Activities of Associate Professor Michael Ørsted’s research group

Global biodiversity and natural ecosystems are threatened by climate change, habitat destruction, invasive species and/or emerging diseases. These anthropogenic pressures force species to adapt and migrate to overcome adverse environmental conditions or face extinction, resulting in changes in the distribution of animal and plant species, population sizes and the seasonal timing of biological events. Despite these widespread implications, our ability to understand and predict eco-climatic responses of species communities in a warming and more unpredictable world remains limited.

My research group investigates adaptive responses and ecological ramifications of environmental stress from the organism to the ecosystem level. Our research focuses on eco-physiological experiments and ecological modelling of distributions, population dynamics and interactions of species and their communities in the context of climate warming and global land-use changes. We specialise in geospatial and statistical data analysis using AI/machine learning.