Natalie Eva Iwanycki Ahlstrand

Natalie Eva Iwanycki Ahlstrand

Tenure track Assistant professor

I am a botanist with extensive experience in field botany, floristics, and herbarium & botanical garden curation.

I am currently investigating how climate change throughout the Anthropocene has impacted the timing of flowering, fruiting and other plant traits over time and space, and what this change means for connections with other organisms and processes (including phenological mismatches between plants and herbivores, pollinators, and interactions with humans).

I collect botanical data derived from natural history collections, living collections, and archival records, combined with methods in citizen and community science. 

Current projects include:

i) predicting mismatches in spring phenology over time and space in response to climate warming in Denmark using natural history collections and citizen science data (Find Foråret)
ii) studying the impacts of climate change on flowering phenology for allergenic pollen producing species using museum specimens
iii) determining how climate change affects functional plant traits (leaf area, plant height, plant growth) over time and space in Arctic and temperate biomes 

Students looking for projects are welcome to contact me. 

Primary fields of research

Plant phenology & climate change, plant traits, herbivory, populaton genomics, introduced plants, phylogeography, plant dispersal and biogeogaphy, citizen science.

Teaching

Citizen Science (PhD course / MSc course), Plant-Animal Interactions (BSc), Conservation (BSc), Conservation Biology (MSc), Tropical Botany, Science Communication and Outreach (MSc). Visit our Museum webpage for details.

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