We are recruiting a graduate student (M.S. or Ph.D.) to start in January or August 2017. The position is in partly funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation and partly through teaching assistantships in the Biology Department at Texas State University, San Marcos. The research is located in the pinyon-juniper woodlands of New Mexico and will focus on the consequences of the widespread pinyon mortality that has occurred in these ecosystems for over a decade. Part of the student's responsibility will be to map and follow the fate of tree seedlings recruiting in areas affected by pinyon die-off and intact reference sites. The student will also assist in a stable-isotope labelling experiment to examine the effects of experimentally imposed juniper and pinyon mortality on h