The iES Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University (RPTU) Kaiserslautern-Landau, Campus Landau, Germany offers 14 doctoral research positions (65%, PhD students) (m/f/d) in the framework of the research training group 2360 SystemLink - Crossing boundaries: Propagation of in-stream environmental alterations to adjacent terrestrial ecosystems funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The 14 PhD researchers will jointly work on a large field study across Europe on aquatic-terrestrial ecosystem linkages under anthropogenic stress (e.g. invasive species, molecular ecology, eco-evolutionary dynamics). In addition, they may conduct experiments in unique aquatic-terrestrial mesocosm facilities combined with laboratory research, or develop and apply process-based environmental models. Please send your applications (1 pdf file, max 10 MB), specifying for which topic(s) you apply, with a 1-page letter of motivation, a reference letter from a mentor, degree certificates, a CV and a list of publications/presentations until 14 March 2025. Further information at: https://jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/ef5043d0e63297c5c4e0831ae8c4d58a4fcec7 d40 More details on the announced positions and on the application procedure please see https://systemlink.rptu.de/ or contact the speaker of SystemLink Ralf Schulz (r.schulz@rptu.de). "Prof. Dr. Klaus Schwenk" (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)