The Desert Laboratory at Tucson, Arizona has postdoc funding for an
individual interested in working with us on the landmark Tumamoc
long-term data sets on desert plants. These studies were begun in
the first decade of the 20th century, mapping saguaros and other
desert perennial plants. The person hired will have principle
responsibility for archiving these unique 100+ year demographic data
sequences and publishing them in Ecological Archives. The person
will also be encouraged to take advantage of these data sets for
other publications on how plant communities respond to multidecadal
fluctuations in weather. We also anticipate fieldwork to extend the
sequence. The people who collected the early data played a
fundamental role in the early development of plant ecology in the US
and, among other things, were heavily involved in founding the
Ecological Society of America in 1915. This position provides an
opportunity to continue participate in this heritage.
Are looking for someone with a PhD in population or community
ecology, familiar with database management, ACCESS, Arcview,
population dynamics and the analysis of long-term vegetation change.
This is a nice opportunity for someone who may be interested in
integrating long-term population and community dynamics with climate dynamics.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of
Arizona is a strong department of 25 professors with a very active
program of Ph.D. students, postdocs, seminars and many other ecology
related units and facilities to interact with on campus.
Please contact us at Larry Venable ([email protected] (520)
621-5956) for further details.
