Global challenges regarding energy and climate change, the environment, health, food safety, technology and renewable solutions, use and conservation of land and natural resources, and development of the bio-economy, requires greater effort. NMBU is well equipped to conduct further research in these fields. NMBU's expertise spans entire value chains and includes both basic and applied research.

On 1 January 2014, the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science and the University of Life Sciences merged and became -NMBU, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. NMBU has 1700 employees and 5100 students, and is currently located on two campuses - Ås, about 30 km south of Oslo, and Adamstuen in Oslo. In 2019, the new research- and education-building for veterinary science will be completed and all of NMBU will then be located at Campus Ås.

Further information about NMBU is available on www.nmbu.no

The Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has a vacant 3 year PhD-position related to ecology

Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management (INA) has about 100 employees and undertakes teaching, research and dissemination within the fields of biology and ecology, nature management, renewable energy, nature based tourism and forest sciences. Currently the department has ca. 370 students, and about 50 PhD-students. The employees of the department are very active in their areas of expertise, both nationally and internationally and have a high level of production of scientific papers. For more information: http://www.nmbu.no/ina-en/

Research project

The position is financed by NMBU, and the person to be hired will work in the project "Community dynamics in patchy landscapes: The importance of regional and local drivers". The focal organisms are insects living in dead wood.

In this project, the candidate will study how spatial and temporal habitat-distribution influences the establishment and the dynamics of communities in a fragmented landscape. As model system, we use the beetle community associated with ancient oaks - a species-rich system of high management interest and important for decomposition and nutrient recycling services. The aim is to evaluate the importance of local and regional drivers on functional diversity in beetle communities constrained to discrete habitat patches, including differences in habitat stability. The project combines the use of existing time-series community data and a field experiment.

The supervisor team consists of Prof. Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson as main supervisor and Prof. Tone Birkemoe  and Senior Researcher Dag Hjermann at NIVA and University of Oslo/ CEES as co-supervisors.

Main tasks

The candidate is expected to:

• Establish and carry out field experiments
• Plan and conduct field- and lab work, analyze, interpret and present results
• Write scientific articles for international publication, according to the requirements of a doctoral degree at INAComplete a doctoral thesis in ecology at INA

The succe

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige unive

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Universitetstunet 3 1430 ÅS

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Akershus

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Hvordan søke: Annet - se fritekst

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år