Vincent Buness

I joined the Department of Forest Ecology and Management as a PhD student in 2023.
My overarching interest is how forestry practices affect ecosystem services. Biodiversity is my focal lens, but I approach it together with ecosystem resource dynamics (light, nutrients, structural complexity) and carbon cycling.
My current work combines field surveys, sequencing of fungal communities, LiDAR-derived forest structure metrics and soil chemistry to disentangle the mechanisms linking management and multi-taxon diversity.
I am also part of an international team quantifying ecosystem carbon stocks in managed and natural forests in the country of Georgia, bridging policy-relevant carbon accounting with biodiversity conservation.

Research (areas & methods)

• Disturbance ecology and forest succession
• Multi-taxon biodiversity (plants / fungi / beetles)
• Ecosystem carbon storage and nutrient cycling
• Forest structural complexity (Terrestrial laser scanning)
• Generalized additive models, mixed models and community ordination in R

• Silviculture course (SLU, Umeå) – assessed and provided in-depth feedback on MSc students’ research-proposal drafts.
• Forest Ecosystems Ecology (SLU) – group leader guiding a student team through the entire research cycle, from study design to data analysis and oral presentation.
  B.Sc. thesis supervision (SLU, 2024 – 25) – primary adviser for a thesis on beetle diversity in northern Swedish pine forests.
• Introduction to Soil Science – Field Course (Technical University of Munich) – led undergraduate field exercises on soil description, sampling and classification.
• Fundamentals of Field Soil Science – exam-oriented practical days, led undergraduate field exercises on soil description, sampling and classification.
• Spring School on Soils & Soil Survey (Tbilisi, Georgia, 2024) – invited instructor for intensive course on soil profiling, carbon-stock assessment and field mapping within the Georgian carbon-stocks project.