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Stránka pokračuje dále na novém místě/ the webpage moved to new place: http://botany.natur.cuni.cz/botdokt - hope you'll like it (Tomáš Koubek - tomas.koubek na gmail.com) (10.3.2009)

1 PhD & 1 Post-Doc Position in Plant Invasion Ecology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland in study of Centaurea stoebe in regards of interaction of polyploidy and invasions. More here PDF.(23.2.2009)

Postdoc: The Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre (KBFSC) of Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) is currently offering a Research Fellowship for research on either of the following areas: Ecology, Forest Dynamics, Biodiversity. The fellowship, tenable at Universiti Brunei Darussalam and open to academics (finished PhD) and researchers of recognized universities/research institutions. More in DOC and also application form available.(23.2.2009)

Stáž: Německá spolková nadace pro životní prostředí (DBU, www.dbu.de) nabízí stipendium ve výši 1.060 Euro/měsíčně na 6 - 12ti měsíční stáže v SRN ve výzkumných ústavech, univerzitách, podnicích, nevládních organizacích. (český text DOC).(23.2.2009)

PhD announcement: A PhD position is available at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umea University, Sweden: Colonization ability of forest organisms. More in PDF.(23.2.2009)

Website for conference of Popbio conference (GfOe) is open: http://www.popbio2009.unibe.ch/ (23.2.2009)

PhD announcement: Lund University announces postgraduate scholarship in Environmental science: “Impacts of climate and land use change on biodiversity in Sweden” with placement at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis, Faculty of Science. More here (PDF) asap.(23.2.2009)

PhD announcement: PhD-position in group od Diethart Matthies at the University of Marburg. Contact them as soon as possible. (DOC) (23.2.2009)

Conference: V rámci Českého předsednictví pod záštitou Ministerstva školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy, se v Praze uskuteční konference s názvem "Researchers in Europe without Barriers", v termínu od 28. do 29. dubna 2009. Tímto bych vám chtěla připomenout, že je volných 300 míst a registrace je možná na oficiálních stránkách konference (http://www.eramobility.cz/). Po naplnění všech míst, bude stránka zrušena. (23.2.2009)

Postdoc is sought to work in a project on determinants of invasiveness and rarity of plants in the Plant Ecology group at the Institute of Plant Sciences of the University of Bern, Switzerland. Deadline is 22 February 2009! (DOC) (18.2.2009)

Seminář: Význam živin v travních a mokřadních ekosystémech se koná již 26. 2. 2009 od 9:00 hod. do 14:00 hodin v Brně na Botanickém ústavu. (DOC).(18.2.2009)

Request: Petition against reorganisation of science at Leiden university such, that many renowned evolutionary ecology scientists would be fired. Read more here: http://evodevo.eu/petition/ Isabelle Olivieri (28.1.2009)

Conference: Symposium Polyploidization, plant fitness and trophic interactions 7-8 September 2009 University of Fribourg Switzerland. Talk/poster submission deadline: 1 July 2009. Registration deadline: 1 August 2009 Web site: www.unifr.ch/biol/ecology/polyploidy More here (PDF). (27.1.2009)

Course: Methods in population biology will be held at the Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic from 16th to 20th February, 2009. More here (DOC). (27.1.2009)

Conference: 2nd International symposium on agricultural research 28-31 August 2009, Athens, Greece. The conference website is: http://www.atiner.gr/docs/Agriculture.htm (27.1.2009)

Conference: ESEB meeting in Turin, Italy, at August 29th 2009. http://www.eseb2009.it/ Deadline for abstract submission and early registration - 15th February 2009. More here (PDF). (27.1.2009)

Postdoc place: The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), is the UK’s Centre of Excellence for research in the terrestrial and freshwater environmental sciences. More here (DOC) - deadline is 2 February 2009!!! (27.1.2009)

Conference: Plant population biology in a changing world in BERN, 21-24 MAY 2009 - 22th Annual Conference of the Plant Population Biology Section of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria (GfÖ). Hosted by the Plant Ecology Group (http://www.botany.unibe.ch/planteco/), Institute of Plant Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern. 31 March 2009: Deadline for abstract submission and early registration (reduced fee!). First circular here (PDF). (27.1.2009)

