PhD position in research of plant invasions in protected areas (f/m)

Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech

Updated: over 2 years ago
Job Type: PartTime
Deadline: 17 Dec 2021

Join our international team of over 150 researchers and take advantage of the facilities and support provided by the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. We value professionality and friendly relations based on trust, respect and teamwork. Thanks to our continuous joint efforts the Institute of Botany is a place where we can all flourish professionally and personally.

The Department of Invasion Ecology of the Institute of Botany is opening a three-year postdoc position in the research on plant invasion in protected areas.

Your main responsibilities and duties will be:

The PhD student will perform field work in protected areas in Nepal to study their threat from invasive plants, and measure their impact on vegetation and soil. The aim is to identify factors driving invasions of alien plants in protected areas in the study region. The research will be done in a broader collaboration on a global project focusing on the role of habitats in plant invasions, and the student will be part of an international group dealing with this topic.


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