Wageningen University and Research Centre
Job description
You will carry out an NWO-funded research project on conditionality of plant-animal interactions, a collaboration of two WU groups with RUG, NIOO and the University of Arizona. You will study how interactions between Wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) and Pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) at the Veluwe, the Netherlands, are affected by food abundance and the presence of a third species, Wild boar (Sus scrofa). The central hypothesis is that food competition changes the hoarding behaviour of the mice in favour of oak dispersal and recruitment. Read the rest of this entry »
