In my group, we investigate how species and communities respond to climate and land use change. We are particularly interested in how different biotic and abiotic drivers interactively affect species at the population level. Our taxonomic focus in on terrestrial arthropods, but we also work on plants, birds and mammals. We develop and apply novel image-based tools for ecological monitoring . We use long-term observations, experiments and modelling approaches and do field work in pristine Arctic ecosystems as well as in highly managed regions in temperate Europe.
News
The Global Insect decline special issue has been published in PNAS with two papers (deep learning and Arctic arthropods) I have led (January 2021)
The ASICS PhD position has been advertised. Please share or apply (January 2021)
The RangeX post doc project has been advertised please share or apply (December 2020)
Two papers accepted in upcoming issue of PNAS! (November 2020)
The RangeX project led by Jake Alexander ETH Zurich has been funded by BiodivERsA. (September 2020)
The ASICS project led by David Renault, Univ. Rennes 1 has been funded by BiodivERsA. (September 2020)
The CHARTER EU H2020 project had its kick-off meeting! (October 2020)
The BIODISCOVER paper has been published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution. An important milestone for image recognition of species (July 2020)
My review on Arctic arthropods and climate change has been published in Current Opinion in Insect Science (June 2020)
Our spider clutch size paper is out in Proceedings B, received a lot of press and is in the top 5% of all papers evaluated by Altmetric (June 2020)