Are you a keen student interested in looking at the effects of climate change on insect species? Would you like to gain lab skills alongside field work experience? The School of Life Sciences at the University of Lincoln is offering competitive funding for 2 PhD scholarships and 4 Masters by Research (fee and research funds covered). I am offering a Masters by Research project looking at the sublethal effects of climate change, and specifically increasing temperatures, on insect reproduction. Much empirical work has focused on critical thermal limits, lethal temperatures beyond which individual survival is compromised. What about sub-lethal temperatures? These might be a much more important driver of climate change effects on species distributions. Sub-lethal temperatures have been shown to induce sterility: so an individual will survival heat stress but become sterile. Are there any costs to heat-stressed individuals for future generations? Do the sexes respond equally to heat stress? Much research is needed in this area. Deadline 28th June 2019. Further details and application details available at: https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/lifesciences/postgraduatestudentships/
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