Doctoral Student Range shifts of mountain plants

Doctoral Student Range shifts of mountain plants

The Plant Ecology Group at ETH Zürich is seeking a doctoral student to study why mountain plant species are failing to shift their ranges fast enough to track climate change. The candidate will be based in the at ETH Zürich, Switzerland (Prof. Jake Alexander), and work in close collaboration with the Hargreaves Lab at McGill University, Canada (Prof. Anna Hargreaves). While range shift lags are well documented across taxa and regions, we have a much poorer empirical understanding of the demographic processes explaining lags, hindering our ability to forecast which species will track climate change, or which management practices might aid shifts of valued species or delay shifts of problem species. The candidate will conduct empirical research within a larger project focused on closing key knowledge gaps about the mechanisms underlying plant range shifts in mountains.

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