PhD studentship on alpine orchid hybridization/climate change
John Innes Centre/University of East Anglia
Interested in doing a PhD on orchids, hybridization, & climate change @JohnInnesCentre? Take a look at the link for a funded (UK/international) PhD in my lab! Deadline 12 Jan 2022, email me with any questions or to chat about the project; if you're at EAB in person in Liverpool we can chat over a coffee/snack as I will be there too. More details in the link.
Link:
https://www.aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/hybridization-and-climate-change-in-alpine-orchids/
Post-doc in large-scale responses of plants to climate change
Harvard University
A post-doctoral position is available as part of an NSF-funded study investigating plant responses to climate change in the Eastern United States. The ideal candidate will be interested in and have skills in synthesizing large amounts of phylogenetic and phylogenomic data with phenological data collected from digitized herbarium specimens through crowd- sourcing (Willis et al. 2017) and machine-learning (Davis et al. 2021). We aim to characterize large-scale patterns of phenological response (Park et al. 2018; Park et al. 2021) and to model and forecast the accompanying and associated changes in species distributions (this post-doc). The duration of the position is for one year, with a start date of 1 Feb 2022 (open to negotiation). A two-year extension beyond the additional appointment is possible, depending on performance and availability of funds from a separately funded (but related) project. The annual salary of $52,000 is based on Harvard-specific standards for post-doctoral research salaries.
Link:
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/10908
PhD Studentship (NERC funded)
Institute of Zoology & University of Reading
Helps us expand the impact and policy-relevance of one of the key global conservation assessment tools: the Living Planet Index.
Work to improve predictive estimates for countries and regions which at present have too few data to produce indices, offering new insight into key drivers of biodiversity change.
Main supervisor Robin Freeman, with Louise Rae, Mike Hoffman and Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez as co-supervisors
Deadline for applications 21 January 2021
Link:
https://research.reading.ac.uk/scenario/wp-content/uploads/sites/121/2021/11/SC2022_22-FREEMAN.pdf
2 years of post doctoral position on biomolecular analyses on carnivores
Paris Saclay Universtiy
Meso_predators in suburban agrosystems: how metabarcoding and individual biomarkers can help to understand predator predation regulation
(Deadline extented until the 17th of December)
Link:
https://listes.umontpellier.fr/sympa/d_read/evolfrance/Postdoc/Post_Doc_2years_EnviroDNA_ANR_TopPred.pdf
A researcher position, for 1 year, on spatial and environmental features of schools in Belgium
UCLouvain
The researcher will be based in Prof. Vanwambeke’s team and contribute to the BELSO funded project B@seball “Biodiversity at School Environment Benefits for ALL”. Contracts will be based on Belgian regulations, depending on prior research experience, and will include the benefits of the Belgian social security such as health insurance. This offer is also published on Euraxess https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/708081.
Objectives:
To finalise and implement a field data collection tool allowing children in participating schools to collect data on the outdoors and indoors environment. To sort, format and analyse field data describing the school environment and analyse it in combination with existing environmental datasets such as published by Belgian regions or Copernicus.
A researcher holding a MSC degree, in geography or close topics. Skills in GIS and statistical analysis are essential. Knowledge of French and Dutch and willingness to take part in the field data collection effort, in collaboration with participating schools are highly desirable.
Link:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/708081
Editor - Journal of Ecology
British Ecological Society
Salary: c. £6,700 per annum, which equates to approximately €7,700 or US$9,400
Contract: part-time, 3-year contract
Location: at the holder’s host university or organisation, based anywhere in the world
Closing date: Sunday 30 January 2022, 23:59 GMT
Interview date: Thursday 17 February 2022, via Microsoft Teams
About the Journal
Journal of Ecology is a renowned British Ecological Society journal that publishes original research papers on all aspects of the ecology of plants (including algae), in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The journal has a wide international audience, an active social media presence with over 31,000 followers on Twitter and a dedicated journal blog, and excellent publication metrics including a current Impact Factor of 6.26.
The Journal’s editorial team consists of five Editors who are supported by dedicated editorial office personnel and an international board of around 100 Associate Editors. The Senior Editors work together to determine journal strategy and to increase the reputation and quality of the Journal, in addition to making decisions on around 1000 manuscripts submitted each year. Further details about the Journal and its current editorial team can be found here.
About you
We are seeking an Editor to strengthen and complement the editorial team and to continue raising the Journal’s profile worldwide. See link for full details.
Link:
https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/about/vacancies/editor-journal-of-ecology-2/
Quantitative Ecology SIG Secretary
British Ecological Society Quantitative Ecology Group
Do you work in quantitative ecology and want to help shape the future of the SIG? If so, this role is for you!
