For a research project on the effect of fragmentation in urban habitats the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL (http://www.wsl.ch) is offering for January 2009 a

         PhD position in urban ecology

The candidate will investigate the effect of fragmentation on spatial patterns of selected species and invertebrate communities in urban environments; radio-track hedgehogs; sample and identify flying and ground-dwelling invertebrates such as bees, carabid beetles or snails; analyze their functional assemblage with uni- and multivariate techniques and publish the results in international journals.

Detailed project information is available at: http://www.cces.ethz.ch/projects/sulu/ENHANCE (project module 2, task 4).

Details about the application are available from:
http://www.wsl.ch/info/stellen/index_DE

specifically:
http://www.wsl.ch/info/stellen/547e.pdf

(Do not send applications by email!)

      Dr. Martin K. Obrist                    ^v^
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   Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
   Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
   CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
MG D 52 phone: ++41 44 739 24 66 fax: ++41 44 739 22 15
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http://www.wsl.ch/forschung/forschungsunits/biodiversitaet

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