Simen Pedersen

Simen Pedersen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Forestry and Outback Studies, Faculty of Applied Ecology, Agricultural Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Inland Norway, Campus Evenstad. His research focuses on climate change impacts on wildlife, particularly adaptive responses in mountain hares and deer populations.

• Key Research Themes: Climate-driven camouflage mismatch in mountain hares, stress physiology in hunted populations, and trophic interactions between large herbivores and forest ecosystems.
• Methodology: Integrates GPS tagging, camera trap data from SCANDCAM, and molecular techniques to study adaptive genetics and behavioral responses.

Publication Trends: Recent work spans from 2025–2016, emphasizing climate adaptation, herbivory impacts, and ecological sustainability. Collaborations with international scientists (Australia, Sweden, Norway) appear across journals like Global Change Biology and Ecology and Evolution.

Students: Supervises PhD researcher Simen M Talleraas in the TaigaClimate project, which examines climate and management effects on deer populations.

Labs & Teams: Affiliated with the WILDCOM research group (Ecological Communities in Change), working on wildlife population dynamics and habitat use through projects like Hare's change of costume and Territory use in hares.