Research interests

Stochastic population growth and population extinction risk
(with Tobias Jeppsson and Tomas Pärt)

Population Viability Analysis of the Scandinavian Wolf population
(in collaboration with the Scandinavian Wolf  Project SKANDULV)

Population dynamics of longhorn beetles
(with Tobias Jeppsson)

Diversity of coastal breeding birds in the Baltic Sea archipelago
(with Maria Nord, Dept Ecology, and Jan Darpö and Michael Ajneståhl, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University)

Some recent publications

Jeppsson, T., Lindhe, A., Gärdenfors, U., Forslund, P. 2010. The use of historical collections to estimate population trends: A case study using Swedish longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Biological Conservation 143: 1940-1950.

Arlt, D., Forslund, P., Jeppsson, T., Pärt, T. 2008. Habitat-specific population growth of a farmland bird. PLoS ONE 3(8): e3006. doi:10.1371/

Olofsson, A., Danell, Ö., Forslund, P., Åhman, 2008. B. Approaches to estimate body condition from slaughter records in reindeer. Rangifer 28: 103-120.

Low, M., Part, T., Forslund, P. 2007. Age-specific variation in reproduction is largely explained by the timing of territory establishment in the New Zealand stitchbird Notiomystis cincta. Journal of Animal Ecology 76: 459-470.  

Teaching

In teach mainly in the following courses:
Applied Population Biology (masters level), course leader and lecturer
Conservation Biology (candidate level), lecturer

Director of PhD studies

I work part time as Director of PhD studies at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, SLU.