The Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to focus on research related to the effects of ambient temperature on koala feeding behaviour and nutrition, and energy and water balance, and incorporate findings into a mechanistic species distribution model. The overall project seeks to identify how heat can constrain koalas’ diet selection by modifying the demand for macronutrients and water, and reducing their capacity to tolerate plant toxins. Along with improved estimates of spatial and temporal variation in leaf moisture content, the observed parameters will inform the development of an improved bioenergetic model of koala distributions throughout NSW. The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will undertake research wit

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