POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS – ECOLOGICAL MODELLING OF EUCALYPT WOODLAND DECLINE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA A 3-year Postdoctoral position (minimum starting salary Aus$70,058 p.a.) is offered at the University of Western Australia, School of Plant Biology, as part of a state-funded Centre of Excellence for Climate Change and Woodland and Forest Health.
The southwest of Western Australia has experienced a significant decrease in rainfall over the past three decades, a trend that is predicted to continue. At the same time, several eucalypt species of the woodlands and forests in this region have started to show health problems. The Ecological Modelling postdoc will construct models for simulating important ecological and physiological processes affecting trees in woodlands and forests. The models will be based on information provided by ecologists, physiologists, pathologists, climatologists etc, and will be used to understand and predict the effects and interactions of possible causes for declines in tree health, such as changing climate, plant pathogens and insects. Supervision: Asst Prof Michael Renton ([email protected]) and Prof Erik Veneklaas. There will be close collaboration between the ecological modelling postdoc and an ecophysiology postdoc (also currently advertised), as well as with other researchers in the Centre of Excellence, including plant pathologists, ecologists, climatologists and social scientists, at the University of Western Australia, Murdoch University and other associated institutions. For further information and instructions on how to apply, please see http://www.jobs.uwa.edu.au/ . Closing date is 16 April 2010.
