PHD POSITION
The Conservation Biology department at the University of Göttingen (Germany) seeks highly qualified and motivated candidates for a PhD Position on biodiversity responses to land-use change in the former Soviet Union
Starting date: from 1st October 2020.
The successful applicant will focus on the impacts of land-use change on biodiversity across the former Soviet Union. The break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 resulted in major institutional and socio-economic changes, leading to widespread rural out migration and land abandonment that provided more space for wildlife. At the same time, poaching increased and new threats to biodiversity emerged. Overall, the consequences of the break-up of the Soviet Union for biodiversity are far from fully understood.
The aims of the PhD project are:
To harness and analyze time series of animal abundance (i.e., birds and mammals);
To understand population trends across the former Soviet Union in relation to land use changes;
To identify legacies of post-Soviet changes in grazing and wildfire patterns on biodiversity;
To explore rewilding opportunities due to post-Soviet land-use trends;
To identify gaps in protected area networks and to develop conservation strategies to better protect biodiversity.
Please refer to https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/305402.html?cid=14958 where you find the legally binding version of the job announcement.
Application deadline: 30 June 2020

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Евгения Брагина
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Требуется: Аспирант
Место работы: Германия
Область деятельности: Научные исследования (другое)