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Laboratoire/Entreprise : Biostatistics and Spatial Processes, INRAE
Durée : 18 months
Contact : samuel.soubeyrand@inrae.fr
Date limite de publication : 2024-12-01
Contexte :
You will be based at the BioSP research unit (Biostatistics and Spatial Processes) in Avignon, and collaborate with researchers from INRAE and Cirad at Avignon, Montpellier and Rennes. You will specifically work with Samuel Soubeyrand (INRAE, Avignon) and Virginie Ravigné (Cirad, Montpellier), and be involved in the IRIS project dedicated to better understanding and monitoring biological regulation services. This topic is approached in the IRIS project both from a general and methodological perspective, and throughout the study of a specific context, namely the citrus production in Corsica.
The rational underlying the project is to envision and implement a proof of concept of a multidimensional, integrative surveillance of the biological diversity (instead of the traditional surveillance in silo of specific pests) contributing both to the sanitary risk and to their mitigation.
Sujet :
Your work in this project will consist in carrying out original research aiming at modeling and inferring the links between the characteristics of the landscapes and the local capacities of pest regulation. You will characterize landscapes with classical indicators related to land use, climate, geology, anthropization, etc., and more original indicators reflecting connectivity between the diverse landscape components. Then, you will infer landscape-regulation links with multidimensional models allowing you to take into account the interaction within the community (for instance, models considered in statistics, machine learning, species distribution modeling, or even hybrid models encompassing mechanistic components), with the additional challenge of incorporating in these analyzes connectivity data. This part of the research will be based on accurate spatial diversity data collected during the project in the citrus production areas in Corsica and processed with metabarcoding and high throughput sequencing techniques. The deliverables of your work will be high level scientific publications, a computer code for producing landscape characteristics and inferring landscape-regulation links, and a dynamic map of potential natural regulation (and its counterpart, namely pest risk).
Profil du candidat :
Formation et compétences requises :
Background in quantitative ecology, community ecology, statistics or other related domains that led you to work on interacting processes and to analyze complex data.
Adresse d’emploi :
https://jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-22941