Conference: Konference ČSPE se bude konat 17.-19.4.2009 v Ostravě - viz stránky společnosti. (22.1.2009)

PhD announcement: We are seeking a PhD student highly motivated to work on determinants of the invasiveness of clonal plants. The work will be part of a Sino-Swiss collaborative research project, which will involve field work in Europe and China, and experimentation on multiple clonal plant species in greenhouse and garden. The positions will be with Dr Mark van Kleunen and Prof. Dr Markus Fischer in the Plant Ecology group at the Institute of Plant Sciences of the University of Bern (http://www.botany.unibe.ch/planteco/index.php), Switzerland. Our collaborators in China are Dr Fei-Hai Yu, Prof. Dr. Ming Dong and a Chinese PhD student (position not filled yet) in the State Key Lab of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.The application deadline is January 15, 2009. More here (PDF).(17.12.2008)

Postdoc place: The Smithsonian Institution seeks two postdoctoral fellows in temperate forest ecology as part of the expansion of the Center for Tropical Science (CTFS) into the temperate zone. CTFS coordinates a network of large-scale long-term forest research plots in 16 tropical and 4 temperate countries. Review of applications will begin 30 November 2008. More here.(17.12.2008)

Course: ZALF Taught Modules 2009 "Methods in Landscape Analysis I + II” course takes place between 9 and 14 March 2009, and in summer 2009 (probably in September 2009). Deadline 15 January, 2009. http://www.zalf.de/home_zalf/sites/modules/index.html (17.12.2008)

Course: PhD Summer School on Ecological Restoration to be held from 29. 6. - 3. 7. 2009 in Münster/Germany. Further information can be found on the Summer School homepage: http://www.uni-muenster.de/Restorationsummerschool/index.html and in attached PDF.(17.12.2008)

Ph.D. announcement: Positions in Ecology and Functional Biodiversity Research at University of Freiburg, Germany (Dept. Of Evolutionary Biology and Animal Ecology) Application deadline: 31. December 2008 Start of the position 1.2. 2009. More info in PDF. (9.12.2008)

New journal: Ideas In Ecology And Evolution – a new open-access model dedicated to the rapid release of creativity in peer-review publication. More at http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE (9.12.2008)

Conference: International Conference on Polyploidy, Hybridization and Biodiversity (ICPHB 2009), May 17 – 20, 2009 – Palais du Grand Large – Saint Malo, France http://www.icphb2009.univ-rennes1.fr (2.12.2008)

Announcement: American Fund for Czech and Slovak Leadership Studies (AFCSLS) under Fulbright commission accepts applications until March 31, 2009. More information at http://www.afcsls.org/index.html (27.11.2008)

PhD announcement: A graduate research assistantship is available for a student pursuing a PhD focusing on shrub expansion in the Alaskan arctic. More information in PDF. Tuition begins in Fall 2009.(27.11.2008)

PhD announcement: Two PhD Positions (University of Bayreuth) - Effects of extreme weather events on ecosystem functions in temperate grassland and heath. More here (PDF). Deadline 12th December 2008. (27.11.2008)

Conference: 10th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions to be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa from 23 - 27 August 2009. Participants planning to present an oral or poster are encouraged to submit a tentative title by 30 November 2008 using our on-line submission form. More info in PDF. (4.11.2008)

Job announcement: A postdoctoral position and 4 PhD fellowships available in the area of Plant Invasion Ecology, working with Profs Phil Hulme and Richard Duncan in the Bioprotection Research Centre, Lincoln University, New Zealand (see attached). Deadline 14 November 2008 (21.10.2008)

Job announcement:Centre of Scientific Excellence “Frontiers in Biodiversity Research” at the Institute of ecology and earth sciences, University of Tartu, Estonia (http://www.botany.ut.ee/) wishes to recruit an enthusiastic post-doctoral researcher in the field of plant ecology, to undertake research on patterns of species diversity on various spatial scales. More info here. Deadline 20.11.2008 (21.10.2008)

