I am a forest ecologist, working as a senior research scientist at Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Oslo, Norway. I also have a docentship in ecology and evolutionary biology, connected to the University of Helsinki, Finland. My research focuses on the impacts of management, land use and climate change on biodiversity and carbon sequestration and other ecological processes in the forest ecosystem, especially in soils, dead wood and vegetation. I address these topics in ongoing projects ForBioFunCtioN (PI), EcoForest (partner) and CONSEQUENCE (partner). In the ForestValue project SustMultBiomass (partner), we look for forest use solutions that would balance or optimise the delivery of climate, biodiversity and ecosystem services. In the Horizon Europe project BENCHMARKS (case study leader) we focus on indicators of soil health. I'm a partner in two Nordic networks that focus on integrated forest resource and biodiversity monitoring (INFOBIOM) and on soil monitoring (NorForSoil). My other projects deal with nature-based solutions, trait-mediated fungal community assembly, biodiversity scenarios under different climate change and forest management scenarios, effects of forest fragmentation on genetic variation in fungi, fungal translocations, ecosystem-based forest management, and assessments of Norwegian species for the Norwegian Red List of threatened species as well as the invasive alien species in Norway.

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Community ecology, ecosystem ecology, spatial ecology, fungal ecology, dispersal ecology, population dynamics, conservation biology, trait ecology, functional ecology, forest ecology, soil ecology, evolutionary biology, decomposer fungi, environmental DNA, climate change, land use change, forest management.