Evolutionary Biology and Ecology

Overview courses

• Ecosystem Modelling

  Translates acquired understanding of ecosystems, climate and carbon cycling into an ecosystem model to quantify current ecological processes as well as to project these into the future.

• Environmental Toxicology

  Offers an in depth insight into the recognition, analysis and prediction of environmental and human health problems caused by toxic chemicals.
   

• Sustainable Landscape Challenges

  Develops a management plan for a Dutch landscape by integrating the challenges posed by climate change, biodiversity loss, nitrogen deposition, salinization, and soil subsidence in line with existing (inter)national legislation.   

• Behavioural Biology

  Studies animal behaviours from their developmental, functional and mechanistic angles, to understand how behaviours evolve and allow animals to adapt to novel environments. 

• Evolutionary Genetics

  Explores the mechanisms and consequences of genome evolution in prokaryotes and eukaryotes to examine how genotypic and phenotypic variation arise and are maintained in viruses, microorganisms, and multicellular organisms.