Research
Research Interest 1
Long-term vegetation dynamics and landscape change. Management and conservation of forest systems. Impacts of climatic change. Scandinavian nature. Co-ordinator of the European Pollen Database. Co-ordinator of the European BIODIVERSA project FIREMAN 2009-2013. Institutional leader of DYNAMITE research and teaching cooperation programme with Lund University, Sweden 2009-2013. Visiting Professor at Lund University Centre for Studies of Carbon Cycle and Climate Interactions 2011-2012.
Research grants
Drivers and Feedbacks of Changes in Arctic Terrestrial Biodiversity
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
August 2020 - January 2025
DYNAmic Models in Terrestrial Ecosystems and Landscapes (DYNAMITE)
STINT (SWEDEN)
September 2009 - September 2013
Fire management to maintain biodiversity and mitigate economic loss (FIREMAN)
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2009 - June 2013
Evolution of trees as drivers of terrestrial biodiversity (EVOLTREE).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
April 2008 - September 2010
Dynamics of community composition
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
July 2013 - June 2017
Research collaborations
Heikki Seppa
University of Helsinki
Forest dynamics
Ronald Bialyzot
University of Marburg
Data-model comparison of the Holocene spread of beech and Spruce in Scandinavia
Matts Lindbladh
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Joint research project
Kendrick Brown
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Dr. Kendrick Brown is a Marie Curie International post-doctoral fellow under my supervision. We are studying the Holocene history of biomass burning in Europe.
Mikael Ohlson
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Land use and ecosystem function in boreal forests. Research project funded by Norwegian Science Research Council.