

My research
I have a strong interest in sustainability and I am working in several projects at CEC. My main engagement is in urban green infrastructure and their benefits for people as ecosystem services. Specifically, how and to what extent nature based solutions sustainably can be used to adapt to and to mitigate climate change. I am also engaged is projects related to rural areas, especially pollination, organic farming and conservation of farmland birds.
My background
I have a MSc in Chemical engineering and a PhD degree in Applied Biochemistry. As a PhD student, I worked with salt tolerance and water tolerance of plants, a major issue in many agricultural areas of the word. Irrigation is in many areas affecting the environment, by salinize land and lowering groundwater levels. In some areas, arable land has become so saline that it no longer can be used for agricultural production. My work as a PhD student as well as a researcher after graduation was a mix of laboratory work in molecular biology and biochemistry and data analysis of genomic data.
A few years after defending my thesis I left academia to work as a freelancing data analyst scientist. I have more than 20 years of experience using R, in various subjects as GIS, statistical modeling, proxy-based modelling, process based modelling, machine learning, bioinformatics, genomics, GLS (global location sensor) using light level geolocation data and database analysis.
Publications
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Urban tree composition is associated with breeding success of a passerine bird, but effects vary within and between years
Johan Kjellberg Jensen, Johan Ekroos, Hannah Watson, Pablo Salmón, Peter Olsson, et al.
(2023) Oecologia, 201 p.585-597
Journal articleBackyard buzz : human population density modifies the value of vegetation cover for insect pollinators in a subtropical city
Anna S. Persson, Amy Westman, Tobias J. Smith, Margaret M. Mayfield, Peter Olsson, et al.
(2022) Urban Ecosystems
Journal articleGenomic divergence and a lack of recent introgression between commercial and wild bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)
Cecilia Kardum Hjort, Josephine R. Paris, Peter Olsson, Lina Herbertsson, Joachim R. de Miranda, et al.
(2022) Evolutionary Applications, 15 p.365-382
Journal articleScaling up nature-based solutions for climate-change adaptation : Potential and benefits in three European cities
Chiara Cortinovis, Peter Olsson, Niklas Boke-Olén, Katarina Hedlund
(2022) Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 67
Journal articleAssessing Potential for and Benefits of Scaling up Nature-Based Solutions in Malmö
Chiara Cortinovis, Peter Olsson, Niklas Boke-Olén, Katarina Hedlund
(2022) Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 242 LNCE p.3-11
Conference paperUtmaningar och möjligheter
Katarina Hedlund, Marianne Hall, Peter Olsson, Ullrika Sahlin, Maria Ingimarsdottir, et al.
(2022) CEC Rapport , p.48-60
Report chapterEvaluating predictive performance of statistical models explaining wild bee abundance in a mass-flowering crop
Maria Blasi, Ignasi Bartomeus, Riccardo Bommarco, Vesna Gagic, Michael Garratt, et al.
(2021) Ecography, 44 p.525-536
Journal articleBiologiska hot mot humlor
Eva Forsgren, Jenny Henriksson, Lina Herbertsson, Ingrid Karlsson, Joachim R. de Miranda, et al.
(2020)
ReportWild bees and hoverflies respond differently to urbanisation, human population density and urban form
Anna S. Persson, Johan Ekroos, Peter Olsson, Henrik G. Smith
(2020) Landscape and Urban Planning, 204
Journal articleLow frequencies of supernormal clutches in the Southern Dunlin and the Temminck’s Stint
Veli Matti Pakanen, Donald Blomqvist, Torgrim Breiehagen, Lars-Åke Flodin, Olavi Hildén, et al.
(2019) Ardea, 107 p.61-74
Journal articleA suboptimal array of options erodes the value of CAP ecological focus areas
Lovisa Nilsson, Yann Clough, Henrik G. Smith, Johanna Alkan Olsson, Mark V. Brady, et al.
