Research Interests
My PhD explores the effects of climate and landscape change on bats. Through the use of a combination of historical and current data on climate, landscape composition and bat distributions, I aim to identify the key drivers of bat diversity in Sweden. Ultimately the project aims to model future bat distributions under various climate and landscape change scenarios. I am also interested more generally in the field of Soundscape Ecology and its use in Citizen Science and as a conservation tool.
I also assist on a project called SmåLöv. The project studies the effects of spatio-temporal landscape dynamics on biodiversity in deciduous forest patches in Swedish agricultural landscapes. It assesses relations between landscape history, soil conditions, vascular plant vegetation and Carabid beetle fauna. More specifically, it investigates how i) space (patch size), ii) spatial arrangement (patch isolation), iii) time since forest patch fragmentation or patch emergence (land history), iv) present patch quality (mineral soil and humus quality, canopy conditions) and v) quality of the surrounding land affect species diversity and species sorting of plants and Carabid beetles in the present-day landscape.