INRAE (French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment) seeks a postdoctoral researcher to join the EcoFlowS team of the RiverLy research unit. The position is part of the RhônEco programme, a long-term interdisciplinary research program designed to monitor, assess and anticipate the effects of the ecological restoration of the Rhône. It constitutes an ecological observatory for the river, which adapts to the changing socio-environmental context, in order to take better account of new types of ecological restoration (e.g. sediment recharge of the main channel) and the effects of global change to help manage the river and its floodplains.
This Franco-Swiss program involves around thirty collaborators from a variety of scientific backgrounds and institutions: INRAE (RiverLy research unit, LESSEM and MRU Recover), CNRS (MRUs LEHNA and EVS), the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (MRU LEHNA), the University of Geneva, and HEPIA Geneva.
In this context, we are opening a two-year postdoctoral research position (renewable for one year) focusing on community ecology, hydrobiology and modelling the responses of benthic macroinvertebrates to restoration actions and changes in environmental pressures, combined with extensive fieldwork. One of the major objectives of this postdoctoral position will be to continue the analyses of historical monitoring (more than 20 years of data) of benthic macroinvertebrate communities undertaken on the numerous floodplain channels and on the main channel within the 6 sectors (zone between two dams) distributed from the upper reaches of the French Rhône (Chautagne) to Provence (Donzère Mondragon). These analyses, focusing mainly on communities, will complement existing knowledge (e.g. Castella et al. 2015, Mérigoux et al. 2015; Paillex et al. 2013, 2015; Marle et al. 2021, 2022). A wide range of questions and approaches can be developed, depending on the candidate's preferences and the direction taken by the RhônEco consortium. The work could be open to inter-group studies (fish, others, etc.) or international comparisons.
More details and appplying at: https://jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-19510