Moths in the margins: developing and testing tools to determine the protection provided by agricultural field margins

边缘的飞蛾：开发和测试工具以确定农田边缘提供的保护

• 批准号: 2754713
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2754713
• 关键词: Moths; margins; developing; testing; tools

PhD opportunity based at the UK Centre for Ecology Lancaster with degree award from Cardiff UniversityThis project will address the real-world challenge of optimising the effectiveness of pesticide-impact mitigation strategies in the field. It will incorporate cutting edge interdisciplinary pollution science into on-the-ground conservation action, developing a methodological toolkit to measure the bioavailability, uptake and effects of pesticide spray drift on non-target Lepidoptera inhabiting farmland habitats.This work is vital because current pesticide licensing procedures do not test a sufficient number of non-target species. This results in an under-estimation of the impacts of pesticides on wild populations (e.g. Lepidoptera) critical for maintaining important ecosystems. To assess the impact of pesticide exposure, we need methods that adequately measure true exposure levels of organisms over small spatial scales in the field, specifically allowing us to i) measure the effects of pesticide spray drift on non-target organisms, and ii) assess the effectiveness of pesticide impact mitigation measures, like field margins, that are used to reduce the amount of spray drift that reaches organisms living in/around farmlands.The project will work at the interface of experimental ecotoxicology, genomics and conservation ecology under the supervision of experts in these complementary fields. The project will be based in UK CEH (UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) in Oxfordshire, but will provide opportunities to spend extended time working at the RSPB and Cardiff University.

在英国兰开斯特生态中心获得博士学位的机会，并获得卡迪夫大学的学位。该项目将解决优化农药影响缓解战略在该领域的有效性的现实挑战。它将把尖端的跨学科污染科学纳入实地保护行动，开发一种方法工具包，以测量农药喷雾漂移对栖息在农田生境的非目标鳞翅目昆虫的生物利用度、吸收和影响。这导致低估了农药对维持重要生态系统的关键野生种群（如鳞翅目）的影响。为了评估农药暴露的影响，我们需要适当测量田间小空间尺度上生物真实暴露水平的方法，特别是允许我们i）测量农药喷雾漂移对非目标生物的影响，以及ii）评估农药影响缓解措施的有效性，如田间边缘，该项目将在实验生态毒理学、基因组学和保护生态学的相互作用下，在这些互补领域的专家的监督下开展工作。该项目将设在英国CEH（英国生态和水文中心）在牛津郡，但将提供机会，花更长的时间在皇家鸟类保护协会和卡迪夫大学工作。