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POST-DOC ON AQUATIC ECOLOGY
Agency/location: IRTA, Aquatic Ecosystems Unit (Research Institute). Ctra. del Poble Nou, km 5.5, E-43540 Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Catalonia, Spain.
Responsibilities: The candidate’s primary responsibilities will be to lead a two year (2009-2011) research project in the Ebro Delta (Catalonia, Spain). The project is focused on THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL CHANGE ON COASTAL LAGOONS.
The main objectives are:
1. To examine the effects of macrophytes on the trophic cascade caused by fish in Mediterranean lakes along a salinity gradient.
2. To analyse how seasonality (an associated water level changes) affect the trophic food web in Mediterranean shallow lakes.
3. By using a space for time substitution approach, to provide insights of the potential impacts of a warmer climate in temperate shallow lakes.
Specific questions of the project are:
• Do macrophytes promote a cascading effect generating increased water transparency in Mediterranean shallow lakes?
• Which are the consequences of increased salinity in the trophic cascades of shallow lakes?
• How do the food webs in Mediterranean shallow lakes differ to temperate lakes?
• How does seasonality affect the trophic food web in Mediterranean shallow lakes?
• Can warmer climate increase the chances that shallow lakes fall in a turbid state?
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Qualifications: PhD title from an accredited College or University in an appropriate field of study (e.g. Biology, Environmental Sciences). Experience in aquatic ecology; experience in project management, field sampling and data analysis; modelling and GIS experience will be valuated. Candidates must have excellent writing skills in English. Knowledge of Spanish and/or Catalan will be valuated.
Additional requirements:
- PhD title obtained after 01-01-2003
- The candidate should not have been associated with IRTA previously (i.e. PhD student, employee), or if so, he/she should have spent at least two years abroad since a former connection to IRTA
- He/she can not have been granted a Beatriu de Pinós BP-B1 scholarship before.
Salary: around 32.000 € per year (gross salary)
Contact: candidates must send their CV to Dr. Carles Ibáñez: carles.ibanez@irta.cat