PhD programme in AgroBioSciences Poplar and willow: from stress physiology to phytoremediation applications 18th April 2014 – 11:00-13:30 Aula 3, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa Fast-growing tree species, such as poplar and willow, have been studied as possible candidate in phytoremediation approaches to clean up soil or...
The curator will be a member of the Vascular Plants Team (c. 20 persons) of the Botany Unit. The team manages the herbarium collections of vascular plants (1.8 M specimens) and algae (22 000 specimens), carries out research on these groups, and takes part in mapping...
A post-doctoral position is available at the Department of Forest Ecology & Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.
MOTI: una innovativa APP forestale per aiutare i rilievi di campagna.
The professorship should focus on the ecology and dynamics of insect populations. Of particular interest is basic understanding of the population processes affecting distribution and abundance and how these processes interact with changing environmental conditions. Understanding of how population growth can be controlled is also central....
La Seconda Conferenza Europea di Agroforestry, organizzata dalla European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF) si svolgerà in Germania, in Cottbus, dal 4 al 6 giugno 2014. E’ aperta la call per l’invio degli abstract. Tutti i temi dell’agroforestry sono ben accetti, dai sistemi silvo-pastorali, alle siepi campestri, fasce tampone, vegetazione ripariale, phytoremediation con alberi, consociazioni tra colture arboree (da legno, frutto e ogni tipo), colture erbacee e/o zootecnica.
COST Call for Expression of Interest to participate in the COST Strategic Event A scientific roadmap for projections of global change impacts on forests Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27-28 August 2014 Background Europe’s forests contribute substantially to human prosperity and well-being. Forests have been subject to...
Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute) is very pleased to be advertising the following two PhD scholarships in systems biology of host-pathogen interactions under our Phytophthora Enabling Technologies MBIE program. These fully funded scholarships will be in collaboration with project partners Massey University and The University...
The Cost Action FP1301 EuroCoppice (www.eurocoppice.uni-freiburg.de) is organising a training school on Silviculture of coppice beech forests, 1-6 July 2014, in Sarajevo (Bosnia Herzegovina) see http://www.eurocoppice.uni-freiburg.de/intern/pdf/1st-training-school-faculty-of-forestry-university-sarajevo.pdf
La prima mappatura della copertura forestale e dei cambiamenti 2000-2012 disponibile globalmente ma realizzata a una risoluzione tale da poter essere utilizzata anche per scopi locali!
La Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, nell’ambito del progetto Laboratorio Expo, organizza una Expo School aperta a 20 tra neolaureati, studenti di dottorato, borsisti, assegnisti e giovani ricercatori. La scuola sarà tenuta a Milano e avrà una durata di 5 giorni (7-11 aprile) durante i quali i partecipanti...
University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada) is seeking two outstanding PhD students in chemical ecology. Current research in the lab explores questions of broad relevance to invasion biology of forest insects in novel environments, emphasizing ecological functions of plant secondary compounds and evolution of insect-plant interactions in...
Call for abstracts The IUFRO World Congress is pleased to announce a special call for abstracts for the IUFRO Incubator Session – aimed specifically for graduate students and recent graduates to present a summary of their BSc, MSc or PhD thesis work. The call for abstracts...
One-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at ZEF for mapping the forest cover in Central Asia Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a full time fixed term position for 1yr as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, Germany (http://www.zef.de)....
EFIMED has and open position for a Junior Researcher at the EFIMED Offices in Barcelona, Spain.
Glen R. Stanosz, Professor of Tree and Forest Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is interested in applicants to pursue M.S. or Ph.D. degrees while supported as a graduate research assistant. Position A: Investigation of the influence of tree age/extension of rotations, as well as site...
Titolo originale: Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size Autori: Stephenson NL, Das AJ, et al. Rivista: Nature, early view, 15 January 2014 doi: 10.1038/nature12914 Un articolo che rimette un discussione un’opinione ben radicata, che cioè gli alberi grandi e vecchi cessino di...
DE ACUERDO A LO ESTABLECIDO POR RESOLUCIÓN DEL CONSEJO DIRECTIVO DE LA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS FORESTALES de la UNaM Nro. 102/13 , SE LLAMA A CONCURSO PUBLICO DE ANTECEDENTES Y OPOSICIÓN PARA LA COBERTURA DE UN CARGO DOCENTE REGULAR, A PARTIR DEL 13 DE DICIEMBRE DEL...
From Nature to Technological Exploitations Florence, 2 – 5 September 2014
International course on Wood Anatomy of Tree Rings in Budweis (CZ) 25-31 May 2014