You will be responsible for planning future events which meet the aims of the SIG:
* Support quantitative skills development for all ecologists
* Improve dissemination of new quantitative methods to their users
* Provide a forum to advance quantitative ecology in its own right
If you are interested in applying, please send a brief covering letter and CV to quantitative@britishecologicalsociety.org by Friday 21st January 2022.
Your covering letter should address the following points:
1. Experience of organising events.
2. Experience in managing budgets.
3. The kinds of ideas you have for future SIG events.
4. Ability to travel to SIG meetings and events.
5. Evidence of ability to promote the SIG within and outside of BES.
Link:
https://bes-qsig.github.io/post/sig-secretary/
PhD Studentship in Landscape Ecology (NERC Funded)
University of Birmingham
Join us at the School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham on a NERC funded PhD studentship "Balancing human and biodiversity needs from agricultural landscapes".
* Contribute to a greater understanding of the impacts of agricultural practice on biodiversity
* Increase our understanding of the links between agriculture, biodiversity and ecosystem services
* Develop cutting-edge data science, spatial analysis and remote sensing skills
Supervisors: Laura Graham, Tom Matthews, James Bullock (UK CEH), Matthew Heard (National Trust)
Link:
https://centa.ac.uk/studentship/balancing-human-biodiversity-needs-from-agricultural-landscapes/
Postdoc or PhD. in Plant Population Ecology
Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Science
We are seeking candidates for Postdoc or PhD. in Plant Population Ecology - mainly focusing on Plant-soil interactions and Plant-climate adaptations - but not exclusivelly - see our profile https://www.ibot.cas.cz/popekol/?lang=en. There are several forms of possible collaboration and duration. Drop a message and we can discuss.
Link:
https://www.ibot.cas.cz/popekol/?lang=en
PhD Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in river ecosystems
University of Leeds
see: https://panorama-dtp.ac.uk/research/biodiversity-and-ecosystem-multifunctioning-in-rivers-with-modified-flow-regimes/
Link:
https://panorama-dtp.ac.uk/research/biodiversity-and-ecosystem-multifunctioning-in-rivers-with-modified-flow-regimes/
Three months internship for undergraduate students from the US, Canada, the UK or Ireland.
University of Greifswald
Three months internship over summer for undergraduate students in Germany founded by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). If you are interested, please check here: http://tinyurl.com/nsx88em8. The project I offer is part of an experiment on drought and phenology with beech seedlings. You´ll find it (after registration) here: https://tinyurl.com/4v3h3ek2. And there are more interesting projects from our lab in Greifswald.
Link:
https://tinyurl.com/4v3h3ek2
PhD Social Ecology: Supply and demand for tree seeds from small forest owners
BOKU, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
Fully funded 3y position in the FORSEE project, which investigates the extent and role of seed supply limitations for Austria's forests of the future. Co-advised by Georg Gratzer, Mario Pesendorfer (BOKU IFE), and Silvio Schüler (BFW).
Stakeholder and small forest owner engagement in German is essential to this thesis. Experience/training in socioecological methods, incl. surveys and structured interviews desired.
Contact Mario Pesendorfer for details
PhD: Citizen science and the ecology of garden birds and mammals
Durham University
Exciting opportunity to apply for a competitive PhD studentship. Birds, mammals, camera traps, citizen science, BTO, MammalWeb. Find out more at the link below! (Deadline 7th January 2022)
Link:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/citizen-science-and-the-ecology-of-garden-birds-and-mammals/?p136743
Assistant Professor in Ecology
Durham University
Assistant Professor in Ecology
Department of Biosciences
Grade 7/8: - £34,304 - £50,296 per annum
Open-Ended/Permanent - Full Time
Contracted Hours per Week: 35
Closing Date: 17-Dec-2021, 11:59:00 PM
Link:
https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=21001397
Funded PhDs in different Ecology subdisciplines
Edge Hill University
Edge Hill University is currently advertising for combined Graduate Teaching Assistant and PhD funded projects across the disciplines of ecological science and conservation. Projects include lizard ecology, impacts of grazing, forest conservation, inveetebrate ecology.
Link:
https://jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=EHGT201-1121-N
Commissioning Editor - Functional Ecology
British Ecological Society
Functional Ecology is looking for an academic Commissioning Editor, initially focussing on Reviews. Salary: c. £1,500 per annum, which equates to approximately €1760 or US$1900 Contract: part-time, 1 year initially contract Location: at the holder’s host university or organisation, based anywhere in the world Closing datedate: Sunday 6th February 2022, 23:59 GMT.
Functional Ecology publishes high-impact papers that enable a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to the ecosystem scale. As well as primary research, we also publish ‘integrative’ or ‘synthetic’ review papers that go beyond a summary of the literature to synthesise the current state of the knowledge on a timely subject and advance the area of research. We are recruiting for a Commissioning Editor to solicit these papers, along with Perspectives or similar non-standard research papers.
