This PhD project is attached to the ERC Synergy Project “MEMELAND” (Molecular Ecology of European Medieval Landscape) at the University Museum of the Arctic University of Norway (PI Tony Brown). The successful candidate will join a multi-university team who are coring over 100 lakes in NW Europe to reveal ecosystem changes related to agricultural intensification over the last 2000 years. Whilst the main focus is terrestrial agriculture and its effects on biodiversity an additional theme is effects on freshwater systems including lakes and rivers. We are also interested in aquaculture both in purpose created environments (e.g. fishponds) and through river and lake stocking. Specific areas of investigation will include a) changes in fish faunas for selected sites, b) examine the causes of these changes and relate to vegetation, climate and archaeological data, c) investigate the use of fish parasite sedaDNA as an additional methodology, d) trial other primers for fish and e) use non-amplicon sequencing on selected sites and samples.
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