The successful applicant will play a central role as a forest ecologist in a new two-year CFP project entitled SUPPoRT: SUstainable Plant Provenancing for Resilient Trees. This project aims to improve tree seed collection choices and planting decisions guided by an adaptive genetic diversity landscape map of the UK. The job holders role will be to:
(i)    assess tree species-specific recruitment success at the national scale using National Forest Inventory (NFI) datasets from 10,000+ one hectare sample plots, identifying with researchers at RBG Kew, regions of high recruitment success with self-sustaining populations and regions of poor regeneration, including possible causes (e.g. browsing pressure) and
(ii)    work with the Future Trees Trust, undertaking explanatory data analysis using  FTT field experimental trial datasets, to provide evidence for stakeholders on the effect of different nursery protocols (bare-root vs container-grown material), silvicultural interventions (application of fertilizer, weed control) and the value of using qualified/selected seed over source-identified seed.

See the Civil Service Jobs website to apply.