Dear ecologists,
I’d like to draw your attention to a PhD position that is open in my new
Biogeography and Biodiversity Lab at the Goethe University-Frankfurt,
Germany (https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/71993212/ir). The PhD student will
work within the the fully funded DFG project "/Quartz Islands - Island
biogeography and ecology of distinct terrestrial habitat islands/“ that
I’m co-supervising together with Ute Schmiedel and Jens Oldeland (both
at Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology Lab of the University of Hamburg
https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/oekologie-biologische-ressourcen/biodivevooek.html).
The position is a 3 year fixed-term contract (65%, E13, TV-G-U).
Starting date is January 1st (somewhat flexible…).
_The project_
The project aims at studying plant diversity and endemism in the
floristically quite unique habitat islands (so-called quartz islands) of
the Knersvlakte in South Africa. These quartz islands are famous for
their ‚living stones‘ from the Aizoaceae family - minuscule succulents
that look like pebbles during the dry period but produce extravagant
flowers during the rainy season. A really fascinating and quite poorly
studied system! Our aim is to combine approaches from community ecology,
island biogeography and remote sensing to study what determines plant
diversity and endemism across scales - from the plot scale to the
‚island‘ and landscape scale.
_Requirements_
We are searching for a candidate that
- has skills in botany and plant identification in the field as well as
background knowledge in island biogeography
- has skills in R and GIS
- has experience with soil analyses
- is willing to conduct field sampling under somewhat adventurous
conditions in a remote, arid environment
- is willing to present and publish scientific results at international
conferences and peer-reviewed journals
- has a background in biogeography, biology, ecology, physical geography
or a related discipline
For more information please follow the link:
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794896/fb11
*Application deadline is October 20th. So less than a week remaining to
apply!!*
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Also,
please feel free to forward this information to anyone you find suitable
or of potential interest!
All the best
Severin
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Prof. Dr. Severin Irl
/Biogeography and Biodiversity Lab
Institute of Physical Geography/
/Department of Geoscience
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany/
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/tel.: +49-69-798-40171
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Faculty page <https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/71993212/ir> - Google scholar
<http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Q8q3_48AAAAJ&hl=de> - Research
Gate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Severin_Irl> - OrcID
<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1734-8607>
Society for Island Biology (SIB): www.islandbiology.com
<http://www.islandbiology.com>