We are looking for an active researcher with demonstrable editorial experience beyond their core research interest and excellent connections in the wider ecological community.
The Commissioning Editor will be responsible for: identifying topics and potential authors in collaboration with the team of Senior Editors, commissioning an agreed number of articles per year, guiding commissioned articles through the peer review process, making final decisions on commissioned and unsolicited review papers submitted to the journal, ensuring that author guidelines are appropriate and amend, if appropriate, in consultation with the team of senior editors, providing additional pre-submission guidance. For more information, contact Jenny Meyer, FE Managing Editor, or chat to Emma Sayer (previous FE Commissioning Editor).
Link:
https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/about/vacancies/commissioning-editor-functional-ecology/
Funded PhD: Can nature-based climate solutions enhance the resilience of key ecological functions in farmed landscapes?
University of Cambridge
Testing the hypothesis that ‘nature-based climate solutions’ can increase the robustness of ecological network structure, and thus the resilience of ecosystem services delivered by arthropods. Join a large interdisciplinary team of climate change and conservation scientists at Cambridge, funded by NERC to explore how to solve climate and biodiversity crises through landscape restoration. This project is directly funded, not competition-funded. I am at the conference in person if you want to discuss.
Link:
https://nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/projects/ce335-funded-through-nerc-can-nature-based-climate-solutions-enhance-resilience-key
PhDs in Agroecology at Cambridge University
University of Cambridge
Several PhD projects available, funded through the NERC C-CLEAR Doctoral Training Programme. Subjects include: impacts of regenerative agriculture on biodiversity, ecological networks, resilience to climate change; consequences of insect declines for ecological function; bumblebee conservation (in partnership with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust). Application deadline 6 January. You can also devise your own project, so come and talk to me if you have a proposal that fits our research areas.
Link:
https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/research/conservation-science/agroecology-group
PhD at Oxford on host-parasite dynamics
University of Oxford
I am looking for a quantitative mind keen to do a PhD in my lab (https://salgo.web.ox.ac.uk/about-salgo) at the Dept of Biology Oxford in host-parasite relationships. This is a fully funded NERC position in collaboration with The Tree Council. More details here: https://www.environmental-research.ox.ac.uk/article/mechanisms-and-impacts-and-of-host-parasite-relationships. Feel free to contact me to meet in person (I’ll be attending BES physically) or online.
Link:
https://www.environmental-research.ox.ac.uk/article/mechanisms-and-impacts-and-of-host-parasite-relationships
PhD at Oxford on ecological resilience
University of Oxford
I am looking for a quantitative mind keen to do a PhD in my lab (https://salgo.web.ox.ac.uk/about-salgo) at the Dept of Biology Oxford examining the role of intraspecific trait variation on ecological resilience. This is a fully funded NERC position in collaboration with St Andrew’s Botanical Garden. More details here: https://www.environmental-research.ox.ac.uk/article/the-role-of-intraspecific-trait-variation-in-shaping-the-resilience-of-natural-populations-a. Feel free to contact me to meet in person (I’ll be attending BES physically) or online.
Link:
https://www.environmental-research.ox.ac.uk/article/the-role-of-intraspecific-trait-variation-in-shaping-the-resilience-of-natural-populations-a
PhD at University of Liverpool
University of Liverpool
Tree planting and woodland creation projects which aim to benefit biodiversity, climate change mitigation and connecting people to nature are increasing in number across the UK. However, as well as many benefits, increased woodland cover may also result in certain undesirable impacts unless carefully managed. For example, woodland is among the most suitable habitat for the tick vector Ixodes ricinus, which transmits several pathogens significant for human and animal health. How tick-borne disease risk changes as woodland establishes and how this threat may be managed, particularly in areas with increasing human use and/or proximity to farmed livestock is a major open question which this research aims to answer. By selecting woodlands of different ages since woodland creation, which include fenced areas to exclude deer, this project will assess how tick-borne disease risk changes as woodlands establish and how managing deer by fencing affects this risk. The project will combine empirical fieldwork, quantitative modelling and engagement with local decision makers to understand how tick-borne disease risk changes with woodland establishment. It will also contribute to evidence on how best to manage deer within ecological restoration projects to maximise biodiversity and tree regeneration objectives whilst minimising risks of tick-borne disease.
The PhD project will be supervised by an experienced inter-disciplinary team whose research focuses on the effects of environmental change on forest ecology and tick-borne disease risk. The student will be able to develop their research project with supervisory support and expertise in vector and disease ecology, small mammal community ecology, ecological modelling, forest ecology and public health entomology. Co-supervisors from UKCEH are experienced in stakeholder framing and co-production approaches and excellent connections to end-users of the research and to policymakers exist through project partner UKHSA.
