I combine plant community ecology and landscape history to explore effects of fragmentation and land use change on plant dispersal, community composition and diversity. How people, livestock and physical constraints have shaped plant communities over time is particularly fascinating. New research challenges are to investigate how changing climate and extreme weather events will affect biodiversity in fragmented habitats.
I am a professor in Physical Geography and associate professor (Docent) in Plant Ecology. I am research area leader for the Biogeography and Geomatics unit and co-leader of the Bolin Climate Centre's research area Biodiversity and Climate.
My research revolves around how species, communities and biodiversity respond with time to changing landscape patterns, habitat loss, fragmentation and global change which is one of the most important theoretical and conservation challenges in ecology today. Connectivity and dispersal in past, present and future landscapes are key points of my research. To link processes occurring in different ecosystems to landscape patterns and global change are central research activities within the group of postdocs and PhD-students.
I am project leader for several international and national research collaborations. Presently the FUNgreen project - Functional connectivity and green infrastructure (funded by Biodiversa/EU 2017) and the LIM project Landscape indicators for biodiversity (funded by SNV 2019).
