Thesis supervisor: Anna Mária Csergő
Location of studies (in Hungarian): Department of Botany and Soroksár Botanical Garden Abbreviation of location of studies: NT
Description of the research topic:
Due to global climatic changes, plants are exposed to increasingly variable and unpredictable environments. As a result, the amount and the spatial arrangement of conditions suitable for plant population persistence are altered, and species’ geographic distribution is changing. The persistence of local populations or their ability to follow the rearrangement of the suitable habitats depend heavily on the strategies of persistence that plants have acquired over their evolutionary history. Life histories more responsive to unpredictable environments might be more successful in the face of global climatic changes than those linked to stable environments. The relationship between the persistence strategies available to different plant species and populations and species’ geographic distribution is not well understood, yet it can be critical when projecting future range changes.
The PhD student will work at the interface between plant demography and biogeography in a global comparative analysis. He/She will contribute to global change biogeography projects currently running in my lab (https://annamariacsergo.weebly.com/) while acquiring quantitative skills including ecological modeling in R and using large demographic and biodiversity databases.
The PhD project will be developed collaboratively between the Department of Botany and Soroksár Botanical Garden at Szent István University in Budapest, Hungary, the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna, Austria and the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Candidates will have strong interest in quantitative ecology and be fluent in English. Knowledge of German is desirable, but not mandatory.
PhD fellowships are available via the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme: https://tka.hu/international-programmes/2966/stipendium-hungaricum/. Deadline for applications is 15 January 2019.
Number of students who can be accepted: 1
Deadline for application: 2019-01-15
2024. IV. 17. ODT ülés Az ODT következő ülésére 2024. június 14-én, pénteken 10.00 órakor kerül sor a Semmelweis Egyetem Szenátusi termében (Bp. Üllői út 26. I. emelet).
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