ECOLOGY AND GLOBAL CHANGE: POTENTIAL PHD TOPICS
We have considerable experience in guiding students successfully through a PhD and helping applicants develop proposals and seek funding. Please see the list of potential projects below or submit your own research proposal and complete an application for PhD study. If indicated by "(NERC)", projects can be applied for in conjunction with the School's NERC studentship funding.
Tropical Ecology
- Has the hydrological cycle in the Amazon changed? An isotopic tree ring study (NERC)
- Are tropical tree growth rates increasing or decreasing?
- Floristic dynamics in tropical forests (FILLED)
Palaeoecology and Palaeoclimatology
- Long-term ecohydrological dynamics of ombrotrophic peatlands in Amazonia
- Tracing land-use changes in Icelandic lakes using thecamoebians (testate amoebae)
- Evaluating peat-based palaeohydrological reconstructions: data and modelling
- Long-term dynamics of peatlands along the Tibbitt-Contwoyto ice road, Arctic Canada
- Automated pollen analysis: applications in landscape-scale palaeoecology in Iceland
- Holocene and Lateglacial climatology and palaeolimnology at Nisi Fen, Greece
- Four thousand years of tropical forest history at Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana
- Quantitative assessments of soil erosion in Iceland
Tempo and mode of Plio-Pleistocene vegetation changes at Ioannina, W Greece
