Animal Ecology
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The breeding biology of the great tit and its main competitors |
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Timing of growth and reproduction: ultimate functions and proximate mechanisms |
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Parental investment: ultimate functions and proximate mechanisms |
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Evolutionary genetics of avian personalities |
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Functional significance of reproduction, dispersal and survival, heritability and plasticity of different coping strategies in the great tit |
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Selection for clutch size in the great tit on Vlieland |
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Molecular ecology of birds |
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The effect of waterfowl grazing on vegetation composition and the population dynamics of fennel pondweed (EXCLOSURES) |
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Competition between charophytes and fennel pondweed in shallow lakes; may avian herbivores affect the outcome? (COMPETITION) |
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The impact of herbivores on establishment, diversity and community composition of aquatic plants (WAFORMURA) |
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The impact of loss of macrophyte diversity due to eutrophication for ecosystem diversity and functions (LOENDERVEEN) |
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Dispersal of aquatic organisms by waterbirds: what makes a good disperser? (SNAIL) |
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Qualification of the allochtonous nutrient input in freshwater by waterfowl (ALLONUT) |
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Arctic breeding waterfowl as vectors for avian influenza viruses (IPY-AVIFLU) |
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The use of 'Southern Capital' in Arctic breeding waterfowl (GOOSARCTIC) |
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Changes along the migratory route of Bewick's swans (ESTONIA) |
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Fitness consequences of diet choice in waterbirds of agricultural and natural landscapes (FIT DIET) |
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Leaving the Arctic: how shorebirds prepare for southward migratory flights of 10.000 km and more (BERINGIA) |
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Social foraging under incomplete information (FORAGING) |
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Incorporating tools from behavioural ecology into carrying capacity models of migratory waterbirds (CAPACITY) |
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Avian Spatial Ecology: from individual behaviour to poplation dynamics in the Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) using spatially and temporally explicit approaches (MC-BSE) |
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Avian Spatial Ecology: from individual behaviour to population dynamics in the Bewick's swan (ASE) |
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Spring migration and full-annual cycle models for Arctic breeding birds: explaining and predicting behaviour and population trends (ANNROUT) |
Aquatic Ecology
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Explaining the structure and dynamics of communities by means of individual-based simulation models (OSIRIS |
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Interactions among three closely related Daphnia 'species' in contrasting environments - a microcosm study (COSM) |
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Viability of food specialist in a fluctuating heterogeneous environment: the Everglade Snail kite (EVERKITE) |
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The role of fungal parasites in phytoplankton growth and succession (PARASITE/DIATOM) |
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Inducible defences: from individual plasticity to food web dynamics and persistence (DEFENCE) |
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Chasing the Red Queen (QUEEN) |
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Connectivity, dispersal and priority effects as drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem function in pond and pool communities (BIOPOOL) |
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Multiple stressors - The combined effect of pesticides, cyanotoxins and infochemicals on zooplankton (MULTISTRESS) |
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Genomic approach to study induced defence in cyanobacteria (CYANOGEN) |
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Biomass size distributions of micro-crustacean zooplankton communities: can they be explained by variations in temperature, productivity and habitat complexity? (SIZE) |
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Comparative fish community and food web research in lakes and reservoirs along a temperature gradient (FISHSTRAT) |
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Decoupling and adaptation of trophic interactions in aquatic food webs under climate change (DECADAP) |
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Restoration of Dutch peat lakes (DREISSENA/PEAT) |
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Effects of increased pCO2 on freshwater food webs through physical-chemical coupling: a stoichiometric perspective (STOICHWEB) |
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The impact of rising pCO2 on harmful cyanobacteria (CWECYANO) |
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Impact of climate change on the vulnerability of lakes for surface blooms of harmful cyanobacteria (CLIMCYANO) |
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New integrative model of lake ecosystems functioning: stability and controllability analysis (INTEGRATE) |
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Ecohydromorphology in shallow lakes: quantifying effects of biological elements on abiotic processes in shallow lakes (ECOMORPH) |
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Impact of eutrophication status and fisheries on major pathways in Lake Victoria food webs: a combined experimental and field study approach (SEDEC-1) |
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Modelling study to unravel interactions and feedbacks resulting from eutrophication or fishery as most likely factors driving changes in Lake Victoria’s food web (SEDEC-2) |
