Hi all,
We are recruiting for a new PhD position measuring the recovery of ecosystem services after boreal forest fire.
Position details & application) https://lu.mynetworkglobal.
Project summary) The forest fires which raged across Sweden in the summer of 2018 caused tremendous damage and were distributed across nearly the entire country, spanning a climate gradient of ~0 – 9 °C mean annual temperature. These characteristics make the 2018 Swedish boreal forest fires the ideal natural experiment for examining the effects of between natural temperature regime and wildfires and their impacts on ecosystem processes. So, for the PhD project we propose to set up measurements along a network of forest sites spanning southern to northern Sweden which burnt in 2018 to quantify the impact, and potential for recovery, of core ecosystem properties and services after fire in Swedish boreal forest. Our approach will pair extensive field measurements across Sweden with intensive laboratory measurements and an integrative modeling analysis.
