Caroline Greiser Forskare
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Namn och titel: Caroline GreiserForskare
Arbetsplats: Institutionen för naturgeografi Länk till annan webbplats.
Besöksadress Rum T302Svante Arrhenius väg 8
Postadress Inst för naturgeografi 106 91 Stockholm
Forskargrupp
Om mig
phone: +46 764152485
I am a landscape ecologist with a PhD in Plant Ecology (2020, Stockholm Uni). My research circles around climate at organism-relevant scales, or so-called microclimate. I measure, model and map temperatures near the ground and investigate how this small-scale variation affects ground-dwelling plants and animals. I have worked with mosses, lichens, vascular plants and insects – mainly in the Swedish forest or agricultural landscape.
Keywords: microclimate, microrefugia, stepping stones, boreal forests, insects, bryophytes, understory biodiversity, climate change
Currently, I am funded by a FORMAS mobility grant for early career researchers (2022-2025) to look at forest microclimate buffering – the air conditioning effect of the forest – and how it is driven and limited by soil water. Within this project, I work with colleagues from SLU in Umeå and Uppsala, as well as researchers from Czech Republic, Finland, Norway, Belgium and France. The goal is to pool our datasets and find generalities and differences in European forests when it comes to forest microclimate buffering.
In the context of this research, I also collaborate with Rob Lewis from Norway in the project "Understanding the role and interplay of forest microclimates for successfully balancing productivity and biodiversity among Nordic forest landscapes (ForestMicroClim)" - funded by SNS.
Additionally, I collaborate with Philipp Lehmann from Greifswald University (Germany), modelling microclimate on very fine scales in order to feed ecophysiological models of the green-veined white butterfly (Pieris napi). In this exciting project, we integrate the non-linear thermal responses of developmental rate over temperature data on very high spatial and temporal resolution (meters and hours) and explore the effects of a natural microclimate landscape on summer phenology, emergence synchrony and voltinism (nr. of generations) of a butterfly population.
Together we also explore the role of spruce bark beetles (Ips typographus) as a microclimate engineer. This project is funded by the Lamm foundation.
I am a steering committee member of SoilTemp, a global network and database for near-ground microclimate and biodiversity data.
Here you find a PDF of my PhD thesis.