Vision summary
The vision of ECOGLOBE is to expand substantially our knowledge base on climate change effects in ecosystems utilising comparative studies along current climate gradients. In-depth studies of biological responses to the increasing extremes of climate changes constitute a key challenge for 21st century science. They will have great impacts on biodiversity, biogeochemical cycles and ecohydrology. To meet this challenge, we envision an educational PhD initiative embracing an interdisciplinary approach to environmental sciences in a climate change perspective. This involves the formation of scientific and educational collaboration across the departments of NERI, AU utilising also the strong links NERI have developed to other national and international research institutes. The PhD’s will use the rapidly increasing amount of environmental data collected by NERI, AU from the Danish Monitoring Programme, at the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) and other monitoring programmes and research studies in Greenland, South America, southern Europe, and data collected by the 3rd Galathea expedition. New statistical as well as conceptual modelling tools will be used to understand the climate invoked patterns and processes at different spatiotemporal scales, as well as the application of experimental work in laboratory and field and new socially-based analyses of ecosystem services.

Objective
The scholars shall be integrated into strong research groups and investigate the effects of climate change extremes on shifts in ecosystems and ecosystem services utilising scientific methods such as the Space for Time concept, controlled experiments, policy analysis and statistical and conceptual modelling of ecosystem responses in different environmental compartments.

PhD courses

PhD students

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