Scholarship Details: Actual amounts and number of awards will depend on funding levels Major scholarship for 2012-2013 Academic Yearin the following subject: Biological Sciences, Ecology (Wildlife & Stream)Required. Provide a statement (one page maximum) addressing each of the following items: educational and career goals, plans for accomplishment, leadership and extracurricular activities, community involvement, and relevant [...]

Scholarship Details: The department of Ecological Science, section Animal Ecology, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands has a PhD position available for the project: “Community responses to extreme weather events” Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of extreme weather events, such as heat waves or dry spells. Differences among species in the ability to [...]

Scholarship Details: The Hilary Jolly Memorial Scholarship was established in 1978 under the provisions of the will of the late Dr Violet Hilary Jolly MSc, PhD for the purpose of furthering research in the field of Freshwater Ecology at the University of Waikato.

Scholarship Details: A PhD Scholarship in Marine Ecology and Climate is available at the National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua) with starting date August 2011. The scholarship is financed by the Nordic Centre of Excellence: “Climate Change Effects on Marine Ecosystems and Resource Economics”. Project Details: The project will investigate how climatically driven variations [...]

The aim is to test how functional traits can explain the habitat requirements of the species. The basis of this project is a screening of a wide range of Sphagnum species for physiological, morphological and life-history traits. This includes water transport and storage ability, cation exchange capacity, decay resistance, photosynthetic capacity, morphology and anatomy, and [...]