Link:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/assessing-the-changing-risk-of-tick-borne-diseases-within-woodland-creation-projects/?p136299
Lecturer/Senior Lecturewr in Bioveterinary Science
University of Lincoln
Following recognition of our excellent research in REF 2014, high student satisfaction in the 2020 NSS and strong undergraduate and postgraduate recruitment, we are seeking to make a further appointment at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level to expand our expertise in the area of Animal Health and Disease. This post will support delivery of teaching at all undergraduate levels across a range of programmes and is available on a Teaching and Research (TR) or Teaching, Scholarship and Professional Practice (TSPP) role profile. We are seeking a candidate who:
Has a strong academic profile related to Bioveterinary Science. We would particularly welcome applicants with experience in Veterinary Epidemiology, Anatomy or Physiology but applications from those reinforcing our existing strengths in Virology, Bacteriology or Immunology are also encouraged.
Will engage in pure and/or applied research or contribute significant teaching and Scholarship expertise which will complement existing strengths within the School.
Is an excellent communicator who will complement the School’s existing teaching. In particular, we are seeking someone who will support teaching both in specialist subject modules and across the wider life science curriculum.
Will work closely with other members of staff within the School of Life Sciences as well as external partners
Working with us, you will enjoy the benefits of newly refurbished and exceptionally well equipped research facilities and benefit from a stimulating, interdisciplinary and collegiate environment. We support excellence in research and teaching and you will be part of a team that provides a popular portfolio of qualifications at BSc, MSc and PhD level. You will be based in the heart of a thriving, safe and friendly city.
Link:
https://jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=COS076E
Fully funded PhD studentship (NERC GW4+ DTP)
PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY
Communication amongst humans allows us to live together in societies. Breakdowns in communication can lead to conflicts and a breakdown of society's structures. However, communication is not limited to humans. Chemical cues and signals, collectively called infochemicals, are widely used by organisms living on land and sea to communicate between individuals within a species or between different species. For example, albatrosses use a simple chemical cue called DMS (dimethyl sulphide) to track highly productive areas where they forage on zooplankton, squid, fish, and even other birds!
We know from terrestrial ecosystems that climate change stressors such as warming can alter the production and composition of infochemicals with profound negative effects on natural ecosystems. Although this chemical communication currently works well in the ocean, we do not know how marine organisms will communicate under climate change!
Phytoplankton, the producers of 50% oxygen we breathe, also use infochemicals to ‘talk’ to other organisms like microbes, including pathogens such as Vibrio which can be either deterred or attracted towards phytoplankton. Several Vibrio species are human pathogens known to cause waterborne diseases, e.g. Vibrio cholerae responsible for cholera. Climate change is predicted to escalate this problem, posing increased threat to human health.
In this project you will conduct a novel set of experiments underpinning phytoplankton-Vibrio relationships mediated by infochemicals, and explore how climate change induced stressors such as temperature, salinity and precipitation might change phytoplankton-Vibrio interactions. Results will enable us to understand dynamics of phytoplankton-pathogenic marine bacteria interaction, in particular microbes such as Vibrios that represent an emerging disease threat in Europe and other higher latitudes, driven by climate change.
Link:
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/award/?id=4297
PhD: Identifying and protecting coral reef adaptive potential
University of Leeds
I am looking for a person with a passion for coral reef conservation, with strong skills in quantitative and spatial ecology. Being a diver is a plus. Partnered with the Coral Reef Alliance and The Nature Conservancy with time spent in the Caribbean. Find me at BES in person or email!
Maria Beger
Link:
https://panorama-dtp.ac.uk/research/identifying-and-protecting-coral-reef-adaptive-potential/
Post-doc: How do adaptations that reduce interspecific interference affect range expansion.
Durham University
I am searching for a postdoc with an interest in population genomics and/or historical demography to join a NSF/NERC-funded project tackling the question of how adaptations that reduce interspecific interference affect range expansion.
The focal species, Hetaerina titia, varies in wing coloration both seasonally and geographically, and wing colour determines the frequency and intensity of territorial and reproductive interactions between H. titia and other sympatric Hetaerina species. Taking advantage of among-population variation in wing colour, we will use genomic approaches to understand how behavioural interference between species influences range dynamics.
The successful applicant will be expected to take a leadership role in the design and management of the genomic analyses (from library prep to analyses) on existing samples to compare rates of diversification and historical demography among H. titia populations and between H. titia and four congeners to differentiate between several possible historical range expansion scenarios
Link:
http://jonathanpdrury.com/opportunities.html
Research Officer in Animal Movement and Population Ecology
Bangor University
The successful (post-doctoral) candidate will be responsible for assisting with tag deployments (and retrievals) on Manx shearwaters during two summer field seasons, integrating oceanographic, wind and prey data in movement models (HMMs), and construct a spatially explicit dynamic energy budget individual-based model (DEB-IBM).
