The post-doctoral fellowship programs Juan de la Cierva (three years fellowship) and Ramón y Cajal (5 years fellowship) have launched a new call for proposals. The Ungulate Research Group placed at the Game and Fish Research Center (Cátedra de Recursos Cinegéticos y Piscícolas (CRCP)) at Córdoba University (Spain) and the Extremadura University (Cáceres, Spain) welcomes researchers interested in working on the topic “Ungulate Ecology and Behaviour in Mediterranean habitats, aimed at Conservation and Game Management”. The aim of this research is to study different characteristics of the biology of these species that can be applied to their conservation such as genetic alteraction and admixture, artificial selection, prevalence of diseases, density, impact on vegetation, mating systems, sexual selection. The species involved are red deer, wild boar, roe deer, Spanish ibex, fallow deer, Barbary sheep and mouflon. This research group offers other investigation topics, always related to game management, that can be browsed in our websites
Call regulations can be found on the BOE no. 315, December 28th 2010 (the call is only in Spanish).
Interested researchers contact the PI of the research group (Prof. Juan Carranza) before February 2011.
Email: dir.crcp@uco.es
Telephone number: +34 957 21 20 25
For further information about requirements of the call look up the «Cursos» section.