Dear US Ecologists, We are looking for potential collaboration with a US partner (must be a PI not a student) to apply for a small grant (up to $150,000) from the new joint funding program in BSF-NSF. http://www.bsf.org.il/data/FormsToDownload/BSF-NSF_Environmental_Biology_Call.pdf
The Israeli side would be a multi-disciplinary team led by Prof. Pua Bar (Kutiel) (plant and landscape ecology) at the Department of Geography & Environmental Science and Prof. Amos Bouskila (behavioural ecology and herpetology) from Life Sciences at Ben Gurion University, together with Dr. Elli Groner (entomology and biodiversity) from the Dead-Sea & Arava Science Center. I am a current PhD student working on the project. We have an ongoing, long-term biodiversity monitoring project in a coastal dune reserve in Israel, sampling 4 taxa annually: plants, insects, reptiles and rodents. We have been conducting experimental dune manipulation to see if vegetation removal is an effective way to restore mobile dune species structure and functioning. My current research is testing the diversity-stability hypothesis by looking at community stability over time in natural and treated dunes for multiple taxa. The potential for collaboration is extremely varied given the nature of our long-term, multi-taxa and multi-disciplinary project, therefore ideas for directions of a collaborative project are welcome, focusing on any topic within the broad range of: species distribution and diversity, community assembly, diversity-stability theory, grazing impacts, restoration ecology, conservation management, multivariate statistics & modelling, coastal dune research. Time is of the essence because the pre-proposal deadline is January 22nd 2015. The main proposal deadline is August 23rd 2015. If you are interested in collaborating with us, or for more information on the project please contact myself, or Prof. Pua Bar directly at < kut...@bgu.ac.il> Thanks for you interest and we look forward to hearing from you! Tania Tania Bird MSc PhD Student, Dept. of Geography & Environmental Development, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel http://www.geog.bgu.ac.il/fastSite/coursesFiles/phd/tania.pdf bi...@post.bgu.ac.il
