Juliana Dániel-Ferreira

I am interested in how land use and landscape changes affect biodiversity, particularly in environments exposed to recurring and long-term disturbances from infrastructure such as roads, railways, and power line corridors. My current research focuses on how invasive plants along roadsides can be managed and how they impact native flora and pollinators. I also investigate how conservation measures can be adapted in these habitats to benefit both biodiversity and people.

My research includes the spread and management of invasive plants in infrastructure environments, how and when ecological traps emerge along roads and railways, and how urban areas can be designed to support pollinators. The goal is to contribute knowledge that can form the basis for more sustainable future landscapes.

I earned my PhD in Ecology in 2021 at the Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). My dissertation focused on the importance of infrastructure habitats for plant and pollinator diversity across different spatial scales.

I hold a Master’s degree in Biology from Linköping University and have also worked aiming to understand how butterflies respond to landscape composition.

Dániel‐Ferreira, J., Lennartsson, T., Wissman, J., Knudsen, C., & Eckstein, R. L. (2024). Vascular plant diversity in Swedish road verges of high conservation value is threatened by the invasive alien herb Lupinus polyphyllus Lindley. Nordic Journal of Botany, e04438.

Dániel-Ferreira, J., Fourcade, Y., Bommarco, R., Wissman, J., & Öckinger, E. (2023). Communities in infrastructure habitats are species rich but only partly support species associated with semi-natural grasslands. Journal of Applied Ecology.

Dániel-Ferreira, J., Berggren, Å., Bommarco, R., Wissman, J., & Öckinger, E. (2022). Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic. Biological Conservation 272, 109643.

Dániel-Ferreira, J., Berggren, Å., Wissman, J., & Öckinger, E. (2021). Road verges are corridors and roads barriers for the movement of flower-visiting insects. Ecography, 2022(2).

Dániel-Ferreira, J., Bommarco, R., Wissman, J., & Öckinger, E. (2020). Linear infrastructure habitats increase landscape-scale diversity of plants but not of flower-visiting insects. Scientific reports 10:21374.

Bergman, K. O., Dániel-Ferreira, J., Milberg, P., Öckinger, E., & Westerberg, L. (2018). Butterflies in Swedish grasslands benefit from forest and respond to landscape composition at different spatial scales. Landscape Ecology, 1-16.

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