Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Fwd: Landscape2021 now ONLINE - Call for papers open

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Subject: Landscape2021 now ONLINE - Call for papers open
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 10:03:11 +0000
From: Landscape2021 <Landscape2021@zalf.de>
To: Landscape2021 <Landscape2021@zalf.de>



Dear colleagues,

Due to the still uncertain COVID-19 development, the *Landscape 2021* *-
Diversity for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture,* *September 20-22,
2021,*will be held as an *_ONLINE CONFERECE_.*

*The call for papers and posters **is open until March 1^st , 2021.***

*The conference is organised by the***Leibniz Centre for Agricultural
Landscape Research (ZALF).

More information is available at: landscape2021.org
<http://landscape2021.org>

We look forward to your contributions and would appreciate if you could
further disseminate the announcement among your networks.

Kind regards,

*Conference Chairs: *

Prof. Frank Ewert, Scientific Director, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural
Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany

Prof. Peter Feindt, Professor of Agricultural and Food Policy, Albrecht
Daniel Thaer Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

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Landscape 2021 - Conference Secretariat

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research

Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany

Phone: ++49 (0)33 432-82 410

landscape2021@zalf.de <mailto:landscape2021@zalf.de>

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*Landscape 2021: Diversification for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture*

20-22 September 2021, Berlin

www.landscape2021.org <http://www.landscape2021.org>

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Scientific Director: Prof. Dr. Frank Ewert

Administrative Director: Cornelia Rosenberg

Court at which the institute is registered: Amtsgericht Frankfurt/Oder

Register Number: VR 3535

VAT-ID: DE811417184

Monday, February 8, 2021

Fwd: Postdoc position -- improving the identifiability of community dynamics models


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Subject: Fwd: Postdoc position -- improving the identifiability of community dynamics models
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 11:25:56 +0100
From: Frederic Barraquand <frederic.barraquand@u-bordeaux.fr>



Dear colleagues,

I hope you are all well and wish you a fruitful (and hopefully quieter!) new year. I have a postdoc offer (pdf attached, 2.5 years) at the interface between statistics and population/community dynamics, I'd be grateful if you could forward it to potential candidates if you know any that could be interested.

I don't have a specific profile in mind for the position, so depending on the postdoc's background and interests, there are opportunities to work either on statistical aspects (e.g. properties of estimators, proofs of identifiability etc.) or more applied statistical modelling (e.g. model fitting in Jags/Stan on real or simulated data).

All the best,

Fred

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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Two PhD-scholarships on Forestry effects on biodiversity, carbon stocks and ecological processes in mature boreal forests

The EcoForest project (“Forestry effects on biodiversity, carbon stocks and ecological processes in mature boreal forests”) seeks to better understand the long-term effects of clear-cutting on forest biodiversity, carbon stocks, as well as ecological functions, in order to guide future forest management planning. The project involves partners from Norwegian University of Life Sciences, University of Oslo, Research Institutes (NIBIO and NINA), the forestry sector and NGOs. We are recruiting four PhD-students and two of these will be based at NMBU

 

The first will explore the importance of forestry for carbon stocks and dynamics?

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/200248/phd-scholarship-in-forest-ecology

 

The second will explore the importance of forestry for biodiversity and ecosystem functions?

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/200260/phd-scholarship-within-forest-ecology

 

 

Johan Asplund

Førsteamanuensis, skogøkologi

Associate Professor, Forest Ecology

 

Norges miljø- og biovitenskaplige universitet

Norwegian University of Life Sciences

 

Fakultet for miljøvitenskap og naturforvaltning

Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management

 

1432 Ås, Norway.

http://www.nmbu.no/emp/johan.asplund

 

FW: Phd-opportunity in forest ecology

 

 

