Bird beaks are highly multifunctional structures, used for foraging, temperature regulation, singing and preening. This project will combine a comparison of existing bill images taken from house sparrows and a non-commensal subspecies with collection of new data from a captive house sparrow population to investigate the association between beak morphological variation and human commensalism.

In this study, we aim to have an overview of how existing models estimate CO2 and CH4 emission processes in inland waters and identify key modelling processes.

The project offers opportunities for a HBO intern who is interested in applying molecular techniques to environmental samples, in an exciting area of soil ecology.

In this project, we investigate the soil virosphere to assess phage interactions with soil materials, host bacteria, and soil fauna, with the aim of understanding their influence on carbon and nitrogen cycling.

Where biodiversity loss has on average been halted in nature reserves, biodiversity of rural areas keeps declining. The larger aim of this project (project Living Lab B7) is to enhance biodiversity in the rural part of The Flower Bulb Region.

Where biodiversity loss has on average been halted in nature reserves, biodiversity of rural areas keeps declining. The larger aim of this project (Living Lab B7) is to enhance biodiversity in the rural part of The Flower Bulb Region.

Where biodiversity loss has on average been halted in nature reserves, biodiversity of rural areas keeps declining. The larger aim of this project (Living Lab B7) is to enhance biodiversity in the rural part of The Flower Bulb Region.

Suitable for Master students for at least six months

Suitable for Master students for at least six months

Sperm are critical to successful fertilisation in sexually reproducing animals. The function of sperm – to find and fertilise ova – is universal throughout the animal kingdom, yet the sperm cell is the most morphologically diverse cell type known.