Job announcement: Ředitel Botanického ústavu AV ČR, v. v. i., vypisuje výběrové řízení na dvě místa odborný pracovník výzkumu a vývoje resp. vědecký pracovník (každé s úvazkem 0,8) na pracovišti Oddělení ekologie v Brně. Více na http://www.ibot.cas.cz/news/konkurs_geobotanici-Brno.htm Deadline 5. listopadu 2008. Více v sekci Jobs. (21.10.2008)

Job announcement: Ředitelství AOPK ČR vypisuje dvě pracovní pozice - na vedoucího Odboru koncepcí se zaměřením na ochranu přírody a krajiny a odborného/u referenta/ku se zaměřením na ochranu přírody a krajiny na Oddělení pro evropskou spolupráci. (21.10.2008)

Job announcement: Správa CHKO Český kras shání schopného lesníka více v sekci Jobs. (20.10.2008)

Job announcement: New associate professor place in ecology open in Bergen. More here (PDF). (20.10.2008)

Conference: Výzkumný ústav rostlinné výroby pořádá 4.3 – 5. 3. 2009 konferenci na téma Vliv abiotických a biotických stresorů na vlastnosti rostlin 2009. Více ve druhém oběžníku (PDF). Registrace je možná (DOC), ale přednášky jsou již plné. (20.10.2008)

Seminar: Doktorandský seminář na BÚ AVČR 5.11.2008 srdečně zve všechny zájemce. Více viz PDF.(20.10.2008)

Job: Pracoviště AOPaK ČR ve Zlíně hledá botanika, nástup 1. ledna 2009. Více informací zde. (1.10.2008)

PhD announcement: 4 PhD positions in lab of Miguel Araújo. More information here (PDF).(26.9.2008)

Conference: Kostelecké inspirování 2008 se koná 28-29.11 v zámeckých prostorách v Kostelci nad Černými lesy. Podrobné informace o konferenci najdete v zde a také na adrese www.fzp.czu.cz/kosteleckeinspirovani . (26.9.2008)

PhD announcement: Offer of PhD position in Kiel, "Habitat Harz: The Environmental History of a Mountain Area and its Foothills" - more info in PDF and on webpage: http://www.uni-kiel.de/landscapes (23.9.2008)

Course: Invasibility of Plant Communities by Dr. Sarah Emery (University of Louisville, KY USA) will be held October 16-18, 2008 at Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague. More information in PDF. (23.9.2008)

Conference: 9th Clonal Plant Workshop, hosted by the University of Leuven (Belgium) between July 1st and July 4th 2009, registration is possible now. More info at http://bio.kuleuven.be/pleco/9CPsymposium/ (23.9.2008)

Job announcement: Hledá se druhý botanik na správu CHKO Slavkovský les! Více v sekci Jobs

Conference: The 52th IAVS Symposium on the island of Crete, Greece, 30 May - 4 June, 2009. The 2009 Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science will be held in the city of Chania on the island of Crete. Chania is the capital of the Prefecture of Chania, in western Crete. The main theme of the symposium will be 'Vegetation processes and human impact in a changing world'. For more information, consult the First Circular: http://www.iavs.org/2009-FirstCircular.pdf

Conference: 170 let ochrany a výzkumu Žofínského pralesa, Termín konání: 17. – 18. 10. 2008 Místo konání: Přírodovědecká fakulta Jihočeské univerzity v ČB, deadline 10. 7. 2008 (PDF) (4.7.2008)

Conference: Katedra ekologie a životního prostředí PřF UP ve spolupráci s AOPK ČR a EUROPARC Česká republika si Vás dovolují pozvat na konferenci Výzkum v ochraně přírody spojenou s plenárním zasedáním a odborným seminářem EUROPARC Česká republika, UP Olomouc, 9. - 12. září 2008, přijímány už pouze příspěvky bez aktivní účasti (1. cirkulář, 2. cirkulář) (4.7.2008)

Job announcement: Postdoctoral Position in Spatial Modeling of Vegetation Dynamics Global Ecological Change Laboratory Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Canada (immediate response), more info here (PDF) (4.7.2008)

Job announcement: Post Doc position in spatial population dynamics, Umea, Sweden deadline 15th August 2008 more here (PDF) (4.7.2008)

