CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quantitative Vegetation Ecology

• Do you have a PhD in quantitative vegetation ecology or similar?
• Want to be a part of the Valuing Sustainability Future Science Platform?
• Join CSIRO – Australia’s leading scientific research organisation!

The Valuing Sustainability Future Science Platform (VS FSP) is a substantial new 5-year investment in cutting edge research by CSIRO that will recruit several post-docs who will be embedded in diverse inter-disciplinary research teams. The VS FSP aims to co-produce future pathways, measures and indicators to underpin sustainable innovation and prosperity for current and future industries and communities.

This role sits within the ‘Functional Ecosystems for Nature-positive Prosperity’ project. It offers an exciting opportunity to join an interdisciplinary team aiming to develop new leading indicators of ecosystem health and integrity and embed these indicators into decision processes to accelerate practice change for nature-positive outcomes across agri-food and nature-based ecosystems.

The successful candidate will drive the quantitative plant-soil vegetation ecology component of the project to develop novel, informative, and trusted tools that act as early indicators of change to ecosystem processes that are central to natural systems recovery. These tools will integrate knowledge of inter-dependent above- and below-ground ecosystem processes and predict whether nature-based management interventions are having the intended beneficial outcomes, such as restoring habitat for biodiversity.