Two PhDs positions on Modelling Biodiversity of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems
Application deadline: 15 May 2016 Responsibilities Which (anthropogenic) factors determine species distributions and biodiversity? And what are the consequences of shifts in species distributions and changes in species persistence and biodiversity for ecosystem functioning? The Department of Environmental Science is looking for two PhD candidates to answer these questions by developing correlative and […]
PhD position in “Spatial and Temporal Scaling of Biodiversity and Environment”
A PhD position is open in the highly collaborative Research Training Group “Spatial and Temporal Scaling of Biodiversity and Environment”. Environmental conditions and biodiversity both vary across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales and are tightly connected (Stein & Kreft, Biological Reviews). Understanding how environmental conditions and heterogeneity affect the distributions of individuals and […]
PhD position in “Conservation of biological diversity and ecological functions in vanilla landscapes in NE Madagascar”
The position will be based in the Department of Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography at the University of Göttingen. The PhD topic is “Conservation of biological diversity and ecological functions in vanilla landscapes in NE Madagascar”. The PhD candidate is supposed to (1) collect spatial information for the study region (e.g. land cover, species distributions, socioeconomic […]
Job opportunity: Director – Cape Eleuthera Institute, Bahamas
Cape Eleuthera Institute (www.ceibahamas.org) is seeking a Director to lead all research initiatives, management, development, and future expansion of this established research station with numerous ongoing projects and a team of staff, interns and graduate students. The institute, founded in 2006, is based at the The Island School (www.islandschool.org) campus situated on Cape Eleuthera, Eleuthera, […]