Our first Update for 2020 is out. The ESP community has kicked off 2020 with a lot of activity and exciting plans for the year ahead.
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AGIT Symposium with focus topic on climate change
The At this year’s AGIT Symposium (8-10 July, Salzbur, Austria) a special focus theme is dedicaed to climate change. The Call for Papers is open until February 1, 2020. Contributions should ideally be in German.
AGIT takes place from July 8. – 10 in Salzburg, Austria and runs parallel to the English-language GI_Forum.
Survey: Supporting implementation of the CBD through national ecosystem assessments
As part of the project ‘Supporting implementation of the CBD through national ecosystem assessments’, funded by the Japan Biodiversity Fund, the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) are developing guidance around how national ecosystem assessments can support implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The following survey is a part of the development of this guidance. It should only take ten minutes to complete and can be accessed here.
Vacancy: PhD position in Ecosystem Services @UFZ
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) is offering a PhD position in Ecosystem Services, working at UFZ/iDiv in the ESuDis project within the DFG Biodiversity Exploratories project, led by Dr. Maria Felipe-Lucia in collaboration with Prof. Berta Martin-Lopez, Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
This project investigates the relationships between natural and anthropogenic capital on the supply of ecosystem services, and on the use and demand by different stakeholders, in order to understand its effects on the distribution of ecosystem services among stakeholders at multiple spatial scales. [Read more…] about Vacancy: PhD position in Ecosystem Services @UFZ
Vacancy: PhD candidate to relate ecosystem services to diversity of agricultural systems
The Environmental Systems Analysis (ESA) group at Wageningen University & Research is looking for excellent, open-minded & team-spirited PhD-researcher, eager to unravel the variety of worldwide agricultural systems and their related biodiversity and ecosystem services. The study will focus on pollination and natural pest control by exploring the dynamics in space and time of these ecosystem services.
You will work on the project: ‘Global modelling of biodiversity and ecosystem services for agricultural systems’. [Read more…] about Vacancy: PhD candidate to relate ecosystem services to diversity of agricultural systems