About me
I am a landscape ecologist...... with a broad background in geosciences, biology and conservation. My current research circles around climate at organism-relevant scales, or so-called microclimate. I measure, model and map temperatures near the ground and investigate how this small-scale variation affects ground-dwelling plants and animals. I have worked with mosses, lichens, vascular plants and insects – mainly in the Swedish forest or agricultural landscape. I am getting more and more interested in water, and currently investigate how soil moisture drives forest microclimate. During my master's program, I intensively studied peatlands and palaeoecology and carry since a passion for these fascinating ecosystems and landscape archives.
ContactCaroline Greiser
Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Physical Geography Stockholm University, Sweden Guest researcher Department of Forest Ecology and Management Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU caroline.greiser[at]su.se University profile page Google scholar |
CV
2022 - 2025
Researcher at Department of Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden Project: "ForestBuffer: Securing the capacity of forests to buffer climate extremes - the interplay between canopy and soil water" 2020 - 2021 Researcher at Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Sweden Project: "Modelling microclimate as inputs for thermal physiological models of insects" PI: Philipp Lehmann 2015 – 2020 PhD in Ecology and Evolution in October 2020, Stockholm University, Sweden Thesis: “Microclimate at range margins – consequences for boreal forest understory species” Supervisors: Kristoffer Hylander, Johan Ehrlén, Eric Meineri, Miska Luoto Download thesis pdf here. 2007 – 2013 Diploma (equivalent to BSc + MSc) in Landscape Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Greifswald, Germany Focus on vegetation and peatland ecology Thesis: “The archive value of peatlands” Supervisors: Hans Joosten, Annie Wojatschke |
Publications
Kemppinen et al. (2024)
Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography Greiser et al. (2023) Higher soil moisture increases microclimate temperature buffering in temperate broadleaf forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Christiansen et al. (2023) Effects of past and present microclimates on northern and southern plant species in a managed forest landscape. Journal of Vegetation Science Haesen et al. (2023) ForestClim—Bioclimatic variables for microclimate temperatures of European forests. Global Change Biology Gril et al. (2023) Slope and equilibrium: A parsimonious and flexible approach to model microclimate. Methods in Ecology and Evolution Greiser et al. (2022) Microclimatic variation affects developmental phenology, synchrony and voltinism in an insect population. Functional Ecology Hylander et al. (2021) Climate adaptation of biodiversity conservation in managed forest landscapes. Conservation Biology Lembrechts et al. (2022) Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology De Lombaerde et al. (2022) Maintaining forest cover to enhance temperature buffering under future climate change. Science of the Total Environment Haesen et al. (2021) ForestTemp–Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests. Global Change Biology Greiser et al. (2021) Warm range margin of boreal bryophytes and lichens not directly limited by temperatures. Journal of Ecology De Frenne et al. (2021) Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda. Global Change Biology Greiser et al. (2020) Climate limitation at the cold edge: contrasting perspectives from species distribution modelling and a transplant experiment. Ecography Greiser et al. (2019) Hiding from the climate: Characterizing microrefugia for boreal forest understory species. Global Change Biology Greiser et al. (2018) Monthly microclimate models in a managed boreal forest landscape. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Greiser and Joosten (2018) Archive value: measuring the palaeo-information content of peatlands in a conservation and compensation perspective. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management |