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  Kaixuan Pan PhD candidate / guest

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  Annetrude Boeije PhD candidate

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  Fleur van Duin PhD candidate / self funded

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  Kevin Groen PhD candidate

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  Caitlin Black Lecturer

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  Jennifer Anderson PhD candidate

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  Niels Raes Postdoc / guest

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  Marvin Groen Education and research staff member

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  Michiel Hooykaas Lecturer

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  Athanasios Moraitis PhD candidate

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• Plant occurrence in space and time: the importance of land use, habitat structure, and pollination mode Research output

  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.

• Species Literacy in the Netherlands Research project

  How can species literacy in the Netherlands be explained and improved?

• Invertebrate response to management of roadside edges Research project

  Does roadside management in the mid-west USA increase invertebrate diversity similar to practices in Europe?

• Remote sensing-based assessment of functional diversity for polar ecosystems Research project

  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:…

• Refugee student wins Peter Baehr Prize 2016 News - 2 February 2017

  With the support of the Foundation for Refugee Students UAF, Russia expert Oshank Hashemi, a cum laude graduate of Leiden University, has won the Peter Baehr Prize 2016.

• Snake genomes and toxin evolution Research project

  How did toxin genes evolve from harmless physiological genes?

• Stoepplantjes (Pavement plants) Research project

  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.…

• Environmental Biology Research project

  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…

• DNAmarkerpoint Research facility

  The main purpose of DNAmarkerpoint is to better understand the ecology, evolution and biodiversity through the study of ancient- and modern DNA.

• Silva Nova – Restoring soil biology and soil functions to gain multiple benefits in new forests Research project

  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…

• Microbial hitchhiking Research project

  How do nonmotile microbes leverage communal motility?

• Bugs and birds and landscape complexity Research project

  What invertebrates are available to feed nestlings in an agricultural landscape of varied complexity?

• Invertebrates on the edge Research project

  What invertebrates live in the fields and edges? Do the populations change with landscape complexity?

• Satellite remote sensing of plant functional diversity Research output

  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.

• Cryptic species discovery Research project

  Do understudied animals contain hidden species?

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  Kees Musters Postdoc / guest

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  Emily Strange Assistant professor

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  Ruben Huele Lecturer / guest

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• Resolving rapid radiations Research project

  What are the phylogenetic relationships among the members of speciation bursts?

• Metabolic Characterization of Marine Sponge Research project

  Which metabolites of sponge are influenced by individual environmental or biological factors?

• Diversity and distribution of octocorals and scleractinians in the Persian Gulf region Research output

  Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotores: B.W. Hoeksema; L.P. van Ofwegen

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  Jorinde Nuytinck Postdoc / guest

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  Merlijn van Weerd Lecturer

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  Eefje de Goede PhD Candidate

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  Niels van der Windt PhD candidate / Self Funded

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• Environmental assessment and guidance for the future offshore wind energy development Research output

  This thesis aims to address offshore wind energy (OWE)-related environmental impacts.

• Polar auxin transport: translating environmental signals into plant developmental responses Research project

  1. What is the exact role of PIN proteins in PAT? 2. How is PIN polarity established, and how is it modulated by AGC kinase-mediated phosphorylation? 3. What is the role of the AGC kinase, as modulators of PAT, in translating environmental signals, such as gravity, light or mechanical stress, to plant…

• Patterns of coral species richness and reef connectivity in Malaysia Research output

  Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotor: B.W. Hoeksema

• The eel, a swimming paradox Research project

  Why is the swimming efficiency of the European eel higher than predicted?

• The complicated conservation problem of genetic pollution Research project

  How does invasive hybridization affect threatened native species?

• Dynamic biogeography – Hybrid zone movement Research project

  Does a moving hybrid zone leave a genomic footprint?

• Evolutionary traps – Balanced lethal systems Research project

  How do balanced lethal systems originate and persist in nature?

• About this minor Biodiversity

• Hybrid zones: a quick guide by Ben Wielstra News - 11 February 2021

  Ben Wielstra studies hybrid zones, regions in which distinct populations of organisms meet, mate and produce genetically admixed offspring. In the journal Current Biology, he introduces hybrid zones in an accessible way.

• If we do nothing, more plants will go extinct News - 15 May 2023

  A wide range of plant species is essential to our earth because of the different materials and foods these plants provide. But plant diversity has decreased drastically in recent decades. PhD candidate Kaixuan Pan explains what we can do to increase it once again.

• Balanced lethal systems: a quick guide by Ben Wielstra News - 7 July 2020

  Ben Wielstra studies balanced lethal systems, in which half of the offspring die before birth. In the journal Current Biology, he explains in an accessible way how such a disadvantage can originate in nature.

• Management implications for invertebrate assemblages in the Midwest American agricultural landscape Research output

  Promotor: G.R. de Snoo Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters

• Living legacies: Influence of plant-mediated changes in soil communities on aboveground plant-insect interactions Research project

  We examine how soil-derived legacy effects of plants structure natural ecosystems, determine aboveground plant insect interactions, and how we can use soil legacy effects to restore degraded ecosystems.

• Assemblage and functioning of bacterial communities in soil and rhizosphere Research output

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

• The tension between nature conservation and economic valuation of ecosystem services Research output

  Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, W.T. de Groot, Co-promotor: C.J.M. Musters