28 Jan 2025
Job Information
- Organisation/Company
French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment (INRAE)- Department
1434 SILVA- Research Field
Environmental science » Ecology- Researcher Profile
Recognised Researcher (R2)- Country
France- Application Deadline
4 Mar 2025 - 23:59 (UTC)- Type of Contract
Permanent- Job Status
Full-time- Hours Per Week
35- Offer Starting Date
1 Sep 2025- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
Not funded by a EU programme- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No
Offer Description
The SILVA Joint Research Unit (University of Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE) is a multidisciplinary unit with around 150 staff. It studies the functioning of forest ecosystems in the context of global change, with a particular focus on the multiple risks associated with combinations of different hazards (wind, drought, flooding) to propose management and adaptation solutions. You will develop a research project aimed at integrating the biomechanical signal received by trees into forest dynamics models. The growth allocation inside the tree is under strong mechanosensitive control with considerable consequences on forest dynamics. The perception of the mechanical signal by living cells is well-known in biology but less in forestry even though it is an essential factor in the environmental control of tree growth and the active response of trees to stress (acclimation). The response to this signal shapes the trees and, consequently, their resource acquisition and resistance or resilience traits to different stresses. It therefore determines the services provided by forest ecosystems, including carbon storage, whether underground or above ground. Integrating the response to the biomechanical signal into forest dynamics models is a major challenge if we are to make realistic predictions for forests subject to multiple hazards and multiple growth regulation factors.
You will develop a conceptual framework emerging in international communities, combining the mechanical approach to wind risk on a tree structure and the mechanobiology of growth. To do this, you will formalize the integration of physiological and ecophysiological mechanisms in the computation of tree performances (wind resistance, righting capacity, self-support) and for predicting the temporal trajectories of the latter on the scale of forest stands in the context of global change. You will draw on knowledge and approaches from material and structural mechanics, as well as from forest biology. You will compare this framework with the problems of assessing the risks to which forest stands are exposed, as addressed by the Silva joint research unit. You will be able to draw on the metrology and growth modelling skills of your colleagues in the unit, and access to the forest stand monitoring systems managed by the UMR Silva, national forest experimentation and observation infrastructures (In Sylva France, AnaEE and ICOS), as well as the Silvatech analytical platform for characterizing the anatomical and mechanical properties of wood and the CAPSIS modelling platform.
Where to apply
- Website
- https://jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-competitions/open-competions-research-scientists-…
Requirements
- Research Field
- Environmental science
- Education Level
- PhD or equivalent
Additional Information
- Website for additional job details
https://jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-competitions/open-competions-research-scientists-…
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment (INRAE)
- Country
- France
- City
- CHAMPENOUX
- Postal Code
- 54280
- Geofield
Contact
- City
CHAMPENOUX- Website
https://jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-competitions/open-competions-research-scientists-crcn- Postal Code
54280
jana.dlouha@inrae.fr
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