Subjects for MSc-Thesis
New Subjects (from December 2009)

For more information about the non-linked topics, please e-mail egbert.lantinga@wur.nl

  Optimization of a mobile organic broiler system in a fruit tree garden (Droevendaal farm; summer/autumn 2010)
  Optimization of on-farm nutrient management in Ethiopia and Kenya
  Understanding the role of organic mulching and cover crops on productivity of cropping and farming systems in Uruguay
  Assessment of the quality and quantity of pointed cabbage grown under different farmyard manure treatments
  On-farm research at a biodynamic farm in Portugal (Serra de Estrela)
  Putting a conventional school farm in Mozambique into organic conversion
  Writing a review paper on stockfree agriculture (i.e. without the use of manure or the by-products of confined animals)
  Soil organic matter profiles under long-term pastures in Wageningen
  Designing an organic farm at the Toba Lake in northern Sumatra (Indonesia)
Farming Systems
  Comparison of economic and ecological performance of organic and conventional farming systems in the tropics
  Designing sustainable cropping systems in Latin America
  Analysis and redesign of the organic farm Annapurna in Tamil Nadu, India
  Model-based analysis of spatial heterogeneity: spatial epidemiology of plant diseases in cultivar mixtures
  Are farms with alternative manure and soil management more environmentally friendly than conventional farms?
  Alternative farming systems for the experimental organic farm "Droevendaal"
  Policy design for ecosystem services
  Analysis of socio-ecological systems
  Styles of farm and landscape management: Impacts on ecological, environmental and socio-economic dimensions of agro-ecosystems
Nutrient Cycling
  Impact of previous manure management history of grasslands on soil biological activity and potential N-mineralization
  Influence of soil biota on disappearance of and gaseous losses from solid cattle manure
  Soil micro-, meso- and macrofaunal-mediated organic manure disappearance and decomposition in grasslands with different management histories
  Evaluation of the role of soil biota in nitrogen dynamics in grasslands fertilized with solid cattle manure
  Volatilization of ammonia (NH3) in sloping floor barn with different bedding additives
  Development of a mass-diffusion SIMILE model for predicting ammonia emission from cattle straw manure subjected to different storage conditions
  Development of a process-based ammonia emission model for solid manure systems
  Estimation of short-term N recovery and measuring ammonia losses following application of cattle straw manure to grassland with different bedding materials and contrasting storage conditions
  Estimation of nitrogen loss pathways during storage of solid cattle manure under different conditions
  Effects of particle size, additives and irrigation on ammonia emission from surface applied solid cattle manure
  The release and plant uptake of nitrogen from fresh, aerobically decomposed and anaerobically fermented solid cattle manure
  Growing clover: a constraint in organic farming?
  Grass-clover in a farming system context: solution for N-shortages on organic arable farms?
  Microbial and chemical composition of cow dung on organic and conventional farms
  Measurement and estimation of biological fixation of nitrogen by legumes
  Use of on-farm produced nutrients on a stockless organic farm in The Netherlands
Soil-Crop Interactions
  Contributions to understanding soil borne pathogen dynamics under organic and conventional farming systems
  Modelling soil borne pathogen dynamics under organic and conventional farming systems in Southern Uruguay, from a whole-farm perspective
  Organic matter decomposition: dynamics of bacteria, nitrogen release in soil, and emission of greenhouse gases
  Soil-health evolution in organic greenhouses
Spatial Ecology
Capture it if you can! Analysing predator walking behaviour in simple and complex landscapes:
  Part 1: From individual behaviour of beetles to population dynamics: A modelling study
  Part 2: What motivates a beetle?: Automated camera observation
  Part 3: Patterns in the field
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