FP6Докторантска мрежа2005–2009

BIOCONS · European centre for biodiversity and conservation research

6РП — Действия „Мария Кюри“

Период: 2005-09-01 → 2009-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 1 693 033 €
Участници: 1
Схема: EST

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Накратко на български

Биоразнообразието и опазването на природата се изследват чрез теми като контрол на инвазивни видове и динамика на тропическите гори. Тези проучвания помагат за развитието на науката за консервацията и подготвят нови специалисти в областта.

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Резултати накратко

Final Activity Report Summary - BIOCONS (European centre for biodiversity and conservation research)

The project contributed to the professional education of 23 biodiversity and conservation scientists, helping redress regional (5 eastern Europe, 7 southern Europe, 6 international and 5 NW Europe fellows) and gender (73 % of fellows were female) biases in the field. The BIOCONS project was broadly interdisciplinary, with approaches ranging from evolutionary biology, through genetics and ecology, to environmental science and ecological economics. This helped ensure a wide ranging set of supervisory expertise, and a broadly collaborative research environment. The project pursued by the Marie Curie doctoral fellows varied greatly, ranging from monitoring and control of invasive alien species (Polce, Imhoff) through dynamics of tropical rainforests (Peh), the effects of harvesting on evolution (Zannese) to seabird (Riou) and bat (Jan) conservation. Short-visit and masters fellow project varied at least as widely, including work on the environmental implications of energy crops (Tenerelli), the economic and ecological implications of the water framework directive (Xenarios) the genetic structure of Polish red deer populations (Niedzialkowska), the dynamics of fig-wasp pollination mutualisms (Chen) and biodiversity dynamics in both hoverflies (Keil) and fossil assemblages (Stachniuk). A wide range of training opportunities were provided, ranging from the coordinated sets of modules of our Masters programme, through a wide variety of skills modules and training activities both within the university and external to it. Taken as a whole, the BIOCONS EST programme has made a substantial contribution to training a cohort of world class researchers, who we fully hope will continue to contribute to the progress of conservation science for many years to come.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The importance of biodiversity conservation is recognised by the EU and its member states, and enshrined in law and treaty. Delivering on these commitments will require a European workforce with the technical expertise, practical conservation experience an d scientific understanding to apply appropriate techniques to complex practical problems. The Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation at the University of Leeds is an established Centre of Excellence in teaching and research, with an interdisciplinary structure encompassing a wide range of relevant fields of research. This broad base of established scientists makes the CBC a world-class training facility for work on the processes maintaining natural diversity, the tools for measuring and mapping it, and the techniques for preserving it in a changing environment.Our proposed EST programme will extend an existing FP5 Marie Curie Training Site. We will provide three distinct forms of Fellowships under the new agreement: short-term visiting fellowships for specific research training, full-year Masters fellowships for broader training in biodiversity and conservation research, and three-year PhD fellowships for professional-level research training. All three involve a mixture of structured training, research and complementary skills instruction, and research experience, and provide opportunities for direct collaboration with biodiversity conservation professionals.The University of Leeds boasts excellent libraries, and state-of-the-art laboratory, field and computational facilities for biodiversity and conservation training and research. The CBC has a strong record of training early stage researchers, and our graduates have fared well in their subsequent careers, with 2/3 of MRes students continuing to PhDs and 60% of PhDs continuing on to postdoctoral or academic posts.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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