About this role
- Study at WUR Bachelor's Master's - Collaborate with WUR - Themes - Study at WUR - Collaborate with WUR - About WUR - PhD Exploring grassland multifunctionality through modelling Career at WUR About us - Plenty of variety and challenges - Pleasant working atmosphere - Time for personal development - Proper work-life balance - Internationally leading Your job Grasslands cover large areas in Europe and foster potential to provide multiple functions, such as ecosystem services. The Horizon Europe GrassConnect project aims to study the effects of farm management on ecosystem service provision, biodiversity, grassland productivity, cultural value, and people's livelihoods. GrassConnect is a recently granted, interdisciplinary, and multi-actor European project with 31 partners in 14 countries. GrassConnect will address challenges derived from grassland intensification, by assessing multifunctionality strategies at field, farm and supply-chain level, and aid decision-making to increase the provision of ecosystem services from grasslands. Within this project, we offer a PhD position 'Exploring grassland multifunctionality through modelling ' to study the effects of management in grass-based farms in the Netherlands on biodiversity. This PhD position will focus on grass-based production systems in the Netherlands, whereas GrassConnect will offer the opportunity to engage with other partners covering different grassland systems, production systems and pedo-climatic conditions. Some farm data is available from past and ongoing projects. After searching, selecting, and analyzing, the data will be used to assess the effects of management on biodiversity and ecosystem services applying modelling approaches from the Animal Production Systems group of Wageningen University & Research. The candidate will be based on the campus of Wageningen University & Research. Your duties and responsibilities include: - Develop a Research Propo...