Marvin Groen
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Mariana Braz Pires
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Annetrude Boeije
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Kevin Groen
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Fleur van Duin
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Kaixuan Pan
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Why not sing? Reconstructing the evolution of female and male bird song
Female and male songbirds sing equally elaborate songs in some species, but in others, females do not sing like males or not at all. How did such pronounced differences in male and female communication evolve?
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Invertebrate response to management of roadside edges
Does roadside management in the mid-west USA increase invertebrate diversity similar to practices in Europe?
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Perception of multidimensional speech sounds in humans and songbirds
Do humans and zebra finches share cognitive mechanisms that are important for speech perception?
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Microbial communities in Pampa soils; impact of land use changes, soil type and climatic conditions
Promotor: J.A. van Veen, Co-promotor: E.E. Kuramae
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Neurogenomics of vocal learning
How does FoxP1 affect auditory perception on a behavioural and genomic level?
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The comparative biology of language learning
A theoretical project on the insights gained by human (including infant), nonhuman animal and computational studies on artificial grammar learning; identifying the critical questions for future research by developing novel experimental and computational approaches to address these issues.
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Remote sensing-based assessment of functional diversity for polar ecosystems
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:…
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Snake genomes and toxin evolution
How did toxin genes evolve from harmless physiological genes?
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Regulation of vegetative development and life history strategy in plants
How is vegetative development regulated in plants and how does this affect a plant’s life history strategy?
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Environmental Biology
This research programme aims to increase the scientific understanding of how current and emerging anthropogenic threats affect biodiversity and ecosystem services to facilitate strategic management of natural resources. To this end, we address urgent challenges in relation to the mechanisms involved…
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Stoepplantjes (Pavement plants)
In our lives we often have little attention or appreciation for plants, let alone the ones we commonly call weeds. This inattention for plants has been described as plant blindness. The Stoepplantjes project aspires to decrease plant blindness by changing the image of weeds and using citizen science.…
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Plant occurrence in space and time: the importance of land use, habitat structure, and pollination mode
Plant diversity is essential for us and our planet as it sustains the stability of our ecosystems, provides vital materials and food to us and supports many ecosystem services.
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Matter into context: population- and community-level impacts of nanomaterials in freshwater ecosystems
The application of nanomaterials in industrial processes and consumer products provides many societal benefits, but can also lead to the release of nanomaterials into the environment. The work in this dissertation aims to provide insights into the potential environmental impacts that may follow from…
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DNAmarkerpoint
The main purpose of DNAmarkerpoint is to better understand the ecology, evolution and biodiversity through the study of ancient- and modern DNA.
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Silva Nova – Restoring soil biology and soil functions to gain multiple benefits in new forests
We will study how inoculation of former arable land with soil (including the microbiome, soil fauna and seeds/rhizomes of ground flora) from old forests along with planting targeted tree species mixtures will improve productivity and more rapidly restore forest-adapted communities and ulttimately result…
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Invertebrates on the edge
What invertebrates live in the fields and edges? Do the populations change with landscape complexity?
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Bugs and birds and landscape complexity
What invertebrates are available to feed nestlings in an agricultural landscape of varied complexity?
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Kees Musters
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Emily Strange
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Ruben Huele
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Microbial hitchhiking
How do nonmotile microbes leverage communal motility?
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Diversity and distribution of octocorals and scleractinians in the Persian Gulf region
Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: B.W. Hoeksema; L.P. van Ofwegen
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Segments and rules: a comparative study on linguistic rule learning mechanisms
A central and much debated topic in the study of language acquisition concerns the nature of the learning mechanisms that are required. Are the computational and learning mechanisms that guide learning about language structure special and specific to language or humans?
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Satellite remote sensing of plant functional diversity
Biodiversity enables ecosystems to thrive through the synergy of functional differences among organisms. While human well-being strongly depends on biodiversity-driven ecosystem services, human actions are also at the root of current unprecedented biodiversity declines.
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Patterns of coral species richness and reef connectivity in Malaysia
Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotor: B.W. Hoeksema
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Cryptic species discovery
Do understudied animals contain hidden species?
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Onze vroegste voorouders
De menselijke geschiedenis strekt zich ver uit vóór de tijd waarin de mensen opschreven wat er zoal gebeurde.
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Antiquities of the rainforest: evolution of mycoheterotrophic angiosperms growing on Glomeromycota
Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: Dr. V.S.F.T. Merckx
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De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen
Nederland ligt in de periferie van het verhaal van menswording. De evolutie van onze familie vindt lang exclusief in Afrika plaats. En, als Europa eenmaal bewoond wordt door mensachtigen, ligt het zwaartepunt ten zuiden van onze streken. Toch heeft ons land een aantal interessante vindplaatsen en vondsten…
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The eel, a swimming paradox
Why is the swimming efficiency of the European eel higher than predicted?
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Dynamic biogeography – Hybrid zone movement
Does a moving hybrid zone leave a genomic footprint?
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The complicated conservation problem of genetic pollution
How does invasive hybridization affect threatened native species?
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Evolutionary traps – Balanced lethal systems
How do balanced lethal systems originate and persist in nature?
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Jorinde Nuytinck
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Merlijn van Weerd
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Niels van der Windt
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Suzanne Marselis
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Eefje de Goede
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Resolving rapid radiations
What are the phylogenetic relationships among the members of speciation bursts?
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Environmental assessment and guidance for the future offshore wind energy development
This thesis aims to address offshore wind energy (OWE)-related environmental impacts.
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Management implications for invertebrate assemblages in the Midwest American agricultural landscape
Promotor: G.R. de Snoo Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters
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Metabolic Characterization of Marine Sponge
Which metabolites of sponge are influenced by individual environmental or biological factors?