Job vacancy - Senior Lecturer in forest management

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) is searching for an Associate Senior Lecturer in forest management with a focus on adaptation of forestry to climate change

Climate change poses serious challenges for forests and forestry in the foreseeable future and threatens many of the ecosystem services that forests provide. Those who manage boreal and northern temperate forests are under increasing pressure to adapt management regimes to the associated uncertainties and risks. Production forests also play a vital role in the global carbon cycle, which emphasizes the need to further exploit their capacity to sequester and store carbon and thereby contribute to global mitigation efforts. Climate change will probably mean that management of forests in southern Sweden will change over the course of this century. Important areas for research and teaching for the applicant research questions for the applicant will be forest management alternatives which are better adapted to a changed climate in southern Sweden. The candidate will also need to consider forest adaptation to altered growth rates, and increased abiotic or biotic risks. Yet another important consideration is how to manage the forest, at stand and landscape level, to find a good balance between carbon storage in relation to the other ecosystem services forests must deliver.

Important areas for research and teaching for the applicant will be forest management alternatives which are better adapted to a changed climate in southern Sweden. The candidate will also need to consider forest adaptation to altered growth rates, and increased abiotic or biotic risks. Yet another important consideration is how to manage the forest, at stand and landscape level, to find a good balance between carbon storage in relation to the other ecosystem services forests must deliver.

More information can be found here:

http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/jobDetails/34075375