Dr. Sewall has won a three-year National Science Foundation grant for a project to study community structure and dynamics in ecological communities. The project builds on some of Dr. Sewall’s previous research, and focuses on improving theoretical and empirical understanding of mutualistic networks, the sets of mutually-beneficial interactions that link diverse species within ecological communities. The research will focus on interactions between frugivores (fruit-eating animals such as primates, fruit bats, and birds) and fruit-bearing trees within a tropical dry forest in Madagascar. The project has been funded by NSF’s Division of Environmental Biology Population and Community Ecology Program. Dr. Amy Freestone, also of Temple University, is a co-PI on the grant.
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We have open postdoctoral fellow positions including one beginning in early to mid 2024 on Butterfly Ecology and Conservation and another with a flexible start date on Quantitative Ecology and Conservation Biology (see Opportunities page)
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We have open doctoral positions beginning in summer or fall of 2024 on Protecting Hibernating Bats from White-Nose Syndrome and the Ecology and Conservation of Rare and Threatened Butterflies
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Other opportunities are also available for postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate students (see Opportunities page)