We are seeking a postgraduate student for a 3 year PhD (starting in fall 2011) on the interplay between the choice of spawning site, early stage survival and sexual selection in brown trout. The project is managed by researchers from the UMR INRA-UPPA ECOBIOP (St Pée/Nivelle, France) and the Stream Ecology Group at University of Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain).
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Candidates should be kin on field work, and competent in experimental procedures and statistical / theoretical modeling.
Please send application (CV, name of two referees) to jacques.labonne@st-pee.inra.fr and cedric.tentelier@univ-pau.fr before the end of september 2011.