Tropical Ecosystems PhD/Mphil

PhD

In Bangor

£ 13,300 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    PhD

  • Location

    Bangor (Wales)

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    September

Tropical Ecosystems with specialisations in:

Biodiversity
Human ecology
Long term environmental change
Sustainability in forest and agroecosystems

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bangor (Gwynedd)
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LL57 2DG

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

About this course





A first degree or MSc in a relevant subject is required.

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Subjects

  • Management
  • IT
  • Ecology
  • Biodiversity
  • IT Management
  • Conservation
  • Cycling
  • Sustainability
  • Ecosystems
  • Tropical
  • Tropical Ecosystems
  • Human Ecology
  • Long term environmental change
  • Agroecosystems
  • Forest

Course programme

The opportunities which are currently available are outlined below. • Antibiotic resistance in the environment • Biophysical benefits of shelter on livestock productivity • Biosecurity of different management techniques for bio-wastes • Carbon Cycling • Combining client-orientated and molecular breeding methods for biotic/abiotic stress resistance in crops • Completing the carbon balance of mangrove ecosystems • Control of carbon and nitrogen cycling in soil • Developing indicators of tropical forest sustainable management • Evaluating resource efficiency and environmental impacts of food and energy production systems • Forest ecosystem service provisioning in future drying climates • Forest restoration where multiple factors limit the rate of tree establishement • Impacts of land management on losses of diffuse pollutants • In-situ conservation of wild forest food for health and livelihoods • Is pathogen activity linked to infectivity? • Modelling farm management, exact topic depending on student's interest (e.g. production, climate change or biodiversity • Nutrient Cycling • Optimising the management of bio-wastes • Pb isotopes as geochemical tracers: evaluating the influence within-sample heterogeneity on their robustness as geochemical tracers • Phosphorus cycling in a mixed tree species stand • Prey preferences of large predators • Reducing the cost and adding value to animal by-products • Root & Mycorrhizal Ecology • Social and Economic issues in Conservation, Environment and Natural Resource Management • Soil Pollution • Step-change innovation for tracking landscape scale bee movements for pollination ecosystem services • The impact of climate change and predicted changes in river regime on the dynamics of metal fluxes within riverine environments • Threatened species conservation • Tree Species Community Ecology • Tropical forest resilience and silviculture • Using geometric morphometrics to discriminate three honeybee subspecies in the UK: An assessment of the beneficial and detrimental traits of hybridization • Using mapping populations to examine genetic and phenotypic variability in physiological, morphological and agronomic characteristics in spring barley

Tropical Ecosystems PhD/Mphil

£ 13,300 VAT inc.