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  Floral pollen resources and their importance for pollinators and pollination services.
University of Leeds Faculty of Biological Sciences
  Research Group: BBSRC White Rose DTP
  Prof W E Kunin, Prof J Memmott, Prof G Wright
Application Deadline: 7 January 2019
Recent pollinator losses have been linked in part to declines in floral resources. While we have demonstrated that British nectar availability declined over the past century (Baude et al.
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  Pollen-based reconstructions of the vegetation and climate of the circum-Mediterranean region during the Holocene
University of Reading School of Geography and Environmental Science
  Prof S Harrison
Application Deadline: 1 March 2019
The vegetation of the circum-Mediterranean region is highly sensitive to climate change, and Mediterranean ecosystems are likely to be negatively impacted by future climate warming.
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  Future Climate: Future Pollen and Spores
University of Birmingham NERC Doctoral Training Centre Studentships with CENTA
  Dr F Pope
Application Deadline: 21 January 2019
Globally, atmospheric CO2 concentrations are rising because of anthropogenic activity. They will continue to rise in the coming century.
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  The use of marine macroalgae as nutritional resources for domesticated honeybees
University of Oxford BBSRC Interdisciplinary Bioscience DTP
  Prof G Wright
Application Deadline: 11 January 2019
Domesticated honeybees (Apis mellifera) are important for world food security because of the pollination services they provide to crops.
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  Atlantic woodland health: long-term interactions between climate, ecology and management
University of Stirling School of Biological & Environmental Sciences
  Dr E Tisdall, Dr A Davies, Dr R Streeter
Application Deadline: 18 January 2019
Forest health is a growing, international concern, with most attention focused on climatic drivers and regions with large tracts of forest cover.
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  Genetic Control of Plant and Crop Fertility: Understanding the Impact of Key Gene Networks on Pollen and Gamete Fitness
University of Leicester Department of Genetics and Genome Biology
  Research Group: Behavioural & Developmental Genetics
  Prof D Twell, Dr R Badge
Applications accepted all year round
Plant fertility and food security depend upon the vital role of pollen grains, which deliver the male gametes required for fertilisation and seed production.
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  Holocene rapid climate change and vegetation response in Cappadocia, Turkey
University of Birmingham School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
  Dr W J Eastwood, Dr J P Sadler
Applications accepted all year round
Multi-proxy approaches to integrated regional studies of environmental variability during the late Glacial and Holocene can provide valuable insights into the ways that significant shifts in climate have affected natural ecosystems, landscapes and human activities over decadal, centennial and millennial timescales.
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  Past and present spatial patterning in the newly-discovered peat swamp forest environments of the central Congo Basin
University of St Andrews School of Geography and Geosciences
  Dr I Lawson
Application Deadline: 18 January 2019
The aim of this PhD studentship is to contribute to the NERC-funded CongoPeat project, which involves a team from the Universities of Leeds, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Leicester, Nottingham, and Exeter, and many project partners, and which aims to better understand the development, contemporary function and future of the Congo Basin peat swamp forests.
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  School of Geographical and Earth Sciences - Understanding ecohydrological dynamics in intact tropical peatlands: a biogeochemical approach
University of Glasgow College of Science and Engineering
  Prof J Toney, Dr K.H. Roucoux
Application Deadline: 18 January 2019
The Biomarkers for Environmental and Climate Science (BECS) research group at the University of Glasgow is looking to recruit an excellent PhD student to assess carbon storage and ecosystem dynamics through biomarker approaches in recently discovered tropical peatlands of northern Peru.
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  Mathematical modelling of the effect of temperature stress on crop fertility
University of Nottingham School of Mathematical Sciences
  Prof J R King, Prof Z A Wilson
Applications accepted all year round
Do you have a passion for sustainability? Would you like to apply mathematical research to help improve resource security?.
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