interest in developing these
skills. This position comes with a $20,000 (CAD) per year stipend, for 4 years.
# Environment
Research activities will be conducted in the Biology Department at
Université de Sherbrooke (http://www.usherbrooke.ca/biologie/) under the
supervision of Prof. Dominique Gravel
a training program in forest
complexity modeling (http://www.fcm.uqam.ca/).
Dominique Gravel
Canada Research Chair
Continental ecosystem ecology
Université du Québec à Rimouski
300 Allée des Ursulines
Rimouski, Québec, G5L 3A1
(418) 723-1986 #1752
dominique_gra...@uqar.ca
We are seeking a PhD candidate to study the contribution of forest diversity
to the achievement of sustainable forest management objectives. The
candidate will be directed by Profs. Dominique Gravel and Robert Schneider
from the Université du Québec à Rimouski, in collaboration with Christian
coniferous boreal forests in three regions of Québec (Abitibi, Bas
St-Laurent and Estrie). The successful candidate will be under the
supervision of Dominique Gravel (University of Québec at Rimouski), and
co-supervision of Christian Messier (UQAM) and Yves Bergeron (UQAT).
Project description. We are
Two M.Sc. projects and one Ph.D. project on the growth, physiology and
carbon dynamics of short intensive cultures of willow grown for bioenergy
For more than 15 years, Sweden has been succesfully using short rotation
intentive cultures (SRIC) of willow for energy production purposes. Willows
(Sa
June or September 2011.
The project will be conducted under the co-supervision of Dominique Gravel
(UQAR: Université du Québec à Rimouski), Christian Messier (UQAM: Université
du Québec à Montréal) and Timothy Work (UQAM). Dominique Gravel is a
theoretical ecologist working on spatial ecology and
references, or any questions about the project
should be directed to dominique_gra...@uqar.qc.ca. The starting date is
January 2011.
The project will be conducted under the co-supervision of Pedro Peres-Neto
(UQAM: Université du Québec à Montréal) and Dominique Gravel (UQAR:
Université du Québec
Research
(www.cef-cfr.ca).
Dominique Gravel
Chaire de recherche du Canada
en écologie des écosystèmes continentaux
Université du Québec à Rimouski
300 Allée des Ursulines
Rimouski, Québec, G5L 3A1
(418) 723-1986 #1752
dominique_gra...@uqar.qc.ca