From: Tone Birkemoe <tone.birkemoe@nmbu.no>
Sent: den 3 februari 2021 14:00
To: Cornelissen, J.H.C. <j.h.c.cornelissen@vu.nl>; Katrine Borgå <katrine.borga@ibv.uio.no>; Heidi Sjursen Konestabo <h.s.konestabo@ub.uio.no>; Ims Rolf Anker (rolf.ims@uit.no) <rolf.ims@uit.no>; John-Arvid Grytnes <jon.grytnes@uib.no>; Anders Nielsen <anders.nielsen@nibio.no>; Jan Bengtsson <Jan.Bengtsson@slu.se>; Therese Löfroth <therese.lofroth@slu.se>; Vigdis Vandvik <Vigdis.Vandvik@uib.no>; michael.d.ulyshen@usda.gov; Müller Dr., Jörg (NPV-BW <Joerg.Mueller@npv-bw.bayern.de>; Seibold, Sebastian <sebastian.seibold@tum.de>; Tord Snäll <Tord.Snall@slu.se>; Lukáš Drag <lukasdrag@gmail.com>; Jonas Hagge <jonashagge@posteo.de>; Ole Petter Laksforsmo Vindstad <ole.p.vindstad@uit.no>; Torbjørn Ekrem <torbjorn.ekrem@ntnu.no>
Cc: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson <anne.sverdrup-thygeson@nmbu.no>; Johan Asplund <johan.asplund@nmbu.no>
Subject: Phd-opportunity in forest ecology

 

Dear all,

A new PhD-opportunity on the effect of forestry on biodiversity and ecosystem functions at NMBU, Norway.

 

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/200260/phd-scholarship-within-forest-ecology

 

Please spread the word!

All the best

Tone

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Tuesday, February 2, 2021

RE: GBIF young reasearch awards/ CETAF E-Score Award 2021 (deadline 14 Febr. 21) / GBIF 2021 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge /

 

 2021 GBIF Young Researchers Award

On behalf of the network of national Participants, the GBIF Secretariat is pleased to invite nominations for the 2021 Young Researchers Award. This annual programme aims to foster and recognize innovative research and discovery in biodiversity informatics by graduate students whose master's and doctoral studies rely on GBIF-mediated data.

The 2021 programme will provide a pair of €5,000 prizes recognizing the work of two early-career researchers—preferably, one master's and one PhD candidate—nominated by the heads of delegation and node managers from GBIF Participant countries.

A jury organized by GBIF Science Committee will select two award recipients from the pool of nominees whose names are received by the GBIF Secretariat by 21 June 2021. The winners will be announced in early fall 2021.

More information can be found
here.

 

CETAF E-Score Award 2021 https://cetaf.org/news/apply-e-score-award-until-14-february-2021

 

CETAF is very happy to inform you that the deadline of the E-SCoRe Award 2021 has been extended until Sunday 14 February 2021!

E-SCoRe - Excellence in Scientific Collections-based Research will celebrate for the second year the new generation of scientists who have shown interest in the collections that help documenting, describing and understanding life on Earth.

The foundations of E-SCoRe are the natural science collections that are hosted, preserved and curated in research organisations across Europe and in associated countries with CETAF member institutions. The research staff of these institutions explore and document diversity in nature. The knowledge they collectively build provides a foundation on which policies and initiatives for nature conservation and the protection of natural resources are based.

By awarding the E-SCoRe award, CETAF wishes to highlight the signifiance of collections-based research in the fight against biodiversity loss and climate change as well as to support early career researchers in this field.

More information can be found here

 

 

2021 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge

The 2021 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge has opened with the aim of recognizing innovative entries that leverage biodiversity data and tools from the GBIF network to advance open science. An expert jury will judge entries on their openness and repeatability, relevance and novelty and present a selected pool of winners with a total of up to €20,000 in prizes.

Deadline: 2 August 2021, 1600 CEST | UTC +2

Between 20 January and 2 August 2021, individuals and teams can prepare tools and techniques that improve the access, usefulness and quality of open biodiversity data and submit them to this annual open-ended incentive competition.

Challenge entries can take any number of approaches. Entrants may choose to develop new applications, visualizations, methods, workflows or analyses, often (but not always) making use of the GBIF API to access data. You may also build on or extend the capabilities of existing tools and features available across the GBIF network. We encourage entrants to review previous winners as well as previous winning entries for ideas, problems or approaches you may wish to pursue (see below).

Entries should benefit multiple stakeholder groups, including data users, data holders and data managers. You may wish to review the GBIF Communications Strategy to see how we describe GBIF's audiences.