Link:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CLD828/research-officer-in-animal-movement-and-population-ecology
2 x Post Docs in Computational Ecology - Multiple Stressors and Food Webs
The University of Sheffield
The Beckerman Lab will be advertising 2 x post-docs in the new year.
Funded by NERC-UKRI, the posts will centre around evaluating how multiple simultaneous threats to ecological communities combine to act across multiple ecological scales.
One post doc will focus mostly on using mathematical models to generate predictions and suits someone with programming/mathematical modelling experience and ecological theory.
The other will focus mostly on analysing large data sets and experimental data to evaluate assumptions and predictions in and from the models and suits someone with experience in statistical modelling and ecological theory.
If you are interested, please contact Prof. Andrew Beckerman at the meeting or after.
Link:
https://andbeck.github.io/beckslab/
Ecological modelling postdoc (closing today)
SLU
Please see description in link
Link:
https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/jobs-vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=5647&rmlang=UK
PhD in DNA, drones and acoustics
Lancaster university
Seeking talented student with interest in developing analytical skills across multiple data streams. Please see further description in link. Happy to discuss at EAB2021 or by email
Link:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/recon-remote-assessment-of-ecological-condition/?p136355
Post doc in phylogenetic comparative methods
University of Sheffield
I am soon going to advertise a job developing new comparative methods. Ideally I am looking for someone with programming experience. If you would like to chat, or for me to send the advert when it comes out, let me know.
Link:
None
Fully funded PhD: Drivers of host-vector metapopulation dynamics
University of Aberdeen (and University of St Andrews)
EASTBIO: Drivers of pathogen dynamics and genetic diversity in natural host-vector populations
This project will use new and archived samples from water vole metapopulations to examine the generation and dynamics of Bartonella diversity. Studies over the last 20 years provide unparalleled knowledge of the metapopulation dynamics (e.g. extinction-recolonisation), as well as the distribution and abundance of alternative host and vector species.
Specifically, you will:
- quantify spatio-temporal patterns of intraspecific diversity for the three Bartonella species detected in this system using whole genome sequencing approaches, and explore phenotypic properties of different genotypes (host and vector specificity).
- determine how the spatial-temporal dynamics of different Bartonella species are influenced by e.g. host dispersal patterns, population connectivity, distribution of alternative hosts and coinfection.
Link:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/eastbio-drivers-of-pathogen-dynamics-and-genetic-diversity-in-natural-host-vector-populations/?p135473
Macroecology postdoc (short term)
UKCEH
I'm looking for someone with good modelling skills to join our team for 6-12 months from Feb 2022. Please get in touch via the conference app if interested in discussing further.
PhD (NERC ONE Planet DTP) Understanding and mitigating the impacts of light pollution on nocturnal pollination processes in the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot (OP2213)
Newcastle University
Moths are important but overlooked pollinators. There is growing evidence that ALAN affects moth-pollination interactions in northern Europe (e.g. Macgregor et al. 2017, 2019). The impacts of ALAN on ecosystem functioning are likely to be greater in the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot, where research shows over 70% of caught moths in Portugal carry pollen, and in large amounts (Banza et al. 2019).
Most of southern Iberia has undergone significant land-use changes in recent decades, mostly driven by tourism-led urbanisation resulting in a significant increase in street-lighting. It is unclear how ALAN affects nocturnal insects nor moth pollen-transport networks in these biodiverse areas where seasonal dynamics play an important role (Banza et al. 2019).
This project will disentangle the effects of land-use change and ALAN on ecological processes using a network approach. Using DNA-metabarcoding, pollen transport networks will be constructed from moths caught in lit and unlit areas in SW Portugal across a land-use gradient. Light management/technology mitigation (e.g. LED) will be tested using experimental lighting rigs. Long-term moth population trends in the Algarve will be examined using A Rocha Portugal’s (ARP) unique light-trapping dataset.
Fieldwork will be conducted in SW Portugal and will benefit from access to ARP reference libraries and datasets from the region. Additional support will be provided by the Centre for Functional Ecology, University of Coimbra (UoC). Skills gained as part of the training include DNA-metabarcoding (NCL) and trait-based network analysis (NU, NCL & CEH), taxonomy and systematics (ARP, UoC), modelling, including long-term datasets (CEH).
Funding Notes
This project is part of the NERC ONE Planet DTP. Each of our studentship awards include 3.5 years of fees (Home/EU), an annual living allowance (£15,650) and a Research Training Support Grant (for travel, consumables, etc).
