Doctoral Researcher, Ecology and Genetics
About this role
Faculty of Science, Ecology and Genetics
The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 4000 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 19,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations. The University of Oulu is ranked in the top 3% of the world's universities. All our research, education, and community activities are guided by our university's values and ethical principles.
We are now looking for a
Doctoral Researcher
to join us, Global Change and Biotic Interactions Ecology -group, for the Research Council of Finland-funded project " Mechanisms of Plant Biodiversity Change ", both led by Prof. Anu Eskelinen (Eskelinen Research Group | Global Change and Biotic Interaction Ecology).
Description of the project
We are looking for a highly motivated and research-oriented person to carry out doctoral
research addressing the mechanisms of plant biodiversity change. In this project, we investigate
what are the roles of mechanisms related to spatial context, dispersal in space and time, biotic
interactions (competition, herbivory) and intraspecific trait change in driving heterogeneous
responses of plant biodiversity to different global change factors (e.g., climate warming, nutrient
enrichment). We aim for a more holistic understanding of plant biodiversity change in the
Anthropocene, being able to provide answers to questions: how, why and where plant
biodiversity changes. The specific research questions can relate, for example, to (1) the role of
temporal dispersal via soil seed banks as a diversity maintaining mechanism under multiple
global changes, (2) the role of intraspecific trait change in modifying the effects of climatic and
other global changes on plant biodiversi