The Plant Ecology Group at ETH Zürich is seeking an enthusiastic PhD candidate to study the factors underlying the success of assisted migration of mountain plants that are threatened by climate change. The PhD candidate will be based in the Plant Ecology Group at ETH Zürich (Prof. Jake Alexander), and work collaboratively with the Ecology Group at University of Basel (Prof. Sabine Rumpf), and the Flore-Alpe Alpine Botanical Garden (Prof. Christophe Randin). The position is funded for 4 years.
The PhD candidate will work within a larger project involving scientists, policy makers from federal and cantonal administration, and practitioners from conservation and industry, with the overarching goal of establishing guidelines and launching an assisted migration programme for mountain plants in Switzerland that are threatened by climate change. The role of the PhD candidate will be to collect ecological data allowing an assessment of the reasons for rarity and ecological (niche, range) limits of threatened mountain plants, and use this knowledge to understand variation in the success of assisted migration projects. Their tasks will involve collection and statistical analysis of demographic monitoring data in natural populations, setting-up and running field transplant experiments, and ecological niche modelling of focal species.
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