Modelling waterfowl distribution and abundance in Canadian boreal forest
A PhD position in wildlife habitat modelling is available in the
Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval, in
collaboration with Ducks Unlimited Canada. The position will be funded
via an NSERC/FQRNT IIS scholarship of $27,000/yr for 3yr. The project
concerns the analysis of an extensive suite of repeated-measures aerial
waterfowl surveys. As part of a graduate thesis, the student will
develop mixed-effects models to relate species abundances and
distributions to a suite of biophysical covariates. The student will be
associated with several research groups focussed on national-scale
spatial simulation of ecological processes in the Canadian boreal: see
Boreal Avian Modelling (http://www.borealbirds.ualberta.ca).
Applications to spatial simulation for forest management and
conservation planning may be developed in the course of the thesis,
depending on the interests of the student. Click here for more information.
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