Education:
Graduation from a recognized university with a PhD in plant ecology.

Experience:
Experience in designing, conducting and statistically analyzing experiments to investigate stand dynamics, succession or regeneration in forest ecosystems.
Experience performing analyses to understand relationships of biological processes with environmental variables.

Recognition:
Recognized achievement in the form of authorship in peer-reviewed journals resulting from research related to regeneration strategies, stand dynamics and /or forest succession.

Challenge:
You will be asked to enhance knowledge of environmental drivers of successional pathways and stand dynamics in forests to improve the basis for sustainable forest management in the Acadian Forest in the face of a changing climate. You will focus your work on changes in recovery of forest ecosystems after disturbance as climate change progresses, particularly at the regeneration phase and by focussing on key ecological (silvical) responses of relevant species. You will also investigate the role of environmental drivers of relationships among tree species (competition, mutualism, etc.) that determine stand dynamics post-regeneration and therefore the future seed sources that will exist at the time of the next disturbance. You will use increased understanding of the impacts of climate change on forests to develop adaptive forestry practices that ameliorate impacts for adversely affected species and, encourage establishment of species that are better adapted to the changing environment.

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