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This project focuses on studying the effects of farm management on ecosystem service provision, biodiversity, grassland productivity, cultural value, and people’s livelihoods.
- It is an interdisciplinary and multi-actor European research project with partners in multiple countries.
- The project will address challenges derived from grassland intensification by assessing multifunctionality strategies at field, farm, and supply-chain level.
- This PhD position focuses on exploring grassland multifunctionality through modelling, specifically the effects of management in grass-based farms on biodiversity.
- Data is available from past and ongoing projects that will be used to assess the effects of management on biodiversity and ecosystem services applying modelling approaches from a specialized research group.
What you do
- Develop a Research Proposal and a Training and Supervision Plan, to structure the doctoral trajectory.
- Master the state of the art in ecosystem services delivery from grasslands under diverse management regimes.
- Investigate mechanistic relationships between grassland management, ecosystem services, and livestock productivity (e.g., regression analysis, mechanistic modelling, meta-analysis).
- Assess environmental and socioeconomic performance of dairy farms under diverse scenarios using a bio-economic optimization model.
- Disseminate the research results by writing papers and presenting your work at international conferences.
Profile
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills.
- Excellent in collaborating in large and multi-disciplinary teams.
- Good communicator to both fellow scientists and farmers.
- Open to learning about different types of models.
- Passionate about grass-based agriculture.
- Demonstrated acquaintance with dynamic, mechanistic models and/or optimization models.
- Experience with programming in R, GAMS, or Python.
- Successfully completed MSc degree in a relevant field, such as Agronomy, Animal Sciences, Plant Science, Environmental Sciences, or Integrative Agricultural Sciences.
- Affinity with the systems approach and/or interdisciplinary research.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Excellent command of English language (level C1).
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