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Post-doctorat sur les dynamiques de la limite supérieure de la forêt dans les Alpes et les Pyrénées CNRS in France
Degree Level
Postdoc
Field of study
Computer Science
Funding
Postdoctoral position funded by PC MONITOR, part of the PEPR FORESTT programme.
Deadline
Nov 27, 2026
Country
France
University
CNRS
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This postdoctoral project studies the recent upward shift of the upper forest limit in the Alps and the Pyrenees. The work examines how long-term vegetation history, past land-use change, and the ecological characteristics of colonised sites shape current forest-edge dynamics.
The research is organised around two linked scientific goals. First, the project will connect forest-limit trajectories since 1850 with more recent changes detected by remote sensing, with particular attention to the legacy of ancient forests and land-use shifts associated with the Industrial Revolution. Second, it will assess how the vegetation cover already present at the forest ecotone influences forest colonisation, especially whether shrub formations behave differently from grasslands or bare-soil sectors.
The postdoctoral researcher will work with vegetation indices, fine-scale mapping of cover types, and geostatistical modelling. The study uses Sentinel-2 data and AI-based classification approaches such as AlphaEarth to produce high-resolution maps of the main vegetation covers at the forest edge and to quantify spatial and kinetic differences in forest encroachment across the two mountain ranges.
The position is based at the Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine in Grenoble, within the PC MONITOR project and the broader PEPR FORESTT programme. The researcher will contribute to project meetings, scientific exchanges, and publication of the results in peer-reviewed journals.
Funding details
Postdoctoral position funded by PC MONITOR, part of the PEPR FORESTT programme.
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