Determining the impact of grazing and cropping on tropical wildlife
Determining the impact of grazing and cropping on tropical wildlife
About the Project This PhD is a field-intensive project involving various automated and hands-on methods to quantify wildlife use of impacted landscapes (grazing, clearing, and cropping). You will be using … Read More Read More
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Land Use and Biodiversity Impact of Construction and Building Materials
Land Use and Biodiversity Impact of Construction and Building Materials
About the Project Applications are invited for a PhD Studentship funded by the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) at the University of East London in collaboration with AKT-II. Established in 2001, … Read More Read More
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Trunk to twig: high-resolution mapping of forest composition, architecture and carbon storage across the Amazonian basin
Trunk to twig: high-resolution mapping of forest composition, architecture and carbon storage across the Amazonian basin
About the Project Tropical forests play a pivotal role in global climate regulation, as well as supporting vital ecosystems and rich biodiversity. Despite the importance of the Amazon, as the … Read More Read More
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Scale dependence in landscape restoration: tracking biodiversity gains and agricultural sustainability under environmental land management
Scale dependence in landscape restoration: tracking biodiversity gains and agricultural sustainability under environmental land management
About the Project Cumbria Connect is a 33,000-hectare nature restoration partnership that started in 2023 and sits less than 10 miles to the northeast from our Ambleside Campus. This rural … Read More Read More
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Who's Calling: Individual bird recognition from vocalisation
Who's Calling: Individual bird recognition from vocalisation
About the Project Interested in conservation technology and bioacoustics? We are seeking two PhD students to join the AviaNZ team (http:// www.AviaNZ.net ) in New Zealand. Our research interests are … Read More Read More
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Enhancing Marine Biodiversity Through Repurposing Manmade Structures with Secondary Coastal Flood Defence Benefits
Enhancing Marine Biodiversity Through Repurposing Manmade Structures with Secondary Coastal Flood Defence Benefits
About the Project Saturn_Nuclear_CDT Manmade marine structures, such as decommissioned cooling water intake tunnels from power stations, represent significant infrastructural assets that can be repurposed to address pressing environmental challenges. … Read More Read More
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Anticipating the impacts of extreme weather on biodiversity
Anticipating the impacts of extreme weather on biodiversity
About the Project Project Overview To date, efforts to address the impacts of climate change on biodiversity have focused on gradual shifts in species’ abundance and distribution. However, extreme weather … Read More Read More
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Illuminating the role of green nectaries in floral nectar secretion
Illuminating the role of green nectaries in floral nectar secretion
About the Project Floral nectaries are the vital secretory organs that produce the sugary attractant for many pollinators. Nectaries are crucial for plant reproduction, biodiversity and food security. Nectaries are … Read More Read More
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Greening cities: biodiversity and ecosystem services associated with street trees, from ecology to planning
Greening cities: biodiversity and ecosystem services associated with street trees, from ecology to planning
This PhD project will investigate the role of an iconic but poorly studied system (street trees) for enhancing urban biodiversity and support ecosystem functions (e.g. pollination), and work with relevant … Read More Read More
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Increasing culture biodiversity and eco-evolutionary understanding of novel bacterial isolates using culturonmics and computational tools
Increasing culture biodiversity and eco-evolutionary understanding of novel bacterial isolates using culturonmics and computational tools
Microbiomes are defined as the entire habitat, including the microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, lower and higher eukaryotes, and viruses), their genomes (i.e., genes), and the surrounding environmental conditions (Marchesi et al, … Read More Read More
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