Professor from the Faculty of Life Sciences who is a terrestrial ecologist is looking to join a PRIMA proposal. The research emphasis in his lab is on terrestrial ecosystems, dynamics and diversity of soil biota of arid, semiarid and agroecosystems. Were the primary focus is on belowground processes in with emphasis on relationship of soil invertebrates and detrital food web structure to primary production monitoring rangeland conditions (health); assessing success of rehabilitation efforts on disturbed rangelands, such as improvement of primary production, reverse desertification processes and rehabilitation of coal strip mines; biological management of soil ecosystems for sustainable agriculture, decomposition processes, climate change effect on biotic component of soil biota. In the belowground processes the emphasis is on soil microbial community (bacteria, fungi), free-living soil nematodes, protozoa, microarthropods and plant organism relationships.
