[APES Jobs] FW: POST-DOCTORAL AND PHD OPPORTUNITIES on monitoring global change impacts in megadiverse vegetation systems]

[Bursaries, Employment and Career Opportunities in Environmental Fields]

Barend Erasmus
Associate professor: School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand

+27 11 717 6449 (office)
+27 11 717 6494 (fax)

From: info at fynbosforum.org.za [mailto:info at fynbosforum.org.za]
Sent: 12 May 2013 07:20 PM
To: Fynbos Forum Sandy Dowling
Subject: FF: POST-DOCTORAL AND PHD OPPORTUNITIES on monitoring global change impacts in megadiverse vegetation systems]

Dear all

POST-DOCTORAL AND PHD OPPORTUNITIES on monitoring global change impacts in megadiverse vegetation systems

The SAEON Fynbos Node seeks to appoint two Postdoctoral fellows and one PhD candidate for their research programme developing monitoring systems to detect global change impacts on ecosystem structure, composition and function in the Cape Floristic Region.

The projects are focused on developing and testing variables that can be used to monitor vegetation structure, composition and function at different spatial and temporal scales. Variables range from plant traits and diversity measures to indices derived from remote sensing, and will be used in conjunction with new and existing data to test for impacts of global change and/or establish relationships between variables measured at different scales. Please see attached advertisement for more details on specific projects.

The posts will be based at the Fynbos Node hosted at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch, but candidates may sit at Stellenbosch University or the University of Cape Town depending on project requirements.

Many thanks
Jasper Slingsby


Scientist,
Fynbos Node
South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON)
http://www.saeon-fynbos.org/
Private Bag X7
Rhodes Drive, Claremont
7735
Cape Town, South Africa

office: 021 799 8834
cel: 083 406 0581



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