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Closing date for applications: 31
March 2010
The
Postgraduate Bursaries are
available to students who are
registered or intending to register
full-time for MSc, PhD or
Post-Doctorate degrees in 2010 at
any university which has the
resources to support the intended
field of research. The bursaries
are funded by the Grasslands
Programme and funding requests of
up to R100 000 will be approved if
they have sufficient merit.
Field of Study:
The
Postgraduate Bursaries will support
priority research areas identified
from the grasslands research
strategy (copy of the research
strategy available from
www.grasslands.org.za).
Research projects must demonstrate
linkages with topics identified in
the research strategy under these
themes:
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Research on pressures, threats
and adaptation of the grasslands
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Quantifying and monitoring
biodiversity and ecosystem
services
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Predictive understanding of
ecosystem response to change
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Supporting conservation actions
and plans by Conservation
authorities
Preference will be given to
research projects that support the
implementation of the
UNDP-GEF-funded programme of
mainstreaming biodiversity
objectives into major production
sectors operating on the grasslands
biome, namely, agriculture, urban,
forestry and coal mining.
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 The
Journal of Pollination Ecology
is an open access online journal
that aims to promote the exchange
of original knowledge and research
in any area of pollination issues.
The Journal of Pollination
Ecology is a peer-reviewed
journal, which publishes original
research articles, short
communications and review articles
in all fields of pollination. The
emphasis will be on publishing
quality papers rapidly and freely
available to researchers and the
public worldwide.
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 Many
of you might be familiar with the
MAPA project - the folks who drive
around Africa mapping protected
areas for Google Earth. Google
Earth, in turn, has given MAPA a
digital map on which to pin
information about these protected
areas, which MAPA is using to
develop a story board of
conservation in Africa (see the
attached one-pager, and let me know
if you’d like a more detailed
information document).
MAPA’s digital map includes
information bubbles on protected
areas, priority wildlife
(threatened animal and plant
species), priority habitats such as
biodiversity hotspots, endemic and
important bird areas, Ramsar sites,
World Heritage sites and biosphere
reserves, blogs, articles and
media. Most importantly, we at MAPA
would like the map to
comprehensively cover research and
conservation activity in Africa.
For this we need you to help us, by
adding your research project to the
database (and asking other
researchers to do the same). On
Google Earth your research project
will look more or less like the
attached example, with up to five
different tabs, depending on how
much information you decide to add.
You can embed videos and blogs, add
photos, add links to popular and
scientific articles, links to your
own, more detailed website, links
to the homepages of your funding
and affiliated organisations, links
to more detailed information on
your study species, and (coming
soon) upload telemetry tracks and
wildlife distribution maps. You
decide how much or how little you
want to add - the content is
entirely up to you.
Adding your project is a very
simple affair, and won’t take you
long: simply reply to this email (alta.devos@gmail.com),
and I will send you a password (for
quality control - we don’t want
“the effect of researcher hiking
boots on the aura of lions” on
there!) and instructions. You can
then login to the online database
and add your information. We don’t
have a facility for you to preview
your KML files (digital mapping
files that overlay onto Google
Earth) yet, but I can send you a
screenshot of your project and what
it will look like if desired.
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