Teaching:

 

Postgraduate research supervision

 

Main PhD. Supervisor

1.      Sharon Cowling 1997- PhD 18 May 2000 ‘Vegetation processes and interactions simulated over the geologic and recent past”

2.      Stephen Sitch  1993 – PhD 17 May 2000 (joint main supervisor from 1998) “The role of vegetation dynamics in the control of atmospheric CO2 content”

3.      Jed Kaplan 1996 (formal superv. from 2000) PhD 9 March 2001 “Geophysical applications of vegetation modelling”

4.      Anna Maria Fosaa 1999- PhD 28 November 2003 ‘ Mountain Vegetation in the Faroe Islands in a climate change perspective’

5.      Thomas Hickler  1999 –PhD 12 March 2004 ‘ Towards an integrated ecology through mechanistic modelling of ecosystem structure and function’ 

6.      Pablo Morales 2001 – PhD 14 February 2006 ‘ Modelling carbon and water fluxes in European terrestrial ecosystems’

7.      Emmanuel Gritti 2001 – PhD 17 February 2006 ’Global Changes and European terrestrial ecosystems’

8.      Deniz Koca  2001  - PhD 24 February 2006 ‘Impacts of regional climate change on Swedish forests: an evaluation using a process-based regional ecosystem modelling approach’

9.      Lotten Jönsson  2003  PhD 12 November 2008. ‘Semi-Natural Grasslands: Landscape, history and plant species diversity’

10.  Triin Reitalu 2003  PhD 24 October 2008  ‘Plant species diversity in semi-natural grasslands: effects of scale, landscape structure and habitat history’

11.   Marie Vandewalle PhD 2011 ‘Biodiversity, plant traits and ecosystem function in a historical landscape’

12.  Oliver Purschke  PhD 2011  (joint main Supervisor with Honor Prentice)  “ Species diversity in fragmented landscapes –    dispersal

13.  Yang Zhenlin  PhD 2012  “Modelling arctic vegetation and biodiversity under climate change”

14.  Jörgen Olofsoon  PhD 2013  ‘  Modelling landscape change and biodiversity’

 

Co PhD. Supervisor :

Florian Sallaba 2010  ‘Climate Change Integrated Assessment Methodology for cross-sectoral adaptation and vulnerability in Europe’  (main supervisor until 2013) with Jonathan Seaquist

Anna Wramneby   2004 ‘Combining Climate Modelling and dynamic ecosystem modelling’ with Ben Smith

      Carin Nilsson  2002 ‘Impacts of extreme climate conditions in Northern Europe’ with Lars Bärring

     Björn Holmqvist Quaternary Ecology, Lund 1997- ‘ Reconstructing palaeovegetation using fossil pollen data’

Leif Jonsson Plant Ecology, Lund awarded 1995.’ Effects of restoration on wooded meadows in s.e. Sweden’

Sofie Wikberg, Lund and Wien 1993-3rd May 2002 ‘Life history and population biology of Carex humilis’

Lars- Erik Williams Lund 1993-1999 “Nitrogen cycling in agricultural systems”

Yngve Persson (Licentiate) 1997-1999

 

Post-doctoral fellows:

 Ben Smith   1996-2003, Justin Travis  1999-2001; Annett Wolf   2003-2005;  Thomas Hickler  2004-2010 ;  Anja Rammig  2005-2008;   Paul Millar  2005-2010 ; Veiko Lehsten 2009-2012 ; Eva Küster   2009-2012;  Dörte Lehsten            2009-2013; Linda Larsson-Lindgren  2010-2012;  Chaira Molineri 2011-2013; Paula Caplat 2012-2013

 

Visiting Researchers:

       Ni Jian 1997-1998; Chunying Liu 1998-1999;  Kishore Redy 2005-2006;

 

Postgraduate courses

 

q  Lund University

Involved in developing a PhD course on Scientific Writing run by Geobiosphere Science Centre May 2004

 

Organiser PhD course in Geobiosphere Science March 2004

 

Multi-variate methods workshop (1996,1997, 1999) for PhD students from Ecology and other departments.  Design and gave the workshops, lectures, seminars and practicals including projects worth 2 points in research education for 8-15 students.

