Projecten in de afdeling Industrial Ecology

What is the role of the rebound effect in achieving environmental savings from transport eco-innovation? Are traditional definitions of the rebound effect adequate in the context of transformative innovations and multidimensional environmental issues?

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, W. Kustiawan, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Mycoheterotrophy is a particular mode of life in which plants obtain carbohydrates from their associated fungal partners, instead of by using photosynthesis.

This ecological community has long been known to affect host biology, and their diverse roles have been further clarified in recent years following numerous studies of animal:microbiota interactions in diverse systems.

The mycorrhizal symbiosis is among the most widespread species interactions on Earth⁠. This thesis focuses on orchid mycorrhiza, a unique mycorrhizal type that has caught scientists’ attention for centuries⁠.

By growing in a soil plants change the biotic and abiotic properties of the soil in which they grow.

We developed the bitterling as a unique, well-studied model organism in the area of the evolutionary ecology of brood parasitism. The bitterling-mussel relationship, interspecific mussel host preference, and mussel gill structure are studied in detail, to help understand the developmental adaptation…

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

As a contribution to the changing legislation and evolving societal attitudes concerning environmental issues, this project aims to enhance and manipulate the plants’ own natural defense mechanisms against western flower thrips (WFT).

Als je van China naar Siberië migreert, zijn een paar tussenstops geen overbodige luxe. Voor trekvogels zijn ze zelfs cruciaal om te overleven. Maar door klimaatverandering verandert de seizoensgebonden beschikbaarheid van voedsel op deze stops. Milieuwetenschapper Yali Si heeft ontdekt dat vogels daardoor…

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,…

Een leefbare aarde. Meer biodiversiteit. En verstandig omgaan met resources. Bij het CML willen we impact maken met ons onderzoek én onderwijs. Op deze website lees je hoe we dat doen.

How to contribute to a quantum leap of eco-industrial symbiosis in China?

CMLCA is a software tool that supports the technical steps of the Life Cycle Assessment. The focus of the program is on advanced computational aspects of life cycle inventory calculations.

De opwarming van de aarde verandert de samenstelling van bodemschimmels op de Arctische toendra. Dat zal gevolgen hebben voor talloze dier- en plantensoorten in de Noordpoolregio. Dit blijkt uit onderzoek van biologe Tatyana Semenova-Nelsen. Promotie 7 december.

Hoe kunnen we onze maatschappij zo inrichten dat de wereld leefbaar blijft voor onszelf en al het andere leven om ons heen? Aan dat vraagstuk werken Leidse wetenschappers samen vanuit allerlei disciplines, van biologie tot datawetenschap en van milieueconomie tot archeologie.

How can ecosystem services within river catchments be quantified in spatial and temporal explicit way?

In het onderwijs bieden wij alle studenten de mogelijkheid om kennis te maken met duurzaamheidsthema’s en –vraagstukken, waar mogelijk aansluitend bij de inhoud van hun opleiding.

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?

How to bring together different footprints into an integrated family and what are the synergies? What are the roles of inventory analysis and characterization in measuring individual footprints and how these affect a footprint family? How to benchmark environmental footprints against related planetary…

In de landelijke Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek werken onderzoekers op het gebied van de Middeleeuwen van zes Nederlandse universiteiten samen. De school verzorgt (in samenwerking met de lokale graduate schools van de universiteiten) de opleiding tot mediëvistisch onderzoeker en biedt ook opleidingsactiviteiten…

Natural history collections provide invaluable sources for researchers with different disciplinary backgrounds, aspiring to study the geographical distribution of flora and fauna across the globe as well as other evolutionary processes.

Balsaminaceae is a diverse plant family characterized by a huge floral morphological diversity.

One of the effects of climate change is the phenomenon of desertification, a process that occurs in semi-arid and arid areas and causes land degradation as well as vegetation loss. Due to the lack of resources, vegetation self-organizes to sustain itself by forming large-scale spatial patterns.

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

The name ‘Jambi flora’ refers to fossil plants found as part of a rock formation from the Early Permian (296 million years old), located in the Jambi Province of Sumatra, Indonesia.

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

The marine shipping industry is one of the strongest emitters of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a pollutant detrimental to ecology and human health. Over the last 20 years, the pollution produced by power plants, the industry sector, and cars has been decreasing.

De zeldzame Ethiopische wolf komt steeds vaker in aanvaring met lokale veehouders. Promovendus Girma Eshete zocht naar manieren om het elegante beest te redden van de ondergang. Promotie op 5 september.

Can we distinguish the effects of pesticides from other abiotic and biotic factors that occur in the field? And how do these factors interact with pesticides?

Hoe is het om mee te doen aan het Leiden Leadership Programme? Alumni delen hun ervaringen: 'Je leert dingen over leiderschap en kan die ook meteen in de praktijk brengen.'

Developing robust algorithms and theory for establishing cause-effect relationships from observational data that scale up to large data sets