Home and International applicants are welcome
Link:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/understanding-and-mitigating-the-impacts-of-light-pollution-on-nocturnal-pollination-processes-in-the-mediterranean-biodiversity-hotspot-op2213/?p138228
Post doc in bee behaviour
University of Sussex
Hi everyone, no advert yet but early next year I will be recruiting a post-doc as part of my UKRI FLF grant investigating the drivers of pollen foraging behaviour in bees. The role will involve using lab and field based assays of behaviour to test how bees assess pollen quality (using sensory cues vs. handling costs) in social and solitary bees, and how this impacts on plant-pollinator interactions. You will work alongside a newly appointed PhD student, and another post-doc using electrophysiology to measure sensory responses to pollen.
Check out my lab website for more info or shoot me an email/message if you'd like to chat at person at the conference.
Link:
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/labs/nicholls-lab/
Fully funded PhD on The Evolution of Maternal Effects in Daphnia
Uni. Of Liverpool
Maternal effects arise when the environment or phenotype of the mother influences the phenotype of her offspring. Theory predicts that when environments are heterogeneous and predictable parents should evolve the capacity to alter the phenotypes of their offspring in an adaptive manner. Yet empirical support for the existence of adaptive maternal effects is weak. This may be because studies of maternal effects often fail to quantify the predictability of offspring environments. Moroever, they are often conducted in laboratories where environmental cues are unnatural, and there is no understanding of how the traits determining offspring fitness change in different environments.
The main aim of this project is to test theory underpinning the evolution of maternal effects in a more natural setting. Determining whether adaptive transgenerational plasticity exists is important because theory predicts it plays a key role in allowing populations to adapt to rapid environmental change. You will use 3 years of environmental monitoring data collected from 42 experimental mesocosms to quantify the predictability of offspring environment and how it changes across seasons. Environment chambers and individual field cages will be used to manipulate food, temperature and photoperiod cues and study the effect that it has on maternal effects and their fitness consequences. Raman spectroscopy will be used to compare the effect that complex maternal environments have on the provisioning of eggs laid by genetically identical mothers. Finally you will use our programmable mesocosm facility and an experimental evolution approach to manipulate environmental predictability and study its effect on the evolution of maternal effects in replicated populations.
Deadline Jan 14th
Feel free to contact Dr Stew Plaistow at the meeting or by email for more info.
Link:
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/studentships/maternal-effects-daphnia/
PhD (ARIES DTP): https://www.aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/understanding-the-role-of-different-types-of-conservation-area-in-meeting-global-biodiversity-protection-targets/
DICE, University of Kent
Conservation areas are vital for conserving nature but research on their effectiveness typically only focuses on state-managed protected areas. This is changing, with case-studies showing that privately- and community-managed conservation areas can play a key role. However, we lack spatial data (e.g., accurate locations, boundaries) on these non-state conservation areas, so cannot fully understand how they contribute to conserving global biodiversity. Collecting such data for every country is a long-term process, so DICE-led research has developed a new sampling methodology based on a representative subset of countries. This studentship will test and refine this new approach, collecting additional data and testing hypotheses to better understand how different types of conservation area help meet global targets for landscape connectivity and biodiversity representation.
This is a fully funded PhD studentship open to UK and international candidates based at DICE (Canterbury, UK), Conservation International (Washington DC, USA) and UNEP-WCMC (Cambridge, UK). The supervisory team are Professor Bob Smith (DICE, University of Kent), Professor Zoe Davies (DICE, University of Kent), Dr Rachel Golden Kroner (Conservation International) and Dr Cleo Cunningham (UNEP-WCMC).
Link:
https://www.aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/understanding-the-role-of-different-types-of-conservation-area-in-meeting-global-biodiversity-protection-targets/
PhD on community ecologi in the high Arctic
Biodiversity Research institute, Spanish National Research Council
I am looking for a motivated PhD candidate for a project on Arctic terrestrial ecology, focusing on community regulation and trophic interactions including vascular plants, arthropods, birds and mammals on northern Greenland. I am based at the Biodiversity Research Institute in Asturias, northern Spain (https://www.unioviedo.es/IMIB/en/dalerum-fredrik/), but this is a close collaboration with The Autonomous University of Barcelona and Stockholm University. Project funding is secured but student support will have to be applied for from open Asturian and Spanish competitions. I am not attending BES in person this year, but drop me an e-mail if interested or have any questions.
Link:
https://www.unioviedo.es/IMIB/en/dalerum-fredrik/
PhD opportunity in Wollongong, Australia (fully funded) - Are novel diets reshaping wildlife microbiomes and resilience?
University of Wollongong
Please email me if you are interested in undertaking PhD research into the mechanisms through which habitat loss can alter wildlife resilience and disease susceptibility. This position is as part of an ARC-funded project and comes with a full scholarship for tuition and living expenses, as well as project funding for extensive fieldwork and genomic analyses.
