Marianne Stoessel Doktorand
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Namn och titel: Marianne StoesselDoktorand
Arbetsplats: Institutionen för naturgeografi Länk till annan webbplats.
Besöksadress Rum V412Svante Arrhenius väg 8
Postadress Inst för naturgeografi 106 91 Stockholm
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Om mig
Member of the Bolin centre, in the research areas 7 (landscape processes and climate) and 8 (biodiversity and climate).
I am PhD student in the Landscape, Environment and Geomatics research unit, and I am studying the interacting effects of land-use and global warming on northern grasslands, under the supervision of Regina Lindborg.
My profile:
I am a passionate ecologist and I like to study nature through different perspectives, if possible different disciplines. Originally, I studied behavioural ecology and ecophysiology. I have been introduced to the world of bio-logging in Strasbourg (2012, with Yan Ropert-Coudert).
I also developed other skills in animal monitoring such as camera trapping surveys, bird ringing and animal tracking through different projects, jobs and traineeships.
Then I did the Master programme in landscape ecology at Stockholm University (2016). There I have been studying community ecology in winter (with Bodil Elmhagen and the Arctic fox research project).
I also worked with Helle Skånes as a research assistant, working on mapping processes and biotope classification in urban land (2017).
Since 2016, I have been an assistant teacher in several courses (in English) mainly for Master students, mostly focused on landscape mapping and analysis. I hold labs about connectivity analysis, coloured infrared orthophoto interpretation for vegetation mapping, landscape interpretation in the field and initiate the students to the use of R for spatial analysis and geo-computation.
I also assist the students for their individual projects at the end of the course and I am starting to give some lectures mainly in the field of Landscape Ecology.
I have also held literature seminars (on topics such as landscape mapping & semantics, extinction debt, diversity measures).
My PhD project:
Grasslands in northern Fennoscandia are under increasing pressure because of climate change. Grazing has an extensive effect on vegetation and can help to keep the landscape open. Yet, grazing activities are also getting increasingly disturbed by concurrent human activities at northern latitudes. For my PhD project, I aim at highlighting hotspots under multiple stressors and studying how much grazing activities are affected by other human activities. In fine, my objective is to study how these stressors affect the quality and the extent of the grazing land.