-------- Original Message --------Subject: CTFSNet: Job Announcement: Postdoctoral fellowship in spatial ecological analysis & modeling
We are looking to recruit a dynamic Early Career Researcher with a
proven track record in ecological theory, spatial mathematical or
statistical modeling and/or software development to address a number of
exciting projects funded by 3 EU projects (EU-BON, SCALES and ExpeER):
*Developing spatial niche models *(EU-BON, SCALES). Niche models are widely used to predict species distributions and to forecast responses to future environmental change. However, classical bioclimatic niche models have been criticized for ignoring the spatial structure of populations, greatly reducing their predictive power. Conversely, spatial downscaling approaches rely exclusively on spatial patterning to infer fine scale occupancy, but are insensitive to environmental predictors of where such populations should be found. The goal here is to develop a hybrid approach, one that takes advantage of both spatial and environmental pattern information. These approaches will be tested and applied to high-quality biodiversity datasets.
*Application deadline*: _14 March 2013_. For information contact Bill Kunin: /w.e.kunin@xxxxxxxxxxx/ <mailto:w.e.kunin@xxxxxxxxxxx>*For further details and application materials: **/http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/*, Reference:*FBSBY0002*
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