New journal: Journal of plant ecology (link), more here (PDF) (4.7.2008)

Link: A plant DNA flow cytometry database / Databáze průtokové cytometrie http://botany.natur.cuni.cz/flower/ (4.7.2008)

Job announcement: A Postdoctoral Fellow is sought in forest ecology or comparative biology of forest communities within the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS) at Harvard University. Deadline for applications is July 15, 2008. More info here (PDF). (25.5.2008)

Job announcement: Pracovník na plný úvazek pro sdružení Centaurea, více zde (PDF). (25.5.2008)

Job announcement: Five PhD Studentships are available in the project SECTORAL IMPACTS ON BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (SIMBIOSYS) in Dublin. Deadline is Friday 13th June 2008. More info here (PDF).(25.5.2008)

Conference: Všechny zájemce o výzkum a ochranu lesní vegetace zveme k účasti na pracovní konferenci ČBS nazvanou „Diverzita, dynamika a management lesní vegetace“, která se koná ve dnech 29. a 30. listopadu 2008. Abstrakty přijímáme na adrese botspol@natur.cuni.cz do 31. května 2008. Podrobnosti zde. (12.5.2008)

Conference: International scientific Conference „PHYTODIVERSITY OF THE CARPATHIANS: MODERN STATUS, CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION” will take place in September, 11-13, 2008 in Uzhgorod. (PDF) (12.5.2008)

Job announcement: Nabídka tématu pro doktorskou práci „Analýza deště semen a zásoby živých semen v půdě ve vztahu k reálné vegetaci v krajinném výseku CHKO Český kras“. (DOC) (12.5.2008)

Course: Workshop on maternal effects this year, August 25-27, in Switzerland. (PDF) (12.5.2008)

Conference: Second European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB 2009) will be held in Prague, Czech Republic on September 1 - 5, 2009.
Calls for Symposium, Workshop and Training Session proposals are open from May 05, 2008 to August 31, 2008. For more details visit the
website www.eccb2009.org . Call for oral/poster abstracts will be open from October 01, 2008 to January 31, 2009. (PDF) (12.5.2008)

Stipendia: Call for ConGen Short Visits and Exchange Grants - ConGen is pleased to inform you that a new Call for Exchange Grants has been launched. The Programme offers funding for a number of Exchange Grants of up to one month duration and a support of maximum 1500 EUR per grant. The deadline for application is 15 July 2008. In addition, ConGen is still offering funding for a number of Short Visit Grants (up to 15 days) related to the scientific objectives of the Programme.There is no fixed deadline for the submission of Short Visit applications. Funding decisions are taken by the ConGen Steering
Committee every two months. More information is available at: http://www.esf.org/congen Celý text zde. (25.4.2008)

Website: A new Special Interest Group devoted to the use or R in ecology has been created. We are anxious to grow the list and include anyone who is interested in R and its use in ecology, environmental science, and/or natural resources. The primary purpose of the R-sig-ecology is to provide a forum to discuss the use of R, through statistical methods, scripting, data management, etc., by those who are studying and analyzing ecological data. Additionally, through R-sig-ecology we hope to encourage and foster the use of R by ecologists and as such welcome users of all experiences.
If you are interested in ecology and R, head on over to https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology to subscribe. (23.4.2008)

Job announcement: Nabídka PhD místa na Botanickém ústavu AVČR pro projekt "Izolované populace rostlin a jejich vztahy se zdrojovými populacemi v evropských souvislostech". Deadline 25.4.2008. (14.4.2008)

Job announcement: Nabídka PhD/postdoc místa v projektu 7. rámcového programu EU (taxonomie a reprodukční biologie rostlin). Deadline 9.5.2008 (14.4.2008)

Conference announcement: Biodiversity on The Edge - International Youth Conference for the Protection of Biological Diversity, 13th - 19th Mai 2008, in Haus Annaberg, Bonn, Germany. More information here. (8.4.2008)

Course announcement: "A Primer in Ecological Networks: Theory and Practice" will be held June 16-20, 2008 at the University Campus (Viale Usberti) in Parma (Italy). More informations here. Website http://www.dsa.unipr.it/foodwebschool/ . (8.4.2008)

