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.

来自加的夫大学项目的英国生态学兰开斯特中心的博士机会将解决现实世界中的挑战，即优化该领域的农药影响缓解策略的有效性。它将将尖端的跨学科污染科学纳入地面保护行动中，开发一种方法学工具包，以测量农药喷雾漂移对非目标鳞翅目居住在农田中的非目标的生物利用度，摄取和影响的影响，因为这项工作至关重要，因为目前的农药许可程序没有测试非targe剂量的数量。这导致估计农药对维持重要生态系统至关重要的野生种群的影响（例如鳞翅目）。为了评估农药暴露的影响，我们需要在现场的小空间尺度上充分测量有机体的真实暴露水平在这些互补领域的专家监督下，实验生态毒理学，基因组学和保护生态学的界面。该项目将位于牛津郡的英国CEH（英国生态与水文学中心），但将提供在RSPB和Cardiff University花费大量时间工作的机会。