News | Hylander Ecology Lab

Aug 3

Irena Koelemeijer defended her thesis

On Friday April 26 Irena successfully defended her thesis entitled "Effects of drought on boreal forest understory species". On the...

Oct 31, 2023

Two large scale climate refugia projects now established in Sweden

This summer, members from our Lab (Jonathon Winnel, Stuart Fell and Sofia Corsetti) undertook a large field campaign across Sweden to...

Dec 9, 2022

Ditte Christiansen defended her PhD-thesis

At 9:00 the dissertation started with a very nice and clear presentation by Ditte about her thesis entitled: “Responses of boreal forest...

Dec 1, 2021

Landscape perspective important for climate adaptation of forest biodiversity conservation

People working with conservation of biodiversity in managed forest landscapes need to complement their toolbox with tools specifically...

Oct 22, 2021

Group excursion to Nyköping

Written by Jacqueline Lima Last Tuesday morning 19th of October, together with our guest Martin Kopecký, from the Dept. of GIS and Remote...

Oct 4, 2021

European forest microclimates mapped at high resolution - new paper out!

A new paper, published in Global Change Biology and co-authored by our lab, provides novel high-resolution Europe-wide maps for monthly...

Jun 16, 2021

Range dynamics - Transplant experiment fieldwork

Written by Jacqueline de Souza Lima As part of the project about the range dynamics of broadleaved tree species, we are evaluating how...

Jun 7, 2021

Drought experiment fieldwork

Written by Irena Koelemeijer The drought experiment has started! In this project, we look at the effects of severe summer drought on...

May 27, 2021

Microclimate effects of bark beetle attacks - logger fieldwork!

Written by Caroline Greiser The hot and dry summers of the recent years (particularly 2018 and 2019) caused an attack wave of the...

Mar 19, 2021

New forest microclimate review out!

written by Caroline Greiser In February 2020, a group of forest microclimate enthusiasts from all over the world met for a 3 days...

Jan 13, 2021

Biodiversity in streams in Ethiopia

I have good news! Today (2021-01-12) our application on "Water use, water quality/quantity and biodiversity across landscapes - synergies...

Dec 17, 2020

Beyene Zewdie defended his thesis!

On December 16th, 2020, it was finally the big day – the dissertation day for Beyene Zewdie. His thesis is entitled "Fungal disease...

Oct 15, 2020

Caroline Greiser's dissertation

On October 14 Caroline Greiser successfully defended her thesis entitled "Microclimate at range margins – consequences for boreal forest...

Oct 7, 2020

Group excursion to Limes Norrlandicus

On Tuesday morning 6th of October we left our offices at Stockholm University and headed towards the transitional region called Limes...

Sep 15, 2020

30 rainoutshelters and TOMST microclimate loggers installed

Irena was out in the woods setting up her large-scale experiment to study drought effects on forest biodiversity

Sep 15, 2020

New group member arrived from Brazil!

Jacqueline Lima from Brazil is joining our team as a postdoc. She will look at broadleaved trees, and their potential and actual...

Sep 15, 2020

Group excursion to an old burned area - Tyresta national park

We went out to explore fire scars on trees, moss and lichen succession, birds and beavers... From left to right: Kristoffer Hylander,...