PhD Student 100% (m/w/d)

Biodiversity-inspired lake modeling – linking processes from cells to ecosystems.

Climate change is causing lake surface waters to warm, which increases thermal stratification and can reduce nutrient input from deeper waters. This project will upgrade mechanistic lake models to incorporate greater planktonic biodiversity to (a) predict diversity and community composition responses to combined gradients of warming and changes in resource availability (light, nitrogen, and phosphorus), and (b) improve predictions of ecosystem properties and functioning by including the impacts of phytoplankton diversity and composition.

Research team and funding

International collaboration between research groups at Eawag, Wageningen University, NIOO‑KNAW, and the University of Rhode Island. Project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation Lead Agency process.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will mainly conduct controlled laboratory exp...