I have two main research directions. The first is to identify pathways into the future that allow achieving different objectives for what forest owners and society aim to obtain from forests. To reliably conduct this work, we need to understand how the distribution and dynamics of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services are influenced by forest management and environmental conditions. 

Scenarios of future forestry, conservation, climate

We study how biodiversity and ecosystem services may develop depending on how the forests are managed and how the climate develops. In addition, we examine how the climate is affected by different forest uses based on LCA. This work includes simulating and optimizing scenarios. We mainly study landscape scales or all of Sweden, but we sometimes also include EU and global scales. The scenarios are often developed with stakeholders, such as forest owners, conservationists, and public authorities. The questions are addressed using models we develop or other available models and tools, such as Heureka for forest management planning.

Distribution and dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystem services

We investigate the of environmental conditions, management, and ecological processes (e.g. species dispersal) in explaining the distribution and dynamics of biodiversity. This biodiversity forms the foundation for forest ecosystem services. Our main approach is statistical modelling of field data on species distributions or dynamics, but we also conduct field experiments. We collect field data ourselves or use large, freely available datasets, such as those from the Swedish NFI, GBIF. We also investigate what types of research questions can be answered using data from GBIF. We study both common and red-listed species, as well as entire species communities.

Ongoing projects

Projects: MultilevelPaths, ForBioClim
We are Partner: ForestNavigator, ForBioMon

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