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Division of Biology, Section of Ecology and Evolution, Imperial College London 

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Synchrony in Metapopulations at Multiple Time scales: Theory, Experiments, and Field Data

A postdoctoral position will be available for three years from Autumn 2011 to research metapopulation dynamics and synchrony in the laboratory of Dr Daniel Reuman. The post will be funded as part of a Natural Environment Research Council grant. The post will be based in the Division of Biology at Silwood Park, Imperial College London.

The successful candidate will study metapopulation dynamics of several field and laboratory species. Coincident temporal variation in the abundances of spatially separated populations is called population synchrony; it has been detected in many species of insects, fish, amphibians, birds, mammals and other clades, even at large distances. Synchrony has conservation implications: a metapopulation with component populations fluctuating in synchrony is vulnerable to extinction because populations are simultaneously rare. Synchrony is thought to have two main causes: dispersal and spatial synchrony of environmental variables (called the