Request for collecting smut fungus Microbotryum violaceum - more information in new section (2.4.2008)

Job announcement: Nabídka brigády - sběr fytocenologických snímků a další práce. Více zde. (2.4.2008)

Job announcement: We are searching a PhD. student for a project “Effect of Insect Herbivore Guild Interactions on Population Dynamics of Plants“dealing with interactions of an invasive plant species Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) with various herbivores in the native range (Europe) and invasive range (USA) of Cirsium arvense. Deadline April 14th, 2008, more information here. Informace v češtině zde. (2.4.2008)

Conference announcement: European Meeting of PhD Students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB 14), 8th 13th September 2008, Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Website: http://www.empseb.unibe.ch/ a pozvánka zde. (2.4.2008)

Conference announcement: Konference "Venkovská krajina" se bude konat 23.-25. května 2008 v Hostětíně v Bílých Karpatech, více zde. K přihlášení je možné využít elektronický formulář, který je k dispozici zde. (2.4.2008)

Job announcement: Two Post-Doctoral positions, seven Ph.D positions are available within the multidisciplinary Chinese-European DFG Research Unit BEF China (FOR 891): "The role of tree and shrub diversity for production, erosion control, element cycling, and species conservation in Chinese subtropical forest ecosystems". Start May 1st, 2008. Closing dates 08.03.-31.03.2008. More information here (21.2.2008)

Job announcement: PhD Candidate in Population Ecology: Effects of climate change on regeneration processes in alpine grasslands (SEEDCLIM), University of Bergen, Norway. Application Deadline: March 11, 2008. More information here. (15.2.2008)

Conference announcement: Conference of PhD students of experimental plant biology, 8-11 April 2008, Nove Hrady, Czech Republic. Deadline 9 March 2008. More information here (14.2.2008)

Course announcement: Summer School in Bialowieza, Poland. 9-14 June 2008. All cost of participation are covered by EU. More information here. (13.2.2008)

Course announcement: Several advanced courses that will be held at the Dept. of Biology, University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2008 are at the website. (13.2.2008)

Conference announcement: Symposium “The evolutionary ecology of plant-animal interactions: from genes to communities" in Mallorca, 21-23 April 2008. More information at the website (13.2.2008)

Job announcement: Taxonomy Position in Iceland, Curator/Researcher. Deadline 15 March 2008. More information here. (11.2.2008)

Course announcement: Leland Russell (Wichita State University, Kansas, USA): Herbivory: the plant perspective, 21-23 April 2008, Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague. More information here. (8.2.2008)

Lecture announcement: Leland Russell (Wichita State University, Kansas, USA): Patterns and effects of herbivory in plant populations: examples from woodlands and grassland of the central U.S., 22 April at 15:00, Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague. (8.2.2008)

Job announcement: Postdoctoral Fellow (4 years) in Community Ecology: Effects of Climate Change on Regeneration Processes in Alpine Grasslands, University of Bergen, Norway. Deadline 28 February 2008. More information here. (30.1.2008)

Web page of the Ecological Society of the Czech Republic here (29.1.2008)

Conference announcement: Founding conference of the Ecological Society of the Czech Republic, 25 – 27 April 2008, Trebon, Czech Republic. More information here. (29.1.2008)

Conference announcement: Conference Environmental Sciences 2008, 13 – 14 March 2008, Prague, Czech Republic. Deadline 29 February 2008. More information here. (28.1.2008)

Conference announcement: 2nd Symposium on biology of non-weedy hemiparasitic Orobanchaceae, 27-30 August 2008, České Budějovice, Czech Republic. More information botanika.prf.jcu.cz/hemiparasites/ (22.1.2008)

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Job announcement: Scholarship of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) for the year 2009. Deadline 15.4.2008. More information here.

Job announcement: Information about international Visegrad scholarships here.

Conference announcement: Dry grasslands in a changing environment, 5th Annual Meeting of the German Dry Grassland Working Group, 1st Workshop of the Working Group on Dry Grasslands in the Nordic and Baltic Region, 28-30 August 2008, Ecology Centre, University of Kiel. More information here.

Conference announcement: 3rd International Symposium of Ecologists of Montenegro ISEM3, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, October, 2008. More information here.

