Vigdis Vandvik

Plant and vegetation ecology, biodiversity, productivity, ecosystem responses to climate and land.use change, species interactions, experimental ecology, macroecology.

I am a community ecologist interested in how natural and human global change drivers affect plants, biodiversity, and ecosystem functions and services at different spatial and temporal scales. My research falls into three broad categories;

• How do local and regional processes interact to shape the patterns in diversity, abundance and function that we observe in nature?
• How does environmental changes affect plants, and how do these effects scale across levels of organization from individuals via populations to communities?
• What are the impacts of human land-use regimes, past and present, on terrestrial ecosystems?