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Jane Uhd Jepsen
Position:    Senior Research Scientist

ORCID  
  Telephone: +47 417 65 419
  E-mail: jane.jepsen@nina.no
 Department:  NINA Tromsø

Knowledge areas
Herbivore-plant interactions, ecosystem ecology, ecological monitoring, geometrids, insect outbreaks, birch forest, arctic tundra, spatial modeling, GIS, remote sensing

Key qualifications
Ecologist with expertise in northern populations and ecosystems, in particular plant-herbivore interactions in sub-arctic birch forests and the forest-tundra ecotone. Among my main interests are studies of the spatio-temporal dynamics of outbreaking geometrid moth species, effects of insect outbreaks on forest ecosystems and ecological monitoring. I am an experienced used of GIS, R and remote sensing in population and landscape studies.

Education

  • 2004: PhD, wildlife ecology and ecological modelling, Univ. of Copenhagen

  • 1999: MSc, wildlife ecology, Univ. of Aarhus and Univ. Centre on Svalbard

Experience
  • 2014-present: Senior researcher, NINA Tromsø
  • 2009-2014: Researcher, NINA Tromsø
  • 2006 - 2009: Postdoc fellow, Univ. of Tromsø
  • 2005: Postdoc fellow, UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle
  • 2003: Marie Curie Training Site fellowship, UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle

Languages

Danish (native); Norwegian; English; some German

Worked in

Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany

Publications:

Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

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