NERC IAPETUS PhD: Assessing the environmental and ecological drives of interannual variability in the life histories and population dynamics of icefishes (Family Channichthyidae) around S Georgia
Newcastle University
The main objectives of this project are to quantify key life history processes, demographic properties and resource partitioning in the icefishes C. gunnari, C. aceratus and P. georgianus on the South Georgia and Shag Rocks continental shelves. Given the differences in ecological niches for these species, it is expected that they will respond differently to fluctuating environmental conditions. At present, there are management measures in place which limit the total biomass caught as target or by-catch in the commercial fisheries, but further information is required at the regional scale to help inform the spatial management and maintain viable populations to help mitigate against future warming. Key questions which need to be addressed include:
1) identify potential spawning locations, timings and nursery grounds and assess whether these are linked to environmental or bathymetric features;
2) assess the environmental drivers of interannual variability in recruitment, hatching times and growth rates of larvae;
3) assess the distribution of life history stages around the island and how they vary between and within years;
4) quantify resource partitioning among life history stages of the different species.
Supervisory team are: Will Reid, Phil Hollyman, Martin Collins and Jason Newton
Link:
https://www.iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/assessing-the-environmental-and-ecological-drives-of-interannual-variability-in-the-life-histories-and-population-dynamics-of-icefishes-family-channichthyidae-around-the-sub-antarctic-island-of-sout/
NERC IAPETUS PhD: Importance of trophodynamics and functional traits in the structure of macrobenthic Southern Ocean shelf communities under methane seepage influence
British Antarctic Survey
The proposed work will investigate the community composition, functional traits and trophodynamics of benthic fauna from hydrocarbon and carbon enriched habitats in the SO, which are hypothesised or known to be influenced by methane seepage. The research will use a combination of the biogeochemical techniques (e.g. stable isotope and lipid analyses) to elucidate the food source of benthic fauna and establish the degree of dependence on methane sources; morphological analysis to identify species and establish potential functional traits; and statistical analysis to understand the response of the benthic communities to varying sediment geochemical conditions. There will be an emphasis on understanding the role of bivalves as potential indicator species of hydrocarbon- and carbon-enriched habitats in the SO, which will lead to a biogeographical analysis and the identification of potential future exploration sites.
Supervisory team are Katrin Linse, Will Reid, Phil Hollyman, Jason Newton
Link:
https://www.iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships/importance-of-trophodynamics-and-functional-traits-in-the-structure-of-macrobenthic-southern-ocean-shelf-communities-under-methane-seepage-influence/
Postdoc in France - data analyses on biological invasions
University Paris Saclay
The postdoctoral researcher will work in the InvaCost project, on the InvaCost project, with InvaCost collaborators. InvaCost is an international and interdisciplinary research project seeking to assess, extrapolate and forecast the economic costs of biological invasions. She or he will thus work InvaCost, eat InvaCost, dream InvaCost. All info here: www.invacost.fr
The ad is here: https://www.biodiversitydynamics.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/postdoc-position-2022.pdf
Our team website: https://www.biodiversitydynamics.fr/
Link:
http://invacost.fr/en/le-labo-en/postdoc-invacost/
Postdoctoral Fellow with the topic Plant diversity on shore meadows along the Baltic Coast
Postdoc on Plant diversity on shore meadows along the Baltic Coast
Physical Geography at Stockholm University
The offical link will be posted within the week. Follow me on Twitter where I will post it.@SAOCousins
The position involves research on modelling past distribution on coastal meadows and how sea level changes might affect them in the future. It will involve geographical analysis of historical data, topography and future sea level projection, and to modell how habitat patterns might plant biodiversity patterns at local and regional scales. You are expected to take the lead on writing two scientific papers. Plant inventories of coastal meadows have been carried out 2021
The position will be part of a FORMAS financed project Coastal meadows – habitats on the move. Coastal meadows along the Baltic coast are a result of land uplift and grazing. In the past there were vast areas of well-connected coastal meadow but today only a fraction remain, grazed by livestock. Today they are threatened by climate change and only a fraction remains. Remnants of coastal meadows are important for biodiversity, especially for many red-listed birds, plants and insects but also for recreation. Despite efforts to restore coastal meadows threats of future sea-level rise have created new challenges. Coastal meadows will become smaller and more isolated when they are squeezed between rising sea levels and other land-covers in the near future. One objective is together with stakeholders identify suitable areas for restoration, and estimate how much is needed to benefit biodiversity and human society in the future, to secure the goals of EU habitat directive for coastal meadows.
project advisor
Cornwall Council
Community engagement in urban spaces improved for biodiversity - relatively short term contract, great team
Link:
http://d.rfer.us/CORNWALLuG81tY
Senior researcher in aquatic ecology
Norwegian Institute for Water Research
NIVA’s section for nature-based solutions and aquatic ecology is looking to expand its team of researchers. We wish to recruit a senior researcher, with experience in applied aquatic ecology (focusing on freshwaters) including e.g. restoration and nature-based solutions. You should have experience and willingness to work transdisciplinary, both nationally and internationally. You will join a section of currently 11 researchers, PhD students and research assistants, and will also cooperate with researchers across NIVA. You will be part of a highly skilled and interdisciplinary working environment. The position will report to the Research Manager of NIVA’s nature-based solutions and aquatic ecology section. The workplace will be at NIVA's head office in Oslo.
