Understanding variation and change in biodiversity as a consequence of changing\u00a0environments is one of today\u2019s main scientific challenges. One problem is that recent\u00a0climate change has tended to be much smaller in magnitude (~1\u00b0C) than the change\u00a0expected over the rest of this century (~5\u00b0C), which limits the ability to predict future\u00a0biodiversity change. Also, much of the research focus so far has only correlated climatic\u00a0variables with biotic ones, despite increasing evidence that other influences are important.\u00a0This project will overcome these limitations by investigating whether areas of high abiotic\u00a0diversity (geodiversity) are more effective at buffering biodiversity against the impacts of\u00a0climate change in arctic and high-altitude ecosystems. These arctic and alpine\u00a0ecosystems have already experienced warming of ~5\u00b0C over the last few decades.\u00a0Analysis and manuscript writing will proceed quickly: all the data needed for the first two\u00a0papers have been amassed by the supervisory team and collaborators. For subsequent\u00a0papers, the student will acquire and process additional targeted remote sensing data, and\u00a0participate in at least one fieldwork season. The successful applicant will have excellent\u00a0networking opportunities, taking advantage of a large collaborative team of ecologists,\u00a0biogeographers, remote sensing experts and geo-scientists in the UK, Denmark, Finland,\u00a0the Netherlands and the USA. The project will involve placements with project partners\u00a0overseas, field work in Greenland, quantitative analysis of large databases, remote\u00a0sensing and numerical modelling. Applicants must have grounding either in\u00a0biogeography\/ecology\/geology or quantitative methods\/statistics. In either case, the\u00a0applicant should be excited to learn about the other area of expertise. Programming\u00a0(ideally in R), ecological\/geological field experience, database management, geostatistical\u00a0and remote sensing\/GIS skills are assets, but enthusiasm for nature and curiosity about\u00a0the impact of climate change on ecosystems are by far the most important requirements.<\/p>\n
Applicants should hold a minimum of a UK Honours degree at 2:1 level, or equivalent, in\u00a0a subject such as Biology, Ecology, Physical Geography, Natural Sciences or\u00a0Quantitative Methods\/Statistics.<\/p>\n
For further details please contact Dr Richard Field (richard.field@nottingham.ac.uk<\/a>) or Dr\u00a0Franziska Schrodt (franziska.schrodt1@nottingham.ac.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Understanding variation and change in biodiversity as a consequence of changing\u00a0environments is one of today\u2019s main scientific challenges. One problem is that recent\u00a0climate change has tended to be much smaller in magnitude (~1\u00b0C) than the change\u00a0expected over the rest of this century (~5\u00b0C), which limits the ability to predict future\u00a0biodiversity change. Also, much of the… Read More »Change in arctic and alpine plant communities: the roles of climate and geodiversity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":363,"featured_media":5874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[51],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-5873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-51","tag-nottingham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/files\/2017\/10\/Richard-Field-Image-400x400px.jpg?fit=400%2C400","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kFzn-1wJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6496,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions\/6496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/envision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}