Postdoctoral and PhD positions available to explore relationships between biodiversity and natural pest control. Possible research topics include impacts of pathogen/predator species richness (Science 321:1488-1490, 2009) and evenness (Nature 466:109-112, 2010) on prey populations in natural or sustainable-farming systems. A combination of field experiments, theory, and/or molecular approaches encouraged. Start summer or fall 2012. See the Snyder lab web site for more information (http://entomology.wsu.edu/personal/bill_snyder/index.html). Contact Bill Snyder, Department of Entomology, Washington State University, [email protected].