Link:
https://www.niva.no/en
Researcher in aquatic ecology
Norwegian Institute for Water Research
NIVAs section for nature-based solutions and aquatic ecology is looking to expand its team of researchers. We are in this regard looking to recruit a researcher with experience in applied aquatic ecology (focusing on freshwaters) including experience e.g., related to restoration, nature-based solutions, but you should be willing to work transdisciplinary. You will join a section of currently 11 researchers, PhD students and research assistants, and will be expected also to cooperate with researchers across NIVA. You will be part of a highly skilled and interdisciplinary environment. The position will report to the Research Manager of NIVA’s Nature-based solutions and aquatic ecology.
Link:
https://www.niva.no/en
2 post-docs and research/field technician - animal movement and infection
University of Edinburgh
Hi Everyone,
Just to flag we will be advertising a couple of jobs in the New Year on a new NERC grant 'A direct test of the impact of infection on animal migration: consequences for parasite and host populations'.
http://gotw.nerc.ac.uk/list_full.asp?pcode=NE%2FV001779%2F1
It will combine field experiments with modelling of long-term individual based-data in seabirds. Jobs based in Edinburgh and Aberdeen but with colleagues based in UK, Norway and US. If you'd like to be notified when jobs are advertised you can drop me an email (e.cunningham@ed.ac.uk) and we'll keep you posted.
All the best, Emma
Link:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/groups/cunningham
Graduate Environmental Consultant
Bidwells
Bidwells are looking for a new Environmental Graduate or Specialist to join our busy Rural team in Cambridge. This is an exciting opportunity to make significant contributions to our Natural Capital and Biodiversity Net Gain service lines, working on the creation of well managed natural habitats that provide significant environmental and social benefits.
The Rural team in Bidwells manages, consults and offers strategic advice on over 1 million acres of farmland and estates across the country, working with some of the UK’s top-performing rural businesses including individuals, trusts, colleges, charities and companies.
Please follow the link to the job advert for more information and to apply.
Link:
https://bidwells.livevacancies.co.uk/#/job/details/264
Senior Computer Biologist
Tree of Life Programme, Sanger Institute
18 month contract for a computational biologist with an interest in genomics for our largescale biodiversity projects. For full details, please see link
https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk/vacancy/senior-computer-biologist-genome-curation-tree-of-life-466720.html
Link:
https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk/vacancy/senior-computer-biologist-genome-curation-tree-of-life-466720.html
PhD Opportunity - FROM UNDER THE WATER LILIES: ASSESSING THE IMPORTANCE OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM PONDS
UKCEH/ CENTA DTP
PhD- UKCEH with National Trust via Centa2 DTP
The project aims to produce an empirically-based estimate of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of U.K. ponds, understanding of controls on these emissions, and guidelines for pond management towards GHG emission mitigation.
It will employ an extensive programme of field measurements using state of the art in situ analysers providing data at sub-daily resolution, combined with field surveys of ecosystem components, laboratory-based biogeochemical analyses, and experimental manipulations
using mesocosms.
The project offers the opportunity to study and work across the UK at diverse sites and institutions, with diverse stakeholder engagement, and will inform the development of
carbon offsetting and climate change mitigation schemes, supporting UK Government policy
on land-management
Link:
https://centa.ac.uk/studentship/from-under-the-water-lilies-assessing-the-importance-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-ponds/
PhD opportunity, fully funded, microbial ecology and yield modelling in agroecosystems
University of York
Agroecosystems project - what’s the effect of ectomycorrhizal vs arbuscular mycorrhizal trees on crop yield in intercropping systems?
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/acce-dtp-fully-funded-project-tree-species-choice-in-agroforestry-systems-do-mycorrhizal-associations-affect-soil-microbiomes-and-crop-yields/?p136257
Link:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/acce-dtp-fully-funded-project-tree-species-choice-in-agroforestry-systems-do-mycorrhizal-associations-affect-soil-microbiomes-and-crop-yields/?p136257
Committee member for Conservation Ecology SIG
BES Conservation Ecology Special Interest Group
We would love to recruit a new committee member, or two, to support us with our social media and/or to be an early career rep. We are also open to the passions and skills each individual might like to bring to the role. Please get in touch if you'd like to know more about the Special Interest Group or the roles.
Link:
www.besconservation.wordpress.com
