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Adapting to extreme environments: Hybridisation and the evolution of contemporary heavy metal tolerance

Adapting to extreme environments: Hybridisation and the evolution of contemporary heavy metal tolerance

Climate change, urbanisation and exploitation of natural resources increasingly alter the environment, posing significant challenges for plants and animals. We have a poor understanding of how organisms will adapt to such rapid and widespread disruption, particularly in terms of their evolutionary responses. For species to adapt to such fast paced change, they will either need […]

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Extreme weather events exacerbate nitrous oxide emissions from soil (Extreme-N2O)

Extreme weather events exacerbate nitrous oxide emissions from soil (Extreme-N2O)

Accurate estimates of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions underpin national land use policy and subsequent targets, e.g. the recent UK target for net zero carbon emissions by 2050. However, modelling of terrestrial sources of nitrous oxide (N2O) using atmospheric concentrations reveals that the bottom up greenhouse gas inventory for UK N2O emissions is either missing a […]

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Pathways to Realistic Impact Modelling in Estuarine Areas (PRIMEA)

Pathways to Realistic Impact Modelling in Estuarine Areas (PRIMEA)

Estuaries connect terrestrial and marine environments, providing one of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. Complex land-sea interactions combined with intensive land-use and land-value mean that they are at heightened risk from flooding and poor health. Worse, they are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change, since sea-level rise of up to 1 m […]

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Artificial skyglow impacts on the chronobiology of marine organisms

Artificial skyglow impacts on the chronobiology of marine organisms

The ecological impact of artificial light at night has been a rapidly growing field of global change science in recent years. While understanding of direct lighting impacts (for example street lights) has improved dramatically, the effect of artificial skyglow (light that is scattered in the atmosphere and reflected back to the ground) on species behaviours […]

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Aerodynamic invasions: does the biomechanics of flight affect dispersal and genetic diversity in invasive species?

Aerodynamic invasions: does the biomechanics of flight affect dispersal and genetic diversity in invasive species?

Invasive species represent one of the most pressing threats to earth’s biodiversity. This ENVISION PhD studentship is an exciting opportunity to work at the interface of biomechanics and genomics to test timely questions in invasive species biology: What are the functional links between dispersal traits and genetic diversity in invasive species? How do dispersal traits […]

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Arctic sea-ice decline: An opening for more wind energy input to the ocean?

Arctic sea-ice decline: An ‘opening’ for more wind energy input to the ocean?

Arctic summers are now characterized by ever-expanding areas of open water exposed by the declining sea ice. This dramatic decline has input fresh meltwater to the surface ocean and created more openings for direct exchange of heat, freshwater and momentum (i.e. wind energy input) between the ocean and atmosphere. The expected increase in wind energy […]

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What lurks beneath: unravelling the chemically-guided ecological interactions of Armillaria fungi, a devastating group of subterranean forest pathogens

What lurks beneath: unravelling the chemically-guided ecological interactions of Armillaria fungi, a devastating group of subterranean forest pathogens

Armillaria species, are devastating fungal root-rot pathogens that affect over 500 woody plant species globally. They are facultative necrotrophs that colonise and attack the cambium of living roots, necrotising the living tissue, and ultimately killing the tree before switching to a saprophytic phase to decay the dead tissue. Infection is established via rhizomorphs, exploratory organs […]

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