[Taxacom] Post-doctoral vacancy at RBGE: Conserving the Flora of Socotra

[John Grehan]

You are very welcome. Plants are great for biogeography as there many cases
where distribution details are known in some detail. But there can be very
good data for many animals so it is great that you are going to integrate
information across all groups. But the example also illustrates that the
biogeography of Socotra is not in isolation and that to explain effectively
the biogeography of Socotra one has to explain differentiation in many
other parts of the world, including Australia, Africa, Europe, and Asia in
the crab example. Hope that will also be kept in mind.

John Grehan


On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Alan Forrest <ad_forrest at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> John,
>
> Thanks for that - although this is a plant project, we are trying to
> integrate across all groups as data starts coming in, and as wider Socotra
> projects start to come online. The Socotra crabs are a bit special!
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
>   On Friday, 28 March 2014, 16:06, John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>  A nice example of potential integration of evolution into conservation
> for Socotra may be provided in the biogeography of a clade of freshwater
> crabs where a gondwanan clade (Poamonautidae - Africa, Madagascar and
> Seychelles + Gecarinucidae - India to McPherson-Macleay Overlap) and a
> Tethyan clade (Poamidae - Borneo to Gibraltar,  including Socotra where the
> gondwanic clade is absent. See Heads "Biogeography of Australasia."
>
> John Grehan
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Alan Forrest <ad_forrest at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The Centre for Middle Eastern Plants at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
> has a vacancy for a post-doctoral research assistant for 18 months starting
> October 2014. The position forms part of the project 'Conserving the Flora
> of Socotra: integrating evolution into conservation'.
>
> The link for the vacancy can be found here:
> http://www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/vacancies#vacancy7
>
> Please pass this on to anyone who may be interested.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Alan
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