In my PhD project, I am studying how southern and northern forest understory species are affected simultaneously by climate and land use (forestry) changes, and how forest microclimate influences these dynamics.

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I do this by:

1) Analysing changes in community climate means of the forest understory in relation to forestry and climate changes using the data from the Swedish NFI.

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2) Analysing species compositional differences in forest sites that have been thinned 15 years ago vs sites with no management.

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3) Transplanting two moss species with diverging regional abundances together and separately across a macro- and microclimate gradient to see how these two different climate scales respectively impact the moss species’ performances and which role their biotic interactions play.

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4) Analysing the population growth dynamics of a southern forest herb across its distribution in Sweden; if and how microclimate impacts its different vital rates and thus population growth rate.