Arvid Lindh

Tropical rainforests are among the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet, but they are threatned by deforestation and forest degradation. Often they end up converted into plantations for palm oil or industrial tree plantations. Concurrently we see a continually rising demand for forest products, both due to population growth and the transition away from fossil materials and fuels. The majority of this demand (ca 80%) is projected to be supplied from the tropical biome.

My main research focus is exploring how plant functional traits, like wood density or leaf nutrient content, in trees native to Borneo, are related to ecosystem services like carbon sequestration, biodiveristy, and financial potential. I hope to find tree species that are valuable in financial terms, but also can provide important habitat for associated flora and fauna and combat climate change.

Check out the Sow-a-Seed page for more info on our groups research: https://www.slu.se/sowaseed 

2024 - Degree of doctor of philosophy in biology, department of forest ecology and management, faculty of forest science, Swedish Univeristy of Agricultural Sciences 

Filosofie doktorsaxemen i biologi, institutionen för skogens ekologi och skötsel, fakulten för skogsvetenskap vid Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

2018 - Master´s degree in nature conservation and conservation biology, department of biology at the faculty of natural sciences, Lund University, Sweden

2016 - Bachelor´s degree in biology, department of biology at the faculty of natural sciences, Lund University, Sweden

Doctoral thesis:

Multi-functional trait-based species selection for regenerating tropical rainforests
https://publications.slu.se/?file=publ/show&id=130466

Scientific papers:

Lindh, A., Sundqvist, M.K., Axelsson, E.P. et al. Functional traits to predict financial value of enrichment planting in degraded tropical forests. New Forests 55, 1283–1310 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11056-024-10030-4

Sundqvist, M.K., Hasselquist, N.J., Jensen, J. et al. Accounting for deep soil carbon in tropical forest conservation payments. Sci Rep 14, 16772 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-65138-6

Pain, A., Marquardt, K., Lindh, A. et al. What Is Secondary about Secondary Tropical Forest? Rethinking Forest Landscapes. Hum Ecol 49, 239–247 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-020-00203-y

Rundlöf, M., Stuligross, C., Lindh, A., Malfi, R. L., Burns, K., Mola, J. M., Cibotti, S., & Williams, N. M. (2022). Flower plantings support wild bee reproduction and may also mitigate pesticide exposure effects. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59, 2117–2127. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14223

Popular science:

https://internt.slu.se/en/news-originals/2024/8/selecting-the-right-tree-species-a-possible-key-to-sustainable-tropical-forestry/

https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/7236477

https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/7235936