Presentation ECOSPHERE Master thesis subjects
Topics in the field of Physiological and molecular mechanisms of stress and toxicity: acclimatisation and homeostasis
- Chemical emissions from offshore wind farms: assessing impacts on marine organisms
- Understanding the endocrine disruptive effects of PFAS, present in complex environmental mixtures, on zebrafish embryos
- Are swimming performance tests a good predictor for spontaneous swimming activity in fish?
- Can the capacity for phenotypic plasticity in temperature tolerance explain Northward migration of Hermit crabs?
- Effects of single and mixture exposures on freshwater macroinvertebrates
Topics in the field of Bioavailability and accumulation of micro- and macro-contaminants
- Concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in feathers of aquatic birds at Blokkersdijk and relationships with environmental concentrations
- Effects of the chemical structure of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on the bioaccumulation and toxicity to terrestrial and aquatic plants and invertebrates
- Effect of plant characteristics on the bioaccumulation of PFAS in terrestrial plants – for phytoremediation purposes
- Effect of soil conditioners on bioavailability of metals from soil to plants
- Effect of veterinary anthelmintic compounds on dung beetle diversity in horses
- Metals in mushrooms at different distances from a pollution source
- Bioaccumulation and effects in caged animals exposed in rivers
Topics in the field of Water and Soil Quality Risk Assessment
- Mixture toxicity of psychoactive drugs and their transformation products on single-celled model organisms
- Microalgal biostimulants in agriculture: A source of soil nutrients and conditioning, impact on soil contaminants with focus on mobility and bioavailability
- Assessing Ecological Risks of Chemical Mixtures: A Mesocosm Approach
Topics in the field of Macro- and micronutrients for healthy ecosystems
Topics in the field of Integrated Water Management
- Algae facilitated vegetation establishment in tidal marshes
- Impact of global change and sea level rise on coastal marsh sustainability: a modelling study
- Investigating Suspended Particulate Matter dynamics along the Scheldt–North Sea continuum
- Long-term effects of soil modifications on water quality: a mesocosm study near Kruibeke
Conservation and Restoration
Topics in cooperation with Meise Botanic Garden
- Refining of the ecological preferences of diatoms based on historic and recent collections
- The diversity of aquatic and moss-inhabiting diatom communities in the Westfjords, northern Iceland
- Biodiversity of diatom and macro-invertebrate communities in a formerly impacted nature reserve
- Biogeochemical and ecological characterization of natural and artificial waterbodies in Meise Botanic Garden