CAnMove

Research Interests

In my PhD-project I focused on how pollinating insects, mainly solitary bees and bumble bees, are affected by the surrounding landscape. Steep declines in pollinator abundances have been recognised in Western Europe, as well as in other parts of the world. Among other things I use studies of bee foraging behaviour in combination with population monitoring on a landscape scale, as tools to try to explain this decline.
I am also interested in more general conservation biology, landscape and spatial ecological questions and landscape planning problems.
My undergraduate studies in biology and ecology were carried out at Lund University between 1997 and 2002. I have also studied landscape planning at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU, Alnarp).
 The title of my PhD-project is "Consequences of organic farming and farmland heterogeneity on foraging, fitness and species richness of bumblebees and solitary bees". It is financed by FORMAS and supervised by Prof. Henrik Smith, Animal Ecology, Lund University and assistant supervisor Ola Olsson, Animal Ecology, Lund University