Glenn Svensson, Ph.D.
Born 1972 in Växjö, Sweden. Studied biology at Lund University where I got my B.Sc. in 1998. Received my Ph.D. in chemical ecology and ecotoxicology at the same university in 2002 (thesis title: Disruption of moth mating behaviour by olfactory and auditory cues). I spent a few years abroad as a postdoc (USA 2003-2005, Japan 2006) before returning back to Lund.
My research interest is focused on how insects use chemical signals to find mates and host plants. I am using moths and beetles as model systems to study both basic and applied aspects of insect chemical ecology.
Currently I am involved in the following projects:
- Pheromones for monitoring and control of insects in spruce seed orchards
- The PheroBio project (Pheromone monitoring of Biodiversity)
- The chemical ecology of obligate pollination mutualisms
I am teaching in undergraduate courses on chemical ecology, sensory biology and animal ecology.
Welcome to examine my list of publications (see below & right) and please ask for reprints via e-mail if you are interested in any of the papers I have published.
Selected publications
Svensson, G.P., Löfstedt, C. and Skals, N. 2004. The odour makes the difference: male moths attracted by sex pheromones ignore the threat from predatory bats. Oikos 104:91-97.
Svensson, G.P., Hickman, M.O. Jr., Bartram, S., Boland, W., Pellmyr, O. and Raguso, R.A. 2005. Chemistry and geographic variation of floral scent in Yucca filamentosa (Agavaceae). American Journal of Botany 92:1624-1631.
Larsson, M.C. and Svensson, G.P. 2009. Pheromones for monitoring rare and threatened insects: exploiting a pheromone-kairomone system to estimate prey and predator abundance Conservation Biology 23:1516-1525.
Svensson, G.P., Okamoto, T., Kawakita, A., Goto, R. and Kato, M. 2010. Chemical ecology of an obligate pollination mutualism: testing the ‘private channel’ hypothesis in the Breynia-Epicephala association. New Phytologist 186:995-1004.
Svensson, G.P., Pellmyr, O. and Raguso, R.A. 2011. Pollinator attraction to volatiles from virgin and pollinated host flowers in a yucca/moth obligate mutualism. Oikos 120:1577-1583.
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Glenn Svensson
Associate professor
Functional zoology
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E-mail:
Glenn.Svensson@biol.lu.se
Pheromones for monitoring and control of insects in spruce seed orchards
The PheroBio project (Pheromone monitoring of Biodiversity)
The chemical ecology of obligate pollination mutualisms
Control of pest insects in clover seed production
Chemical ecology in the evolution of sociality and nest parasitism
Pheromones and kairomones for control of stored products pests