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Department of Terrestrial Ecology

Biological invasions, biodiversity loss or changing land use? The department of Terrestrial Ecology knows what that can do to plants and all other life forms below- and aboveground.

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2019

Learning from nature– towards sustainable crop production using soil fungi The aim of this research project is to investigate how management of agricultural soils can be modified to profit from beneficial soil fungi in terms of...

2018

Linking range-expansion of plants with trophic downgrading in the soil The aim of this research is to examine the effects of invertebrate soil predators on the performance of a vigorously northward-expanding herbaceous plant...

2018

Soil protists and plants: who is in control? The aim of this research is to disentangle the effect of diversity on plant performance focusing on crop, early successional and mid successional plant species...

2017

Impact of large grazers on plant quality and abundance of arthropods Large grazers affect the quality of grassland vegetation for smaller herbivores such as arthropods. Also atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition and phosphorus (P...

2017

Impact of large herbivores on grassland ecosystems across the globe Vertebrate herbivores are key drivers of species composition and ecosystem functioning in terrestrial and wetland ecosystems worldwide. Currently, communities...

2017

Setting up a novel, long-term NIOO research line on vertebrate grazing in a globally distributed experimental network Vertebrate herbivores have strong effects on the biodiversity, structure and functioning of grasslands. With this project we build a field site according to...

2016

Boosting the efficacy of biological control agents of citrus mealybugs through olfactory conditioning Hymenopterous parasitoids are key biological control agents that contribute to biological control of economically important pests in both agricultural and...

2016

Guest research projects These guest researchers from China will investigate aboveground-belowground multitrophic interactions from the points of view of functional biodiversity and...

2016

Vital soils for sustainable intensification of agriculture A key challenge for sustainable intensification of agriculture is to produce increasing amounts of food for a growing world population, with minimal loss of...

2015

Linking aboveground-belowground interactions and plant-soil feedback to improve pest control and sustainability in greenhouse cut-flowers Chysanthemum is a major cut-flower crop in greenhouses in the Netherlands that is grown in soil. The soil is disinfected frequently by steaming. In this...

2015

Living legacies: Influence of plant-mediated changes in soil communities on aboveground plant-insect interactions Via specific effects on soil organisms, plants can influence the soil community and this, in turn, can influence the growth of other plants that grow later in...

2015

Rapid rotifer adaptation – an investigation into the adaptive potential of asexual lineages The capacity of populations to adapt rapidly to a changing environment can strongly contribute to the persistence of populations, the maintenance of...

2014

Learning from nature: Using plant-soil feedback effects to improve disease control and sustainability in greenhouse cut-flowers Chrysanthemum is an important cut flower crop in The Netherland, and soil-borne diseases cause major losses in the yield of Chrysanthemum. In this project we...

2014

Specialists at work: how decomposers break down plant litter The aim of this project is to obtain a mechanistic understanding of specific litter-decomposer interactions and their feedback effects on plant growth. We...

2013

Liberation: Linking farmland biodiversity to ecosystem services for effective ecological intensification Conventional intensive agriculture brought food security for millions of people, but it has many drawbacks. Currently it is one of the major causes of...

2012

Assessing impacts of land use for bio-based economy on soil and sediment biodiversity, ecosystem processes and services We are testing how plant/crop species and growth conditions influence soil biodiversity, and how these changes in soil biodiversity feed back to soil ecosystem...

2012

Finding the Holy Grail in production ecology: a systems biology approach to understand how plants may combine fast growth with effective defence against belowground natural enemies Society has expressed strong interest in a bio-based economy. This requires high-yielding crops that efficiently use nutrients and water and are insensitive to...

2012

KNAW strategic project - Centre for Soil Ecology In order to enhance research in soil ecology, KNAW has granted a strategic project for two Postdoc positions in order to enable promising researchers to...

2012

Species range shifts, aboveground-belowground community reassembly and consequences for ecosystem functioning (SPECIALS) Climate warming promotes intra-continental range shifts of plants, animals and microbes from lower to higher latitudes and altitudes. Plants may shift their...

2011

Causes and consequences of heritable epigenetic variation in asexual plants This VIDI project explores epigenetic variation in apomictic dandelion. We aim to understand the potential of epigenetics to contribute to heritable plant...

2011

Climate change, range expansion and adaptation to novel selection pressures: the epigenetic dimension This project investigates evidence for an epigenetic contribution to plant adaptation in response to climate warming. We use historical climate-induced range...

2011

Comparative genomics and evolution of learning rate We compare the foraging behaviour of parasitic insects. How do they deal with spatial variation of their hosts and host-food plants? The chemical ecological...

2011

Ecology of the biobased economy. Soil amelioration with biochar in a natural ecosystem Climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels urges mankind to adopt sustainable, so called ‘biobased’ energy sources. This change will fundamentally affect...

2011

Effects of genetic variation on above-belowground interactions in different populations of wild cabbage Populations of wild cabbage plants grow along a linear transect of the British coastline and leaf tissues exhibit immense variation in the types and...

2011

Phenological interactions amongst short-lived plants and multivoltine insects Many studies have explored the mechanisms of plant finding and exploitation by herbivores and their parasitoids. However, many of these studies assume that...

2011

Soil heterogeneity as a key to restoring nature and biodiversity on former arable fields Soil biotic and abiotic conditions vary greatly over space, and insight into the role that soil heterogeneity plays in creating and maintaining plant diversity...

2011

Temporal scales of aboveground-belowground multitrophic interactions We study the temporal aspects of aboveground and belowground interactions, which is an indispensable part of aboveground-belowground research. First, we will...

2011

The Jena Experiment", a long-term grassland biodiversity experiment aimed at investigating plant biodiversity effects on ecosystem processes and functions We will explore plant-soil biotic interactions within the framework of the Jena experiment. More specifically, we concentrate on soil microbial communities and...

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