Durham University's Ecosystem Science group are advertising a range of competitively-funded PhD projects at the interface of behaviour and ecology.

Projects include:

# Climate change and the management of alpine ungulates
# The ontogeny of personality in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)
# Developing spatially realistic cost functions for species dispersal routes under changing environmental conditions
# The population dynamics of an invasive species: the fallow deer (Dama dama)
# Behavioural and evolutionary ecology of lampreys - jawless archetypes in a 21st century landscape (fully funded)

To take advantage of all funding opportunities, candidates should apply by the 15th of February. Further details are available on our website:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/biological.sciences/research/groups/eco_env/studentship_opprtunities/

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Dr. Philip A. Stephens
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
University of Durham
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE, UK

Tel: +44 (0) 191 334 9102 (internal: 49102)
Fax: +44 (0) 191 334 1201

http://www.dur.ac.uk/philip.stephens/welcome.htm