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Environmental stress and disease in aquatic ecosystems (GEDIHAP) |
Microbial Ecology
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Functioning of ammonia- and methane-oxidising bacteria under stress: selection or adaptation? |
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Ecology of iron-oxidising bacteria in wetland environments |
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Ecology of non-thermophilic freshwater crenarchaeota |
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Resolving variability in plankton size and physiological status for satellite mapping of productivity of dominant algae and cyanobacteria in inland and coastal waters |
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The role of microbial diversity in the dynamics and stability of global methane consumption: microbial methane oxidation as model-system for microbial ecology (METHECO) |
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The biochemical basis of niche differentiation among ammonia-oxidising bacteria |
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The role of sulphate-reducing bacteria in controlling sediment phosphorus preservation |
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Distribution of ammonia-oxidising prokaryotes in impounded mangrove systems |
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Interaction between micro organisms and insect herbivores on above- and below-ground parts of Senecio spp: the role of pyrrolizidine alkaloids |
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Ecological function of bacterial chitinases in soils |
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Relationship between microbial community composition and suppressiveness of VFG compost |
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Functional links between plant diversity and below-ground microbial biodiversity |
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The significance of microbial diversity in agricultural soil for suppressiveness of plant diseases and nutrient retention |
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Development of pathogen pressure in the rhizosphere of plants with different life histories |
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Diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in grasslands: evaluation by traditional and molecular based techniques |
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Effect of plant-fungal interactions on bacterial traits in the rhizosphere |
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Development of methodology to assess the risk of transgenic plants on soil processes |
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Genes involved in bacterial mycoparasitism |
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Fungal bacterial interactions during degradation of recalcitrant organic matter |
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Colonization of abandoned arable land by fungi |
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Effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide on the functional diversity of soil microbial communities and consequences for plant disease incidences in natural ecosystems |
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Assessing the living soil |
Terrestrial Ecology
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Extrafloral nectar in a multi-trophic context |
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Insect parasitoids in multitrophic interactions |
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Multitrophic interactions in soil communities and consequences for aboveground herbivores and their antagonists |
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Chemical mediation of interactions between above and below ground phytophages and their natural enemies |
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Food source utilization by hymenopteran parasitoids |
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Honeydew as a route exposing non-target arthropods to transgene products |
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Above-belowground herbivore interactions in wild crucifers |
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Honeydew composition in a multitrophic context |
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Optimal AG distribution of plant defences after AG and BG herbivore attack |
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Competition between plants and herbivores for protection by ants |
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Ecology of plant parasitic nematodes, their host plants and antagonists in European coastal sand dunes: Training opportunity for ecologists and agricultural biocontrol researchers (ECOTRAIN) |
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Multitrophic interactions and community ecology: outline of projected experimental programme and progress |
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The effects of soil herbivores and fungal grazers on ecosystem functioning and biodiversity |
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Soils in transition: soil food web structure, soil ecosystem processes and vegetation development in secondary succession |
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Conservation of soil biodiversity (CONSIDER) |
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The impact of invasive grass species on the structure, function and sustainable use of coastal and inland sand dune ecosystems in Southern Africa |
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Specificity and population biology of plant-parasitic nematodes |
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Functional analysis of interactions within multiple-species complexes of soil-borne pathogens |
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Linking above- and belowground multitrophic interactions |
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Direct and indirect above- and belowground interactions |
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Trophic linkages between above- and below-ground organisms as a key to successful restoration of biodiversity on ex-arable land across Europe (TLINKS) |
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Soil and sediment biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (SCOPE) |
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