Project description
We invite applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship with the overall objective to analyze how different management interventions can help to protect biodiversity and generate ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. By investigating a range of conservation measures, e.g. semi-natural habitats, no till, ecological farming, and their spatial configuration it is possible to identify different effects on species compositions, i.e. species identity, dominance, trait distribution and function. This knowledge will then be used to understand the synergies and trade-offs between managing for endangered or rare species and for species that contribute most to ecosystem services generation. How the investigated measures will affect opportunity costs for farmers can be estimated by using production functions at different spatial scales and land use intensity. The analyses will be built on already existing data and new field inventories that relate spatially explicit land-use information to the distribution organisms with main focus on plants, but also insects and birds. The study will be carried out in close collaboration with the other partners in the research program SAPES as well as the Landscape Ecology group at the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology.
We invite applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship with the overall objective to analyze how different management interventions can help to protect biodiversity and generate ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. By investigating a range of conservation measures, e.g. semi-natural habitats, no till, ecological farming, and their spatial configuration it is possible to identify different effects on species compositions, i.e. species identity, dominance, trait distribution and function. This knowledge will then be used to understand the synergies and trade-offs between managing for endangered or rare species and for species that contribute most to ecosystem services generation. How the investigated measures will affect opportunity costs for farmers can be estimated by using production functions at different spatial scales and land use intensity. The analyses will be built on already existing data and new field inventories that relate spatially explicit land-use information to the distribution organisms with main focus on plants, but also insects and birds. The study will be carried out in close collaboration with the other partners in the research program SAPES as well as the Landscape Ecology group at the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology.
Qualifications
Qualifications for the research fellowship are a PhD in Physical Geography, Quaternary Geology, Biology, Ecology or closely related discipline. A person who holds a foreign degree that is deemed equivalent to a doctorate shall be qualified for appointment. The applicant needs to have a PhD not older than 5 years from a non-Swedish university and priority is given to candidates who have completed their degree no more than 3 years before the last date for applications.
The main criteria for the evaluation of applicants will be scientific skills. The successful applicant will have a research focus within topics such as landscape ecology, conservation ecology, and restoration ecology. Good knowledge in spatial statistics, modelling and geographical information systems are important qualifications. Experience in assessing ecosystem services at different spatial scales is a merit. Emphasis will also be put on the extent to which the applicant can contribute to the interactions within the SAPES programme. Documented experience of collaboration among research areas will also be regarded as a qualification. Excellent skills in written and oral communications are required.
Qualifications for the research fellowship are a PhD in Physical Geography, Quaternary Geology, Biology, Ecology or closely related discipline. A person who holds a foreign degree that is deemed equivalent to a doctorate shall be qualified for appointment. The applicant needs to have a PhD not older than 5 years from a non-Swedish university and priority is given to candidates who have completed their degree no more than 3 years before the last date for applications.
The main criteria for the evaluation of applicants will be scientific skills. The successful applicant will have a research focus within topics such as landscape ecology, conservation ecology, and restoration ecology. Good knowledge in spatial statistics, modelling and geographical information systems are important qualifications. Experience in assessing ecosystem services at different spatial scales is a merit. Emphasis will also be put on the extent to which the applicant can contribute to the interactions within the SAPES programme. Documented experience of collaboration among research areas will also be regarded as a qualification. Excellent skills in written and oral communications are required.
For further information please contact Associate professor Regina Lindborg +46 (0)8 16 47 68, e-mail: regina.lindborg@natgeo.su.se
Union representatives are Bo Ekengren, SACO, Lisbeth Häggberg, ST,
ph.: +46 8 16 2000 and Gunnar Stenberg, SEKO, ph +46 70 3164341
ph.: +46 8 16 2000 and Gunnar Stenberg, SEKO, ph +46 70 3164341
Applications
Applications should include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, copies of degree certificates and transcripts of academic records (all attested) and a list of two persons who may act as references (with phone numbers and email addresses).
Applications should include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, copies of degree certificates and transcripts of academic records (all attested) and a list of two persons who may act as references (with phone numbers and email addresses).
Applications labeled Postdoc dnr. 463-175-10 should be posted to the address below and be post marked no later than 15 February, 2011.
Stockholm University
Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology
Susanna Blåndman
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
Stockholm University
Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology
Susanna Blåndman
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
Further information
Stockholm University: www.su.se/english/
The Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology:
www.ink.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp
Stockholm University: www.su.se/english/
The Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology:
www.ink.su.se/pub/jsp/polopoly.jsp
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