The Department of Biology, Aarhus University invites applications for a 2-year postdoc position in large-herbivore ecology, trophic rewilding and novel ecosystems, with a specific focus on alien and feral ungulates.

The position is part of the Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), a Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence. ECONOVO studies how global change is reshaping biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and how emerging novel ecosystems can be steered towards better outcomes for biodiversity and people.

Novel ecosystems arise when species composition, ecological dynamics or abiotic conditions differ from recent historical baselines, for example due to climate change, biological invasions, land-use change and trophic downgrading. Alien and feral ungulates are important components of many such systems. They may act as ecosystem engineers through grazing, browsing, trampling, dispersal and nutrient redistributi...