The Plant Ecophysiology Research Group, at the School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban, South Africa), invite applications for the following: · 1 MSc (in grassland/forest ecology) · 1 PhD (on the ecophysiological responses of plants to climate change) · 1 Postdoc (on the ecophysiological...
segnalato da Giovanni Bovio Regione Piemonte, Corpo Forestale dello Stato, Università di Torino e Corpo Volontari AIB Piemonte organizzano il Convegno//Dimostrazione IL FUOCO PRESCRITTO PER LA PREVENZIONE DEGLI INCENDI BOSCHIVI, Ceva (CN) 10 –11 ottobre2013
Titolo originale: Climatic stress increases forest fire severity across the western United States Autori: Phillip J. van Mantgem, Jonathan C. B. Nesmith, MaryBeth Keife, et al. Rivista: Ecology Letters (2013), Early View doi: 10.1111/ele.12151 Recentemente in molte aree degli USA si sta cercando di contrastare l’aumento degli incendi con l’attuazione...
at School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh Position 1: Global Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation Our objective is to improve understanding of key processes in global carbon cycling by linking observations from towers, aircraft and satellites to terrestrial carbon cycle models. A critical challenge for process understanding...
Anche quest’anno sono previsti 5 premi di dottorato AISSA nell’ambito del XI Convegno annuale ” Food Security e Food safety: una sfida globale”, che si terrà presso la Facoltà di Agraria dell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Piacenza dal 12 al 14 novembre p.v. Per quest’anno...
l 10 Aprile 2013 gli stati membri di EU 27 hanno formalmente approvato la modifica alla direttiva 2003/98/EC della Commissione Europea sul ri-utilizzo delle informazioni della pubblica amministrazione, conosciuta come PSI (Public Sector Information) Directive. Il testo della modifica della direttiva PSI è disponibile qui: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/psi/docs/pdfs/directive_proposal/2012/it.pdf...
Titolo originale: Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise Autori: Trevor F. Keenan, David Y. Hollinger, Gil Bohrer, Danilo Dragoni, J. William Munger,Hans Peter SchmidAndrew D. Richardson Rivista: Nature, Vol 499, 324–327 (18 July 2013) doi: 10.1038/nature12291 L’articolo riporta una valutazione, basata...
Zurich, Switzerland We invite applications for a PhD project in our group working on the “Terrestrial carbon cycle (and global change)”. We seek to understand the influence of anthropogenic environmental change, such as increasing number of wildfires, temperature and atmospheric nitrogen deposition, on the terrestrial carbon...
Il Concorso LINFAs – Le Idee Nuove Fanno Agricoltura Sostenibile mette a disposizione 30 mila Euro per realizzare progetti di Agricoltura Sostenibile. Promosso da Fondazione Collegio delle Universita’ Milanesi e da Fondazione Italiana Accenture, il concorso e’ volto alla realizzazione di servizi e/o prodotti in ambito...
IX Congresso Nazionale SISEF MULTIFUNZIONALITÀ DEGLI ECOSISTEMI FORESTALI MONTANI: SFIDE E OPPORTUNITÀ PER LA RICERCA E LO SVILUPPO LUB, Bolzano, 16-19 Settembre 2013 Si informa che è disponibile all’indirizzo http://www.sisef.it/sisef/congresso-ix/ il programma definitivo dei lavori del IX Congresso SISEF, che si terrà presso la Libera Università...
Segnalato da: Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin Combined Workshop/PhD course in genomics based breeding in forest trees Copenhagen 16-19 September 2013 Genomics-based breeding of livestock, vegetables and other agricultural speciesis already an on-going and implemented discipline. Marker based breeding has particularly interesting possibilitiesfor forest trees – especially because...
Segnalato da: Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin, Fulvio Ducci Second call for Short Term Scientific Mission Deadline for submission is August, 16 2013 COST Action FP1202 “Strengthening conservation: a key issue for adaptation of marginal/ peripheral populations of forest trees to climate change in Europe (MaP-FGR)” Map FGR...
The Thünen Istitute for Climate-smart Agriculture is looking for a Research scientist (PhD student) to model atmospheric nitrogen deposition and its effects on greenhouse gas exchange in different ecosystems.
Postdoctoral Opportunities with the Jemez – Santa Catalina Critical Zone Observatory The University of Arizona is soliciting applications from prospective postdoctoral scientists to conduct collaborative research in the Jemez River Basin – Santa Catalina Mountains Critical Zone Observatory.
Titolo originale: The temporal response to drought in a Mediterranean evergreen tree: comparing a regional precipitation gradient and a throughfall exclusion experiment Autori: Nicolas K. Martin-StPaul, Jean-Marc Limousin, Hélène Vogt-Schilb, et al. Rivista: Global Change Biology Volume 19, Issue 8, pages 2413–2426, August 2013 doi: 10.1111/gcb.12215...
La famiglia Becich, in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali e il Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti dell’Università degli Studi di Udine, per ricordare il conte dott. Guido Becich istituisce un concorso per il conferimento di un premio di € 3.000 a un...
INRA – French National Institute for Agricultural Research First agricultural institute in Europe and second in the world, the French National Institute for Agricultural is recruiting experienced scientists through open competitions on the basis of a research project: 6 Experienced Research Scientists (4 year’s experience in...
Position announcement for a full-time, 1.0 FTE, 9-month tenure-track Associate/Full Professor position in Forest Operations and appointment as the Stewart Professor of Forest Operations at the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management (FERM) at Oregon State University (OSU), USA. Deadline for application: 31 July 2013....
PhD researcher in the framework of the project ‘Impact of stress on volatile organic compounds exchange between crops and the atmosphere’ The Unit of Biosystem Physics (ULg-GxABT, Prof. M. Aubinet) announces the opening of a position for a full-time PhD researcher for a period of four years (4...
We are seeking a motivated and interacting postdoc for a research project entitled Molecular basis of natural variation in stomatal CO2 responsiveness. The overall aim of the postdoctoral project is to elucidate the molecular basis of the evolutionary and environmental control of natural variation in stomatal...