[What the role is]
The Singapore Botanic Gardens (SBG) is one of the oldest tropical botanical gardens and one of only three botanic gardens in the world inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The SBG is a Division of the National Parks Board, the statutory agency responsible for managing greenery and biodiversity in Singapore.

SBG now also hosts a Tropical Forest Ecology Research (TFER) programme to coordinate research to inform forest management strategies and policy in Singapore and the region. Singapore’s geographic position at the heart of Southeast Asia and places SBG in an advantageous position to address challenges facing forest conservation and restoration in the region. The programme maintains long-term forest research sites such as a network of permanent forest plots throughout Singapore’s nature reserves and parks where other research projects on wildlife, nutrient cycling, etc., are co-located to maximise potential synergies.
[What you will be working on]
You will be a member of the team that coordinates the TFER programme. You will be the point of contact for research on plant-animal interactions in Singapore’s forests. We are particularly seeking researchers with expertise or interests in investigating the role that invertebrates (e.g., insects) play in forest ecosystem processes (e.g., pollination, herbivory, decomposition, succession) and resilience against short-term disturbances and long-term pressures (e.g., climate change, urbanisation, etc.).



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