Doctoral Researchers in Coastal Biodiversity and Carbon Cycling

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description We are seeking five doctoral researchers to join the CoastClim Biodiversity PhD Collegium at Tvärminne Zoological Station, where the five complementary doctoral projects investigate how species composition, functional traits, interactions and community change regulate coastal carbon cycling. The doctoral researchers will be joined by two new postdoctoral researchers (see short description below and full application details on University of Helsinki open positions page ). Coastal ecosystems are changing rapidly, with consequences for biodiversity, carbon cycling and climate feedbacks. We address these issues in CoastClim , the Centre for Coastal Ecosystem and Climate Change Research. A central CoastClim hypothesis is that healthy and degraded ecosystems differ in how biodiversity regulates carbon production, storage, transformation and release. Yet the ecological mechanisms behind these differences remain poorly understood. All five PhD projects share biodiversity and carbon cycling as their scientific core, while addressing complementary mechanisms across coastal habitats and spatial and temporal scales. Cross-cutting themes include environmental disturbance, multiple stressors, temporal community change, functional diversity and benthic–pelagic interactions. Field manipulations, laboratory experiments, long-term observations and biogeochemical measurements will build on CoastClim's