We have a 2-year postdoc position based at the Department of Ecology at SLU here in Uppsala, some details below. Please feel free to forward to any suitable applicants or networks. The same info, plus a link to the application system can be found here: https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/jobs-vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=4704&rmlang=UK
Many thanks,
Alistair
Duties
We are looking for a postdoc to work a new research project aiming to understand the interacting effects of changes in climate and land use on the diversity and distributions of multiple taxa. Analysing historical and recent observation data of birds, butterflies and plants together with matching climate and land-use data, we aim to understand how biodiversity change relates to the interactions of global change drivers over longer (>50 years) and shorter (10-20 years) time periods. Using data from both Sweden and Great Britain, the postdoc will work towards understanding how contrasting trajectories of land use may have mediated climate-driven distributional changes in different ways, for example in terms of habitat availability and microclimatic buffering. The position will be based at the Department of Ecology, SLU, while project partners also include the Swedish Species Information Centre, as well as in the University of Northumbria, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and others in the UK.
Qualifications
Applicants must have a PhD in ecology or other related or relevant discipline. Because postdoctoral appointments are career-developing positions for junior researchers, we are primarily looking for candidates with a doctoral degree that is preferrably within 3 years of the application date. Other required qualifications include proven research productivity, with work published in the peer-reviewed literature. Although the candidate must be able to work independently, the collaborative nature of the project demands excellent communication skills. It is a merit to have confidence and experience with working with GIS, and using advanced statistical methods to analyse opportunistic species data, climate data and/or other large and complex data sets in R or another coding environment.
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Alistair Auffret
Associate Senior Lecturer in Landscape Ecology
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Department of Ecology
Box 7044, 750 07 Uppsala
Visiting address: Ulls väg 16
alistair.auffret@slu.se
Alistair Auffret
Associate Senior Lecturer in Landscape Ecology
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Department of Ecology
Box 7044, 750 07 Uppsala
Visiting address: Ulls väg 16
alistair.auffret@slu.se
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