墨西哥国立自治大学生态系统研究中心招博士后

Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico and
Department of Biology, Stanford University

Land-sparing vs. land-sharing: including people’s needs and global heterogeneity

Meeting the challenge of future food security while sustaining the functioning of ecosystems and the flow of benefits to societies from them is a daunting task. Recent debates have discussed the pros and cons of land-sparing, intensifying agriculture in some areas while conserving biodiversity in others, and land-sharing, fostering mixed landscapes where food production and biodiversity conservation co-exist.
Yet, the human dimension has been absent from most of those discussions. The impacts of land-sparing or land-sharing on the flow of services from ecosystems to societies and on human well-being need to be assessed. Also, the strong differences in biophysical and societal conditions across the globe need to be incorporated in this discussion.
This project aims at quantifying the tradeoffs between food production, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services supply and human well-being. It will use global databases to assess the nature of these tradeoffs for contrasting regions of the world. It will use local data for sites with ongoing research on the topic to assess some of these tradeoffs in a few of the most contrasting regions of the world.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: Patricia Balvanera and Gretchen Daily
COLLABORATORS: Gerardo Ceballos, Paul Ehrlich, Erle Ellis, Jon Foley, Ruth de Fries, Louise Jackson, Robin Naidoo, Taylor Ricketts, Heather Tallis, Steve Polasky, Paul West

RESPONSABILITIES OF POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW: The post-doctoral fellow will compile readily available data and analyze it in collaboration with the principal investigators and a large team of researchers. The fellow is expected to produce two publications, one based on the global/regional analysis and another based on the local one.

TERMS OF AWARD: The post-doctoral fellow will be based at the Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas (CIECO), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. The fellowship is for two years starting March 2013.

*APPLICATION PROCEDURES *
Applicants are expected to provide:
- research proposal (8 pages double spaced, Times Roman 12, including literature , tables and figures) based on the proposal synthesis (available upon request),
- curriculum vitae
- PDFs of own selected publications (the most relevant to the project)
- two letters of recommendation

DEADLINES
Application submission by August 10 2012
Candidate selection by August 24 2012

INQUIRIES: Patricia Balvanera pbalvanera@cieco.unam.mx