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biodiversity conservation PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 17 biodiversity conservation PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Fully Funded PhD Positions in Marine Sustainability & Biodiversity Conservation

Are you passionate about marine ecosystems, coastal sustainability, and the future of our oceans?. The Amrita School for Sustainable Futures (ASF) invites applications for fully funded PhD positions in Marine Sustainability & Biodiversity Conservation, offered under the globally recognised Amrita E4LIFE PhD Program. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  India PhD Programme
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Spatio-temporal drivers of insect biodiversity and conservation

The School of Biology invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr C Hassall, Dr R Neely, Assoc Prof E.J. Duncan, Prof W E Kunin
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Anticipating the impacts of extreme weather on biodiversity

Project Overview. To date, efforts to address the impacts of climate change on biodiversity have focused on gradual shifts in species’ abundance and distribution. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Boult
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Plants with Purpose: Enhancing the Role of Scotland’s Urban Forest for Landscape-scale Nature Recovery

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 Supervisors: Dr Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor, Dr E Bush, Prof K Park, Ms C Johnstone
 6 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Woodland management, invertebrates and the rewilding-management debate

Proposed supervisory team. Dr Alvin Helden. Dr Steve Allain. Summary of the research project. In this project you will work collaboratively with the Wilderness Foundation to assess the invertebrate biodiversity of Mann Wood, an ancient semi-natural woodland with a history of coppicing with standards management. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Helden
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Quantifying Seagrass Natural Capital — Global Meta-Analysis of Biodiversity Gain and Ecosystem Service Functions for Marine Accounting

Seagrass meadows are among the planet’s most valuable coastal ecosystems, yet their contribution to natural capital—the stock of nature supporting economic and social wellbeing—remains poorly quantified. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MDCL Do Amaral Camara Lima
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Computational Neural Networks (CNNs), foundational large language models (LLMs), and pretrained transformers (GPTs) for phylogeny, biodiversity and functional genomics

  Research Group: Genetics
Artificial intelligence will transform the identification, measurement, conservation and exploitation of biodiversity and the understanding and applications that can come from genomics, transcriptomics and genome assemblies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr PHH Heslop-Harrison
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Understanding extinction risk in the Anthropocene

We live in a humanized world in which even the most remote areas have been affected by the actions of our species. Human impacts have caused a widespread loss of biodiversity, to the point that we have likely entered the sixth mass extinction event on Earth, the first primarily caused by humans. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Gonzalez-Suarez
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Evaluating the potential consequences of climate heating for Caspian seals and ecosystem services in the Caspian Sea

Marine mammals are keystone species for marine ecosystems. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Goodman, Prof M Beger
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Department of Ecology and Conservation: Mast-EER Scholarships

Training the next generation of Engineering Ecosystem Resilience scholars. Mast-EER is a pioneering Masters by Research (MbyRes) cohort funded by the Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) through its Engineering Ecosystem Resilience (EER) opportunity space. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  Humanities Research Programme
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Intelligent, low-power, and networked biodiversity monitoring device

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 Supervisors: Dr J Beuchert, Dr NP Pham
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Interactions of Plant Diversity and Climate on Ecosystem Phenology and Resilience

Vegetation phenology—the timing of plant life cycle events—is a key bioindicator of climate change, a critical biodiversity variable, and a major driver of ecosystem processes and resilience. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Huete
 29 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Acoustic Indicators of Ecosystem Integrity: Developing Soundscape-Based Monitoring for West African Protected Areas

Biodiversity monitoring underpins effective protected area management and international conservation reporting, yet West African nations face persistent capacity constraints -insufficient funding, limited field personnel, and taxonomic expertise gaps - that prevent adequate ecosystem assessment. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr CFJM Meyer, Dr J Carvalho
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Science Research Opportunities at the University of East Anglia

The Faculty of Science is part of Norwich Research Park, one of Europe's leading research centres conducting cutting-edge multidisciplinary research with an annual research spend of over £130 million. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  PhD Opportunities
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Life’s a Beach - Tropical Beach Microbiomes in a Changing World

Tropical beaches are among the world’s most heavily used and impacted coastal environments and underpin a major tourism industry across Southeast Asia. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Pointing
 15 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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