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Stefan Andersson is a Professor of Plant Biology and Principal Investigator at Lund University, affiliated with the BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate) initiative. He holds academic appointments in the Faculty of Science, Department of Plant Biology and Biodiversity and Evolution. His teaching focuses on botany, floristics, plant evolution, and conservation biology.
Research Interests: Dr. Andersson’s work centers on plant evolutionary biology, particularly natural selection, ecotypic variation, floral diversification, and the evolutionary impacts of inbreeding. Key areas include:
- Local adaptation and ecotype formation in plants like Rhinanthus serotinus and Crepis tectorum.
- Floral reduction mechanisms in selfing plant lineages, linking resource allocation costs and inbreeding effects.
- Maintenance of floral color polymorphisms in Nigella degenii, involving genetic and environmental interactions.
- Quantitative genetics of threatened plant populations, with a focus on genetic erosion and landscape fragmentation impacts.
- Climate change effects analyzed via herbarium data, tracking flowering phenology shifts over centuries.
Grants & Activities: He leads the Lund University Plant Sciences network and supervises doctoral research (e.g., on Scorzoneroides autumnalis). Collaborations span Sweden and international partners like the University of East Anglia. Media engagements include public talks and interviews on urban flora conservation and agricultural landscape changes.
Labs/Teams: Active in interdisciplinary groups like BECC and LUPS, focusing on biodiversity, ecosystem resilience, and evolutionary genetics.
