Projects
Theme 3: Polar terrestrial and coastal zone ecosystems and global change
How trait spectra of bryophytes, vascular plants and soil invertebrates interact to control carbon turnover in arctic tundra: mechanisms underlying climate change impacts (abstract)
Projectleader: Dr. J.H.C. Cornelissen
Organisation: VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences - Systems Ecology
IPY-international: Environmental baselines, processes, changes and Impacts on people in sub-arctic Sweden and the Nordic Arctic Regions (ENVISNAR)
Project period: 01-08-2007 until 31-07-2011
Long-lived evergreen shrubs from polar ecosystems as monitors of present and past climate change: reconstruction of annual polar temperature and Arctic Oscillation phase changes with a new climate multiproxy (wintermark T, 18O and 2H in plant segments) (abstract)
Projectleader: Prof. dr. J. Rozema
Organisation: VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences - Systems Ecology
IPY-international: Terrestrial ecosystems in ARctic and ANTarctic: Effects of UV Light, Liquefying ice, and Ascending temperatures (TARANTELLA)
Project period: 15-01-2008 until 14-01-2012
Geographical and temporal variation in health issues in Arctic breeding birds (abstract)
Projectleader: Dr. M.J.J.E. Loonen
Organisation: University of Groningen, Faculty of Arts - Arctic Centre
IPY-international: Health of Arctic and Antarctic bird populations (BIRDHEALTH)
Project period: 01-06-2007 until 31-12-2010
Contrasting breeding investments in a small arctic shorebird: trade-off between breeding effort and fighting disease? (abstract)
Projectleader: Prof. dr. Th. Piersma
Organisation: Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)
IPY-international: Health of Arctic and Antarctic bird populations (BIRDHEALTH)
Project period: 01-02-2007 until 31-01-2010
Arctic breeding waterfowl as vectors for avian influenza viruses (abstract)
Projectleader: Prof. dr. M.R.J. Klaassen
Organisation: Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)- Centre voor Limnology
IPY-international: Health of Arctic and Antarctic bird populations (BIRDHEALTH)
Project period: 01-01-2007 until 31-12-2010
Combining behaviour-based and epidemiological models to identify the role of Arctic breeding migratory birds in the ecology of diseases, notably Avian Influenza (abstract)
Projectleader: Prof. dr. J.A.P. Heesterbeek
Organisation: Utrecht University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
IPY-international: Health of Arctic and Antarctic bird populations (BIRDHEALTH)
Project period: 01-09-2007 until 31-08-2010