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ecology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
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Adaptation to environmental change in animals: ecology, evolution and genomics.
How are animals able to live in different environments, with different temperatures, energetic demands, diet, predators, parasites or pH? Thanks to advances in gene sequencing technology, we are in a remarkable period of discovery about the genomic basis of adaptation and how this depends on the intricacies of ecology and environment. Read more
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 2023/24. Read more
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Ecology of Green Turtles on Yawuru Nagulagun
Location. Murdoch University’s School of Environmental and Conservation Sciences and Harry Butler Institute’s Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, South Street campus, Perth, Western Australia. Read more
Fully-funded studentship - Developing novel spatio-temporal models for large citizen science data sets
Supervisors: This is a joint project between the University of Kent and Butterfly Conservation and the PhD student will be supervised by a team with expertise in Statistics, Statistical Ecology, Citizen Science, and Butterfly Monitoring. Read more
Film: an Ecology of Light
This PhD project weaves together film, ecology, and light, by addressing light as the filmic substance in the context of ecological discourse. Read more
Quantifying and managing multi-taxon range shifts in marine reef ecosystems
This PhD project is a marine ecology project that will employ cutting-edge modelling and unique marine datasets to model range shifts of marine species under climate change and develop novel conservation mechanisms to manage them. Read more
Ecology and behaviour of urban wildlife
The construction and development of urban areas is a relatively recent phenomenon. Urbanisation does, however, impose a range of advantages and disadvantages for biological organisms and which can bring them into conflict with humans. Read more
AI for Ecology and Biodiversity: Inferring habitat-species interactions from historical records [Self Funded Students Only]
Research Group:
Data and Knowledge Engineering
This project will apply artificial intelligence methods for natural language processing and machine learning to extract ecological and biodiversity data from textual descriptions of the environments in which biological specimens were collected. Read more
How does rapid evolution affect ecological dynamics and stability in an era of global environmental change?
PhD position in Eco-Evolutionary Biology. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, together with the University of British Columbia (Canada), the University of Arkansas (US), National Institute of Genetics (Japan), and MIT (US). Read more
Impacts of disease (chytridiomycosis) and environmental contaminants on wildlife conservation (amphibians)
Wildlife are in peril due to numerous threatening processes. Amphibians (especially frogs) are the most endangered Class of Vertebrates. Read more
Genetics underpinnings of antibiotics-phage synergy. MRC GW4 BioMed DTP PhD studentship 2024/25 Entry, PhD in Ecology and Conservation
About the GW4 BioMed2 Doctoral Training Partnership. The partnership brings together the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff (lead) and Exeter to develop the next generation of biomedical researchers. Read more
Interactions between introduced tree species and native mycorrhizal fungi in the UK
Mycorrhizal symbioses are one of the most extensive and important biotic interactions in terrestrial ecosystems, typically providing plants with improved access to nutrients in exchange for carbohydrates produced via photosynthesis. Read more
Plant-insect interactions in a changing world
Project Overview: . Insects associated with plants comprise one of the most diverse groups of species on earth. Their impact on the ecology and evolution of their host plants is widely recognised, as is their contribution to multiple important ecosystem services. Read more
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
QUADRAT DTP: The health and well-being effects of pest rodent management strategies in rural Madagascar
Across low-income countries, rodents contribute significantly to income and food insecurity due to both pre and post-harvest losses. Read more