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Drawing European silver fir’s ecological species distribution map
Accurate species distribution data are essential for many ecological, evolutionary, and conservation related research. Your task will be defining the distribution range of silver fir across the Western Alps and the Apennines, along with describing the forest types where the species appears.
Keywords: species distribution, conifers, ecology, forest, management, conservation, Europe
Accurate species distribution data are essential for many ecological, evolutionary, conservation and global change related research. Sources of presence-absence data may strongly diverge for many species, including the most common European trees. Further, for most ecological and evolutionary research questions, species presence-absence is not sufficient, but also ecological data (such as abundance, forest species composition, stand age, management scheme) is required.
Accurate species distribution data are essential for many ecological, evolutionary, conservation and global change related research. Sources of presence-absence data may strongly diverge for many species, including the most common European trees. Further, for most ecological and evolutionary research questions, species presence-absence is not sufficient, but also ecological data (such as abundance, forest species composition, stand age, management scheme) is required.
Some of your tasks:
1. obtain, harmonize, and combine data from different sources on the presence/absence of silver fir across the Western Alps and Apennines
2. collect additional ecological information, such as proportion of silver fir in the stand/forest, presence/abundance of other species, history and management scheme applied, forest’s age, autochtonous status
3. summarize your data as different map layers
Required skills: Good communication and organization skills, a priori knowledge of a GIS tool will be an advantage. Excellent written and oral German and/or French, good working of English. Italian is a plus!
Some of your tasks: 1. obtain, harmonize, and combine data from different sources on the presence/absence of silver fir across the Western Alps and Apennines 2. collect additional ecological information, such as proportion of silver fir in the stand/forest, presence/abundance of other species, history and management scheme applied, forest’s age, autochtonous status 3. summarize your data as different map layers
Required skills: Good communication and organization skills, a priori knowledge of a GIS tool will be an advantage. Excellent written and oral German and/or French, good working of English. Italian is a plus!