PhD fellowship in Island biogeography of mutualistic networks in the Caribbean

Details

We are offering a 3-year PhD fellowship in island biogeography of mutualistic networks in the Caribbean

Role title: PhD

Organisation: GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Closing Date: 13/09/2020

Role Location: Copenhagen & Caribbean

Role Description

We are offering a 3-year PhD fellowship in island biogeography of mutualistic networks in the Caribbean commencing 1st of January 2021.

Our group and research

The successful candidate will be part of the Dalsgaard Group (https://globe.ku.dk/research/cmec/dalsgaard-group/) within the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC) at the GLOBE Institute. CMEC is a center of excellence with a cross-disciplinary research program. We offer creative and stimulating working conditions in a dynamic and international research environment addressing fundamental questions on the origin, maintenance, conservation and future of life and biological diversity on Earth. The 40+ researchers at CMEC currently represent 14 different nationalities and the working language is English. The center juxtaposes faculty staff scientists from the fields of macroecology, historical biogeography, oceanography, evolutionary biology, community ecology, population biology, climate change research, conservation biology and environmental economics.

Project description

This project is novel in integrating island biogeography theory and theories on how climate and anthropogenic pressures influence mutualistic plant-pollinator and seed-disperser interactions. The project combines field work data collected in the Caribbean with network analysis and biogeographical modelling. The PhD student will work closely together with a postdoc to jointly lead data collection across numerous islands in the Caribbean. The PhD student should be prepared to collect data for approximately 4-5 months in both 2020 and 2021, and s/he is expected to first-author several papers in international peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the PhD-student, we will hire a postdoc and a cohort of MSc students will participate in the project. All project partners will gather once a year to run workshops with the aim of publishing review and synthesis papers. The project is funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Principal supervisor is Associate Professor Bo Dalsgaard, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, bo.dalsgaard@sund.ku.dk, Direct Phone: +45 42324553. Co-supervisors and project partners are Senior Lecturer Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury and Research Fellow Benno I Simmons (University of Exeter, UK) and Professor Mauro Galetti (University of Miami, USA).

Link to Website: https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=152204