I recently post this announcement but realized that I had forgotten to change the deadline for application. We will accept application until 20 July.
The NSERC-Produits forestiers Anticosti industrial research chair in integrated management of biological resources of Anticosti forests is looking for two postdoctoral candidates in the area of plant-large herbivore relationships and modelling. The Anticosti Chair is conducting a research program aiming at the development of wildlife and forest management practices adapted to high densities of cervids ( http://www.cen.ulaval.ca/anticosti/). The Chair is based in the Department of biology of Laval University and is part of the Centre détudes nordiques. On Anticosti Island, the Chair has research infrastructures, and research offices and laboratories. The team of researchers is multidisciplinary and studies questions in animal and behavioural ecology, forest biology, and silviculture. Research staff includes two research professionals, ten graduate students and 7-8 summer students. We are looking for two postdoctoral candidates interested in the demographic and quantitative aspects of plant-herbivore relationships. The first project will use the results on the demography and growth of more than 4000 seedlings from a controlled browsing experiment in place for nearly 10 years, and model the population dynamics of seedlings in relation to the density of white-tailed deer. This project aims also at the analysis of data from several exclosures put in place 15 years ago to test the theory of multiple equilibrium and alternative patterns of succession in the boreal forest. The second project will integrate the knowledge developed on Anticosti over the last 10 years as well as the scientific literature and expert knowledge in a series of probabilistic models (e.g. bayesian networks) of deer-forest-silviculture management relationships. These models will be used as alternative hypotheses to determine how the ecosystem function and will represent the base of a strategy of adaptive management for the forest resources of Anticosti Island. The candidates should have completed a Ph.D. within the last 5 years in an area of expertise related to the above descriptions. An annual 35 000CAD$ fellowship is available for both positions effective in Autumn 2009 or Winter 2010. One fellowship is available for 2 years and the other for 1.5 year, with a possibility of extension. Applications should include a letter of intent, a C.V. and the name of three contacts for references. Applications will be closing on 20 July 2009. ___________________ For more information : Steeve Côté, Chair holder NSERC-Produits forestiers Anticosti Industrial Research Chair Département de biologie Université Laval Québec (Québec), Canada, G1V 0A6 [email protected] Phone : 418-656-2131 #3490 Fax: 418-656-2043 Jean-Pierre Tremblay, assistant professor NSERC-Produits forestiers Anticosti Industrial Research Chair Département de biologie Université Laval Québec (Québec), Canada, G1V 0A6 [email protected] Phone : 418-656-2131 #3629 Fax: 418-656-2043
