Funded PhD studentship opportunity, October 2014 start
Department of Environment, Earth & Ecosystems, The Open Univeristy
Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA)
Closing date for applications : 31/01/2014
Past tropical vegetation stability: forest-savannah dynamics in tropical West Africa
William D. Gosling & Phil Jardine
- Maintain a modern pollen monitoring network in lowland tropical West Africa
- Reconstruct past vegetation change from fossil pollen records
- Identify signature of approaching tipping points
- Field work in tropical Africa (Ghana)
Ecology of the past 