Viktor Gårdman

I am an industrial doctoral student at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk, with SLU Uppsala, Insect Ecology Unit, as my home university. I completed my master's degree in biodiversity and systematics at Uppsala University and conducted my thesis at SLU, Uppsala. I have previously worked with inventory and environmental monitoring of insects and birds for universities and companies.

My doctoral research concerns the ecology of mosquitoes and blackflies in Greenland. My main project focuses on the role of mosquitoes and blackflies in Arctic ecosystems. How important are they as pollinators, disease carriers, and food for spiders, flies and birds? What will happen to the ecosystem and these species groups if there would be more or fewer mosquitoes and blackflies in the future? I also aim to find out which environmental factors control how many mosquitoes and blackflies appear each summer, how different species of mosquitoes interact with each other, and which viruses they carry.

I also work with assessing the effectiveness of different insect trap types.

Continuous monitoring of newly established wasps (Vespinae) in Greenland.

https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.70023