A highly qualified and motivated candidate is sought to develop a PhD study on the broad topic of fish and fisheries ecology, genetics, and conservation in the Jurua River in the Brazilian Amazon…
Sustaining Amazon floodplain biodiversity and fisheries under climate change
Working and learning with stakeholders to preserve Amazon River floodplain biodiversity and fisheries in the face of climate change
Our new project — funded by BNP Paribas — will combine remote sensing, hydrologic modeling, fisheries and habitat modeling, and participatory work with local riverine communities to develop policies and strategies to preserve Amazonian biodiversity and fisheries in the face of climate change. Involving researches from Brazil, France, UK, Canada, US, our lab’s contribution to this project will be developing empirical models of fish catch for all key commercial taxa, to project the effects on fisheries catch of altered river hydrology induced by potential future impacts of climate change.