I am an ecologist trying to understand (1) which properties of species communities ensure services such as biological control of pests, pollination of crops, persistence of species of conservation interest and adequate food production are delivered to humans, and (2) how changes to the way we use the land affect these communities and the services they provide to us.
At the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC) Lund, Sweden, I attempt to synthesize current knowledge to model and predict the delivery of multiple ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes.
I use different approaches (phytometers, community manipulations, isotopic analyses, process-based, spatially explicit models) to understand the impact of local and landscape-scale management on communities and ecosystem functions, both in temperate and tropical regions. I have together with several PhD students at the Agroecology group in Göttingen quantified the ecosystem services and disservices delivered by ants and birds in tropical agro-ecosystems using surveys and exclusion experiments of replicated across landscapes to help us understand why terrestrial trophic cascades trickle faster in some places than in others, and the role of indirect and non-trophic interactions on the final outcomes (agricultural yield, forest regeneration…). I take an active interest in multi-level hierarchical modelling (R and BUGS/jags) as well as process-based, spatially explicit modelling for biodiversity and ecosystem services. I have been teaching both ecological subjects and statistics, and have worked as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Ecology.
Contact: [email protected]
News
2016-10-11 New paper on economic and ecological effects of smallholder land-use in Indonesia published in Nature Communications. Check out publications for more of the latest work including first results of experimental biodiversity enrichment in oil-palm, economic impact of birds, bats and ants on cacao, and more.
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Ongoing projects - EU-funded Biodiversa-FACCE project ECODEAL (main applicant and coordinator), FP7 Liberation and ERA-Net Multagri
Past projects - CRC 990 EFForTs, Biodiversa Farmland, SAPES,
At the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC) Lund, Sweden, I attempt to synthesize current knowledge to model and predict the delivery of multiple ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes.
I use different approaches (phytometers, community manipulations, isotopic analyses, process-based, spatially explicit models) to understand the impact of local and landscape-scale management on communities and ecosystem functions, both in temperate and tropical regions. I have together with several PhD students at the Agroecology group in Göttingen quantified the ecosystem services and disservices delivered by ants and birds in tropical agro-ecosystems using surveys and exclusion experiments of replicated across landscapes to help us understand why terrestrial trophic cascades trickle faster in some places than in others, and the role of indirect and non-trophic interactions on the final outcomes (agricultural yield, forest regeneration…). I take an active interest in multi-level hierarchical modelling (R and BUGS/jags) as well as process-based, spatially explicit modelling for biodiversity and ecosystem services. I have been teaching both ecological subjects and statistics, and have worked as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Ecology.
Contact: [email protected]
News
2016-10-11 New paper on economic and ecological effects of smallholder land-use in Indonesia published in Nature Communications. Check out publications for more of the latest work including first results of experimental biodiversity enrichment in oil-palm, economic impact of birds, bats and ants on cacao, and more.
Visit the following links
Ongoing projects - EU-funded Biodiversa-FACCE project ECODEAL (main applicant and coordinator), FP7 Liberation and ERA-Net Multagri
Past projects - CRC 990 EFForTs, Biodiversa Farmland, SAPES,
