Bryophyte Ecology in Northern Disturbed Ecosystems

自研究生学习以来，我的长期研究项目一直是泥炭地泥炭属物种的生态学，首先是酸雨（氮沉降）对泥炭地泥炭属物种的影响，最近了解了泥炭地泥炭属物种在干扰后演替早期的分布和更新生态位。这将是我研究计划的一个主要主题，但也将研究其他种类的苔藓植物，如占主导地位的沼泽苔藓和北方先驱高地苔藓。该研究项目的总体目的是提供基本的知识，了解是什么因素决定了泥炭地（沼泽和沼泽）或北方和亚北极高地受干扰土壤中苔藓的成功建立。研究的重点将是促进（一些植物如何从与邻居的密切联系中受益），以及这种植物-植物相互作用关系如何有助于理论植物生态学和提高我们对演替途径的预测能力。

Since graduate studies, my long term research program has been on the ecology of Sphagnum species in peatlands, first as impacted by acid rain (nitrogen deposition) and lately understanding their distribution and regeneration niche at early successional stages after disturbance. This will remain one main theme of my research programme but other groups of bryophytes such as brown mosses dominating fens and boreal pioneer upland bryophytes will also be studied. The general purpose of the research program will be to provide essential knowledge about what factors determine the success of establishment of mosses colonizing disturbed soils in peatlands (both for bogs and fens) or boreal and sub-arctic uplands. A focus of study will be on facilitation (how some plants benefit from growing in close association with neighbours) and how this plant-plant interaction relationship can contribute to theoritical plant ecology and improve our predictive ability of successional pathways.