 

 

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Third announcement: Swedish Virtual Oikos meeting 9-10 February 2021

 

 

Third announcement of Virtual Oikos Meeting February 9-10 2021

Welcome to the annual virtual Oikos Meeting  9-10 February 2021.

The final program is now available, and registration  is still open. Registration is mandatory but free of charge. 

Deadline for registration is February 7. If you want to register to participate in the meeting send an email to johan.olofsson@umu.se with the title Registration Oikos. This is free of charge, but membership in Swedish Oikos Society  is recommended.

Register as a member at our home page:

The fee is 11 EUR and includes a membership in the Nordic Oikos Society.

 

9 February

 

12.00 Start of meeting.

12.15-13.00 Session 1. Keynote: Nina Wedell, University of Exeter, UK

Sex, Conflict and Selfish Genes.

13.00-13.15 Malin Hasselgren, Genomic and fitness consequences of inbreeding in an endangered carnivore

13.15-13.30 Laura Van Dijk Direct versus insect-mediated effects of pathogens on the growth and fitness of a perennial herb

13.30-13.45 Elsa Fogelström Reproductive status, individual condition and spring temperature affects vegetative phenology in a perennial herb

13.45-14.00 Michelle Nordqvist, The indirect effects of moose browsing on arthropod predation pressure

14.00-14.15 Stefan Bertilsson SITES: A Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science

 

15.00-15.45 Session 2. Peter B Reich, University of Minnesota, USA

Some ‘baby steps’ towards a holistic approach to terrestrial ecology.

15.45-16.00 Clydecia Spitzer Root trait microbial relationships across sub-arctic tundra species*

16.00-16.15 Signe Lett Bryophyte functional groups in tundra ecosystems*

16.15-16.30 Tom Staton A holistic approach to agro-ecology: functional biodiversity, productivity and profitability in an agroforestry system

16.30-16.45 Irena A. Koelemeijer Lower understory biodiversity in boreal forest fragments hit by the severe drought of 2018

16.45-17.00 Juan Ignacio Rodrigues, Direct and indirect effects of herbivory on Arctic biodiversity

 

 

10 February

 

10.00-11.00 Annual meeting.

 

12.00-12.45 Elena Gorokhova, Stockholms universitet

Microbiome-mediated interactions in zooplankton and their food-web implications.

12.45-13.00 Karolina Eriksson Bacteria vs. Predator - Seasonal dynamics and co-occurrence of predation resistant bacteria and protozoa*

13.00-13.15 Matias Ledesna Gelos Population-specific responses to toxic cyanobacteria in a key benthic species

13.15-13.30 Johanna Häussler Invasive spread in meta-food webs depends on landscape structure, fertilization and species characteristic.

13.30-13.45 Victor Thunell Effects of warming on intraguild predator communities

13.45-14.00 Max Lindmark Evaluating drivers of spatiotemporal changes in the condition of Eastern Baltic cod.

14.00-14.15 Thomas J Richards Direct and indirect effects of ungulate grazers on population dynamics of a perennial herb

 

15.00-15.45 Craig Primmer, Helsinki University, The genetic basis of age at maturity in Atlantic salmon: the journey from genome scan to function, ecology, and conservation.

15.45-16.00 Johan Leander, Umeå University, Salmonid repeat spawners: Their importance and how we can increase their occurrence in regulated rivers.*

16.00-16.15 William Ashworth Effects of predation pressure on behaviour and morphology in wild guppies

16.15-16.30 Álvaro Gaytán herbivores during all parts of the growing season (PhD Stockholm)

16.30-16.45 Fredrika Wrethling The contribution of inorganic habitat structures to predator-prey interaction in boreal forest

16.45-17.00 Biruk Ayalew The impact of shade tree identity on Arabica coffee pests and diseases                            

 

*Invited young speaker.

 

 

 

 

Phd position at Mid Sweden University

Hi,

 

We have an open PhD-position available for the project "Functional green infrastructure in boreal forest landscapes – the role of fragmentation in time and space for wood living fungi". See attached files for information in Swedish and English. In case of questions feel free to contact me.

 

Best regards

Bege Jonsson

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Prof. Bengt Gunnar Jonsson

Dept of Natural Sciences

Mid Sweden University Sundsvall

+46 10 1428941