The Theoretical Ecology group at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin is hiring a 3-year PostDoc for process-based simulation modelling of the stability and resilience of terrestrial ecosystems under disturbances and ongoing global change.
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MSc thesis opportunity on Food Quality and Ecosystem Functioning at Uni Koblenz-Landau
We are offering a thesis to investigate which food quality descriptor is the best to explain changes in ecosystem functioning under stress. The thesis will be supervised jointly by our working groups Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology and Ecosystem Resilience.
Continue readingProfessor position in Environmental Systems Modelling at Osnabrück University
The Institute of Mathematics at Osnabrück University seeks to appoint an associate professor in environmental systems modelling termed for five years.
Continue readingPhD position in effects of multiple stressors at ZFMK
The Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZMFK) is hiring a PhD to investigate multiple stressor effects on the functioning of flowing aquatic ecosystems.
Continue readingMSc theses in the working group “Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology”
We are offering theses to investigate the question “Does stoichiometry explain changes in ecosystem functioning under stress?”.
Continue readingPhD position on microplastics in freshwater foodwebs at SLU
The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, is offering a PhD position in ecology to investigate the impacts of microplastics on the structure and function of freshwater food webs.
Continue readingTheses on the relevance of biodiversity to function relationships in heterotrophic aquatic systems under stress
Interested in the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functions under stress and looking for an internship, research project, BSc or MSc thesis? Join us!
Continue readingVisiting Argentina – the land of beef and mate tea
Alexander Feckler shares his experience during his visit at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (UNMdP) and the Universidad de Córdoba (UCO) in Argentina, as part of an internationalization project of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).
Continue readingCan we use an American leaf shredder to assess sediment-associated metal risks in Europe?
In this post, Jochen Zubrod reports on their recently published paper “Is Hyalella azteca a suitable model leaf-shredding benthic crustacean for testing the toxicity of sediment-associated metals in Europe?”.
Continue reading“Don’t forget me”: aquatic insects, a disregarded taxonomic class in the assessment of fungicide toxicity in detritivorous invertebrates
In this post, Marco Konschak writes about their recently published paper “Waterborne and diet-related effects of inorganic and organic fungicides on the insect leaf shredder Chaetopteryx villosa (Trichoptera)”.
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