Conference announcement: 5th European Conference on Biological Invasions; NEOBIOTA: Towards a Synthesis, Prague, Czech Republic, 23-26 September 2008. More information www.ibot.cas.cz/neobiota.

Conference announcement: EURECO-GFOE 2008: “Biodiversity in an Ecosystem Context”, Leipzig (Germany), 15.-19.9. 2008. More information www.eureco-gfoe2008.ufz.de.

Conference announcement: 6th European Conference on Ecological Restoration, Ghent (Belgium), 8-12 September 2008. More information www.ser2008.be

Conference announcement: International Statistical Ecology Conference, Scotland, July 2008. More information here.

Conference announcement: 6th International Conference on Pathways, Networks, and Systems. Chania, Crete, Greece. June 16-21, 2008. More information here.

Conference announcement: 3rd International Symposium on Environment, 22-25 May 2008, Athens, Greece. More information here.

Conference announcement: 21th Annual Conference of the Plant Population Biology Section of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria, 1-3 May 2008, Luxembourg. More information www.symposium.lu/popbio2008.

Conference announcement: Biodiversity Informatics and Climate Change Impacts on Life. April 5-6, 2008, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Conference website: www.danbif.dk/conference2008.

Conference announcement: GFÖ-specialist group “Restoration Ecology”, 3–6 April 2008. More information here.

Conference announcement: 7th workshop of the German working group on vegetation databases from 5-7 March 2008 at the University of Oldenburg. More information here.

Job announcement: PhD position in Plant Ecology and Systematics, Lund University. Deadline 22 February 2008. More information here. (28.1.2008)

Job announcement: PhD position in experimental plant ecology and climate change research in the research group Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics of the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Department of Conservation Biology, and Bayreuth University, starting in April 2008. Deadline 20 February 2008. More information here.

Job announcement: PhD position in a cross-disciplinary landscape ecological project that covers plant ecology and physical geography with the title: Land use change and effects of connectivity on past and present biodiversity patterns in the archipelago. The project is placed at the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology (Stockholm University). Deadline 15 February 2008. More information here.

Course announcement: Wildcard: Honza Roleček (Vegetace stredoevropskych nizinnych lesu v historickych a geografickych souvislostech), 30.1 - 1.2. 2008, Katedra botaniky v Praze. More information here.

Conference announcement: 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology: From the Mountains to the Sea. 13-17 July 2008, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to January 23, 2008. More information here.

User Survey: Forest Restoration Information Service. More information here.

Job announcement: Four PhD positions, “Biodiversity and plant-insect interactions in large scale and long-term land-use gradients”, University of Goettingen or University of Bayreuth, Germany, Deadline 20 January 2008. More information here.

Course announcement: Methods in population biology, Department of Botany, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic from 4th to 8th February, 2008. Details here.

Course announcement: School of Conservation Biology, Rovinj, Croatia, 20-28 June 2008. Registration deadline is 1 February 2008. All information and registration is available on-line at: http://www.hbd1885.hr/scb.

Job announcement: Two PhD positions in Plant Evolutionary Ecology at the UFZ in Halle, Germany. Deadline: 31.1.2008. More information here.

Job announcement: PhD position, “Biodiversity and plant-insect interactions in a grassland management gradient”, University of Goettingen, Germany. Deadline 20 January 2008. More information here.

Job announcement: International Research Chairs in Paris/Ile-de-France "Les chaires internationales de recherche Blaise Pascal". Deadline: 28.1.2008. More information here and at the website: www.chaires-blaise-pascal.org.

Job announcement: Post-Doctoral Fellowships-Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Deadline: January 15, 2008. More information here.

Job announcement: Grants for Wildlife Conservation and Research in Africa, Asia, North America and Latin America. Deadline is 11 January 2008. More information here.

Job announcement: PhD-position in plant ecology, Birmensdorf / Zürich, Switzerland. Deadline 1 January 2008. More information here.

Job announcement: Nabídka doktorandského místa na výzkum ekologie herbivorního hmyzu na Papui - Nové Guinei nebo v České Republice. Application until 1 January 2008. More information here.