 

FORTRAN programming course (1997) for PhD students from Plant Ecology, Quaternary Geology and Systematic Botany worth 2 points in research education, lectures, practicals and a project for 6-8 students.

Leader and Organiser of  the joint 3 week field trip to New Zealand for 22 PhD Students from Lund and Uppsala Plant Ecology departments 1993 – worth 3 points in research education.

International  Environmental Change Forum (1 point) 15-19 May 2000 Lund in conjunction with the PhD disputations of 2 of my students. Invited Lecturers from Europe and USA. Idea and Organiser

 

Plant Community Ecology 3 points course – 22 May –2 June 2000 – c. 25 students from Europe, organiser and leader.

q  Uppsala University

a. FORTRAN programming (5 days) Course 1990 – Department of Ecological Botany

b. Lectures in yearly research level multi-variate methods course 1990-1992.

 

 

Undergraduate  project supervision  

Honours/Masters projects (examensarbete) supervision :  

Oliver Bossdorf  1997-8 “ Interspecific competition and its dependence on soil productivity: in search of plant community structure on the Öland dry alvar”  10points

Thomas Hickler 1998-9 “ Classification and distribution of plant functional types on Öland’s Stora Alvaret “ 20points

Annett Wolff     1998-9 “ Testing for guild proportionality using biomass and grouping guilds by clustering of species traits in a grassland community of Öland’s ‘Stora Alvaret’ “ 20points

Ingmar Jürgens 2001 “ Climate Change and the communication between Scientists and Stakeholders” 20 points

Marie Vandewalle 2004 “ Plant species richness in semi-natural grassland fragments in the Jordtorp area central Öland ” 20 points

 

Undergraduate teaching

 

q  LUND UNIVERSITY

NGEN03   (BIO792) Global Ecosystem Dynamics 10 points 2001 - 2012  Developed the idea and course leader of this interdisciplinary advanced  course looking at ecosystems through space and time. Course includes teachers from Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science,  Quaternary Geology,  Plant Ecology & Systematics.

Master’s level  course

 

NGE610  Climate change and Environmental Impacts Advanced level (10 points) 2003-2102    Course leader  2005-2008

Master’s level course

 

GIS Internet course  - section on GIS and biodiversity from 2005 

 

BIO236 Ecology 10 points - Spring & Autumn 1995-2000

 a block (c. 5 days) on  Community Ecology: field work, computer practical, theory lectures, seminars, group discussion

BIO226  Plant Ecology  10p – Spring 1993-2000  

lectures and seminars on community ecology, climate change, modelling, project advisor, examiner. Course design.

BIO071  General Ecology 10p Spring and Autumn 1998-present 

Biodiversity lectures

 

q  Torshavn University Faroe islands  General Ecology Course 2nd year students   Sept. 2002   

q  Trondheim University, Norway Botany Department –  lecture series on multi-variate methods 1992

 

q  OTAGO UNIVERSITY, NEW ZEALAND

1980-1986        Senior Demonstrator – sole charge 3 hours practical laboratories, 2-3 times weekly in plant ecology, botany and taxonomy at 1st and 2nd year level.

1987-1988             Assistant Lecturer part-time – lecturing 4 times (= 4 LH) a week for two terms to first year botany students (c. 40). Lecturing on Plant Biology to General Biology students (c. 200)

 

q  Secondary school relief teacher, Dunedin Otago

1980-1986             I taught Mathematics and Biology as a relief teacher to secondary school pupils (14-18yrs) part-time during my PhD studies. This involved both single days but also continual periods of up to 6 weeks;  at St Hilda’s School for Girls and  King’s School for Boys.