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Johan Asplund
  • Professor
    • Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management
+4767231654
johan.asplund@nmbu.no
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I am interested in experimental and functional forest ecology. Primarily I am interested in species-driven ecological processes such as herbivory and decomposition and the role functional traits play in driving these processes. Consequently, I am also focusing how functional traits vary with environmental change. I am interested in how interactions between plant-derived defence compounds and soil food-webs affect soil processes related to carbon and nutrient cycling. I have also focused on lichens and the role they play in the ecosystem especially how they impact higher trophic levels.

I am currently involved in the project "EcoForest - Forestry effects on biodiversity, carbon stocks and ecological processes in mature boreal forests" funded by the Research Council of Norway.

My publications at Google Scholar and at ResearchGate

 

 

 

Current PhD-candidates:

Milda Norkute (2021-; co-supervisor)

Rieke Lo Madsen (2021-; co-supervisor) The effect of forestry on carbon storage in boreal forest

Lea-Rebekka Tonjer (2020-) The role of interactions between soil fauna and polyphenols for nutrient and carbon cycling 

Vilde Haukenes (2020-; co-supervisor) Historical drivers of biodiversity and carbon stocks in boreal forests

Yngvild Ransedokken (2017-; co-supervisor) Plant- and fungi-derived belowground carbon in different boreal forest types

 

Previous PhD-candidates

Kristel van Zuijlen (2016-2019) Functional traits and decomposition of lichens, bryophytes and vascular plants in an alpine ecosystem

Ruben E. Roos (2016-2019) Functional traits across primary producer groups and their effects on micro-arthropod communities in alpine Norway

  • Publications
    My publications in Cristin

    My publications at Google Scholar and at ResearchGate

  • Projects & research

    Projects

    From spruce to beech forests - fundamental ecosystem transformation driven by climate change
    We ask: how will climate change and other stress factors interact to transform spruce ecosystems to beech ecosystems in the future?

    External projects

    Forestry effects on biodiversity, carbon stocks and ecological processes in mature boreal forests

    Areas of research

    Specialities: 

    • Forest Ecology

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