Post-doc on ecosystem services and biofuels/New Zealand
This work will evaluate and enhance ecosystem services (ES) and
dis-services associated with candidate and market-leading biodiesel
feedstock species. Commercial crops, plot and lab work are involved.
Skills to be learned/developed include at least some of: assessing
pollination 'spillover', biological control, ecological engineering,
habitat manipulation, diversity assessments of soil microbes etc and
natural resource economics.
Two-three years
Start any time
Funded by NZ government and Chevron
Based at Lincoln University, NZ
Informal enquiries to below please-apologies but no replies until
April 1 because of travel commitments
Steve Wratten
Professor of Ecology
Bio-Protection Research Centre
Burns, 514
P O Box 84
Lincoln University
Lincoln 7647
New Zealand
ddi +64 3 321 8221| p +64 3 325 3696 extn: 8221 | f +64 3 325 3864
e [email protected] | w www.lincoln.ac.nz
My web page: http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/story9451.html?
Web sites covering the "Greening Waipara" programme, which is
using native vegetation in vineyards to enhance ecosystem services are:
http://bioprotection.org.nz/greening-waipara
A broader outline of work in the Bio-Protection Research Centre on
ecosystem services is given in the website below:
Accounting for Ecosystem Services Associated with Agricultural
Production in New Zealand
Bio-Protection is a national centre incorporating staff from Lincoln
University, Massey University, Plant & Food Research, AgResearch and
eight other collaborator institutes that conducts world class research and
development to meet the biosecurity and pest management needs of New
Zealand's plant based primary industries and natural ecosystems.
Lincoln University, Te Whare Wanaka o Aoraki
New Zealand's Specialist Land-Based University