(2019) Land Use Policy, 85 p.407-418
Journal articleUnravelling migration connectivity reveals unsustainable hunting of the declining ortolan bunting
Frédéric Jiguet, Alexandre Robert, Romain Lorrillière, Keith A. Hobson, Kevin J. Kardynal, et al.
(2019) Science Advances, 5
Journal articleEkologiska fokusarealer i samverkan : Utvärdering av effekter på ekosystemtjänster, jordbruk och administration
Juliana Dänhardt, Lovisa Nilsson, Jordan Hristov, Johanna Alkan Olsson, Mark Brady, et al.
(2017)
ReportGene expression in the brain of a migratory songbird during breeding and migration.
John Boss, Miriam Liedvogel, Max Lundberg, Nils Reischke, Peter Olsson, et al.
(2016) Movement Ecology, 4
Journal articleProlonged stopover duration characterises migration strategy and constraints of a long-distance migrant songbird
Debora Arlt, Peter Olsson, James W Fox, Matthew Low, Tomas Pärt
(2015) Animal Migration, 2 p.47-62
Journal articleWintering area and migration routes for Ortolan Buntings Emberiza hortulana from Sweden determined with light-geologgers
Peter Olsson, Gunnar Selstam, Jan Sondell
(2015) Ornis Svecica, 25 p.3-14
Journal articleIn Tundra Plovers the Frequency of Inner Flight Feather Replacement Varies with Length of Long-Distance Flights
Jopp Jukerna, Johan Van Rhijn, Peter Olsson, Theunis Piersma
(2013) Ardea, 101 p.121-132
Journal articleAn oat branmeal influences blood insulin levels and related gene sets in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of healthy subjects
Matilda Ulmius, Anna Johansson Persson, Morten Krogh, Peter Olsson, Gunilla Önning
(2011) Genes & Nutrition, 6 p.429-439
Journal articleIdentification of Colletotrichum species associated with anthracnose disease of coffee in Vietnam
Thi Hang Nguyen Phuong, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Peter Olsson, Erland Liljeroth
(2010) European Journal of Plant Pathology, 127 p.73-87
Journal articleCan intensively farmed arable land be favourable for birds during migration? The case of the Eurasian golden plover Pluvialis apricaria
Åke Lindström, Juliana Dänhardt, Martin Green, Raymond Klaassen, Peter Olsson
(2010) Journal of Avian Biology, 41 p.154-162
Journal articleInvolvement of the ARRO-1 gene in adventitious root formation in apple
Anders Smolka, Margareta Welander, Peter Olsson, Anna Holefors, Li-Hua Zhu
(2009) Plant Science, 177 p.710-715
Journal articleFunctional expression of five Arabidopsis fatty acyl-CoA reductase genes in Escherichia coli
Thuy T. P. Doan, Anders S. Carlsson, Mats Hamberg, Leif Bülow, Sten Stymne, et al.
(2009) Journal of Plant Physiology, 166 p.787-796
Journal articleMolecular and Metabolic Aspects of Plant and Bacterial Salt Tolerance
Peter Olsson
(2005)
DissertationExpression of bovine calmodulin in tobacco plants confers faster germination on saline media
Peter Olsson, Jenny Lindberg, Marianne Sommarin, Staffan Persson, Leif Bülow
(2004) Plant Science, 166 p.1595-1604
Journal articleA chiffchaff Phylloscopus c. collybita with mixed chiffchaff and willow warbler Ph. trochilus song - genetic evidence.
Staffan Bensch, LGR Nilsson, P Nothagen, P Olsson, Mikael Åkesson
(2001) Ornis Svecica, 11 p.108-111
Journal articleKinetics of the coupled reaction catalysed by a fusion protein of yeast mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase and citrate synthase: Kinetics of a fusion protein of MDH and CS
Henrik Pettersson, Peter Olsson, Leif Bülow, Gösta Pettersson
(2000) European Journal of Biochemistry, 267 p.5041-5046
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