Are you interested in restoration ecology and in gaining research experience on a topic with a high societal impact? Would you like to do a master’s project with field work this summer? Come and join our research team at the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences in Umeå (Sweden) to help improve the understanding of mire and swamp restoration.
About 1.5-2.0 million hectares of natural peatlands have been drained during the past century in Sweden. To counteract this, rewetting drained mires and swamps in boreal forest is a promising measure to reduce carbon emissions in the face of climate warming, to increase water quality and to improve human health and well-being. However, and despite a growing interest among policy makers, stakeholders and the forestry industry in and beyond Sweden, little is known about the consequences of peatland restoration on biodiversity.
Your project will consist in helping to design, carry out and analyze the inventory of key taxa on newly restored peatlands in northern Sweden. This will enable to quantify the recovery of biodiversity after peatland restoration.
With this project, you will acquire or reinforce some of the following skills:
• designing the sampling of ecologically relevant data
• carrying out an ecological survey in the field
• collaborating in a small team
• identifying taxa such as dragonflies, butterflies, spiders, mosses and other plants, in the field and in the lab
• analyzing ecological datasets
• communicating scientific findings
• evolving in a stimulating research environment at SLU
Keen to join? Please send a brief description of your background and motivation:
Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental studies, SLU Umeå, Sweden
https://www.slu.se/en/departments/wildlife-fish-environmental-studies/
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