Anna Sofie Persson

Research within my PhD-project focused on how pollinating insects, mainly solitary bees and bumblebees, are affected by the surrounding landscape. Steep declines in pollinator abundances have been recognised in Western Europe, as well as in other parts of the world. Among other things I study foraging behaviour of bees and use monitoring at a landscape level, as tools to try understanding this decline. The title of my PhD-thesis was “Effects of landscape context on populations of bumblebees”. It was presented in May 2011. It was financed by FORMAS and supervised by Prof. Henrik Smith and assistant supervisor Ola Olsson, Lund University.

I am also interested in more general conservation biology, landscape and spatial ecological questions, landscape planning problems and biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban settings.

CV

• MSc in Ecology, Lund University, Sweden. 2002.
• BSc in landscape Planning, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp. 2010.
• PhD in Animal Ecology, Lund University, Sweden. 2011.

Research projects

Consequences of organic farming and farmland heterogeneity on foraging, fitness and species richness of bumblebees and solitary bees

Selected publications

Persson, A.S., Olsson, O., Rundlöf, M. & Smith, H.G. (2010) Land use intensity and landscape complexity -Analysis of landscape characteristics in an agricultural region in Southern Sweden. Agriculture Ecosystems and the Environment, 136, 169-176.

Samnegård, U., Persson, A.S. & Smith, H.G. (2011) Gardens benefit bees and enhance pollination in intensively managed farmland. Biological Conservation, 144 (11), 2602-2606.

Persson, A.S. & Smith, H.G. (2011) Bumblebee colonies produce larger foragers in complex landscapes. Basic and Applied Ecology, 12 (8), 695-702.

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Contact information

Anna Persson
PhD
Biodiversity

Phone:
+46462223820

E-mail:
Anna.Persson@biol.lu.se

Collaborators

Henrik Smith

Ola Olsson

Lund University, Box 117, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden. Tel: +46 (0)46 222 00 00