prof. dr. ir. C. (Chris) Smit
Programme Director of the MSc Ecology & Evolution Programme. Involved in the following BSc & MSc courses (Ecology and Evolution):
- BSc: Ecological Interactions
- BSc: Research Skills Ecology & Evolution (former Flora & Fauna course) (coordinator)
- BSc: Research Project
- MSc: Conservation Ecology Practices (coordinator)
Titles of MSc research projects in my team since 2020. Please contact me ( c.smit@rug.nl ) when interested in these or related themes for your MSc project:
- Tom Tijsma: “Between Predator and Prey: Understanding novel Wolf-Galloway interactions in a Dutch Rewilding Area”, 2024
- Thijs Strik: “Phenology of Galapagos endemic dicots”, 2024
- Pyter Bootsma: "Endozoochory by the Lesser Antillean iguana", 2024.
- Farah Kootstra: “Sanitary felling of bark beetle infested trees and biodiversity in Slovenian forests”, 2023
- Fanny Spikman: “Quantification of impacts of Sayaguesa cattle on woody recruitment in the Drents-Friese Wold”, 2023.
- Charel de Jager: “Natural tree recruitment along a chronosequence of bark-beetle infested Norway spruce stands in Hart van Drenthe”, 2023.
- Charlie Turlier: “GPS tracking and camera trapping domestic cats around a meadowbird breeding area”, 2023.
- Hilbert de Groot: “Estimating the abundance and predicting distribution of feral cats Schiermonnikoog” , 2022.
- Walter di Nicola: “Human-mediated” impact of ungulates on the carbon stocks of the Veluwe forest (Gelderland, The Netherlands) ”, 2022
- Jagua Lamfers: "Home range analysis through domestic cat roaming behavior on Schiermonnikoog and public perception on domestic cats", 2022
- Hilbert de Groot: “Estimating the abundance and predicting distribution of feral cats Schiermonnikoog”, 2022
- Pieter Otte: “Seasonal camouflage mismatch in winter habitat in relation to predation rates”, 2022
- Marije Jousma: “Fine-scale distribution of the bioturbating amphipod Orchestia gammarellus in a patchy cattle-grazed salt marsh ” Jan 2022
- Jurre Terpstra: “The effects of water availability on growth of B.hybridum facilitated and unfacilitated subpopulations”, Oct 2021
- Patrick Baan: “Variability in morphology of plants and seed characteristics of Acacia caven between populations from Chile and Argentina, Oct 2021
- Annemarie van Olst: “Recreation influences deer behavior and browsing more than returning wolves; A field study at the Veluwe, the Netherlands”, Oct 2021
- James Skinkis: “The effect of mycorrhizal fungi and soil pH on the performance of common juniper, Juniperus communis”. June 2021.
- Heleen Jansen: “How ‘patches of fear’ affect red deer and wild boar behaviour; a spatial analysis”, Jan 2021
- Tirza Moerman: “The interplay between grazing and elevation affected soil fauna abundance in Lauwersmeer” March 2021
- Josefien Tankink: “The influence of variation in human disturbance on antipredator behaviour in ungulates”. March 2021.
- Krissie van den Heuvel: “Impacts of wolves and humans on ungulates at the Veluwe”. July 2021.
- Jagua Lamfers: “Domestic cats at Schiermonnikoog”. March 2020
- Denise Roffel SBP internship, Invasieve exoten in Noord-Nederlandse moerassystemen: beheer, beleid en bestrijding. July 2020
- Maaike van Bodegom SBP internship, water holding capacity and peat building in the Onlanden. Oct 2020
- Bernhard Budin: “Juniper fitness and Aluminum toxicity” May 2020
- Esther van Swankhuizen: “Behavioural responses of deer to tree logs in a human dominated area” April 2020
- Joe Churchill: “What makes an ecosystem tick? How two invertebrates respond to altered ungulate behavior through human disturbance in the landscape of fear ticks and fear” Jan 2020