Heather Wood

I am a Researcher at the Swedish Biodiversity Centre, SLU where I work on two projects Bat Migration Across the Baltic Sea (BAMBI) and ReWetForBats. BAMBI aims to understand where and when bats migrate across the Baltic Sea. Ultimately it aims to provide advice to local authorities on the placement and operation of offshore wind. ReWetForBats aims to assess the effectiveness of re-wetting of forests for bat populations.

Tack, A.J.M., Burger, H.F., Wood, H., Zewdie, B., Shimales, T., Ayalew, B., Mendesil, E. and Hylander, K., 2025. Bird and bat diversity, herbivory and trade-offs with yield in coffee agroforests in Arabica coffee’s native range. Basic and Applied Ecology. Link

Wood, H., Kimberley, A., Englund, W.F. and Cousins, S.A., 2025. Dietary differentiation of two co‐occurring common bat species (Eptesicus nilssonii and Pipistrellus pygmaeus). Wildlife Biology, p.e01436. Link

Darras et al 2025. Worldwide Soundscapes: a synthesis of passive acoustic monitoring across realms. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(5), e70021. Link

Wood, H., Kimberley, A., & Cousins, S. A. 2025. Contrasting responses of bats and macro-moths to structural complexity in forest borders. Forest Ecology and Management, 578, 122416.  Link.

Wood, H., 2024. Bats at northern latitudes: The influence of habitat and climate (Doctoral dissertation, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University). Link.

Wood, H. and Cousins, S.A., 2023. Variability in bat morphology is influenced by temperature and forest cover and their interactions. Ecology and Evolution, 13(1), p.e9695. Link.

Chibeya, D., Wood, H., Cousins, S., Carter, K., Nyirenda, M.A. and Maseka, H., 2021. How do African elephants utilize the landscape during wet season? A habitat connectivity analysis for Sioma Ngwezi landscape in Zambia. Ecology and evolution, 11(21), pp.14916-14931. Link.

Jakobsson, S., Wood, H., Ekroos, J. and Lindborg, R., 2020. Contrasting multi-taxa functional diversity patterns along vegetation structure gradients of woody pastures. Biodiversity and Conservation, 29(13), pp.3551-3572. Link.

Auffret, A.G., Kimberley, A., Plue, J., Skånes, H., Jakobsson, S., Waldén, E., Wennbom, M., Wood, H., Bullock, J.M., Cousins, S.A. and Gartz, M., 2017. HistMapR: Rapid digitization of historical land‐use maps in R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8(11), pp.1453-1457. Link.

Wood, H., Lindborg, R. and Jakobsson, S., 2017. European Union tree density limits do not reflect bat diversity in wood-pastures. Biological conservation, 210, pp.60-71. Link.

I have taught Landscape Ecology at the Masters level, teaching statistics, GIS, scientific writing, and supervising end of course projects and master thesis work. I have also lectured Biogeography at the undergraduate level and developed and taught a new online course in Bioegoegraphy.