Joint CSIRO/ Centre of Excellence PhD Scholarship:
Patch Dynamics and Conservation Planning
Australian Postgraduate Award equivalent (2008: $20007) per annum with potential for top-up, plus research costs.
Location: James Cook University, Townsville
A collaboration between the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University and CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems provides a unique opportunity for research into patch dynamics and conservation planning.
Systematic conservation planning (SCP) involves explicit objectives and transparent decisions about allocating conservation resources. However, the current theory and practice of SCP implicitly assumes that biodiversity distributions are static and that anthropogenic threats are not expanding. Major unmet challenges are to plan for the persistence of "natural" processes that maintain and generate biodiversity and to account for dynamic threats posed by human activities. Among the processes that conservation planning should address are patch dynamics operating in all realms and across spatial and temporal scales. This project will address at least two kinds of
patch dynamics and extend previous work on conservation planning through analysis of key patch parameters and simulation modelling. The outcome will be in inclusion of patch-dynamics in the conservation planning.
For further information on this scholarship topic and research proposal contact either:
Professor Bob Pressey: Bob.Pressey@ jcu.edu.au phone
07 47816194
Dr Iain Gordon: Iain.Gordon@ csiro.au
Applicants must hold an Honours Class I (or equivalent) degree and be competitive in attracting an Australian Postgraduate or JCU postgraduate research award.
Applicants must apply through the James Cook University Postgraduate Research Scholarship applications process.
Closing date for 2009 commencement: 31 October 2008
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