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Botanists looking at an Acacia in the Algerian desert
Photo: Melilia Meshba
Student projects
At the GGBC there is a lot of interesting research going on, both at our academic partners as well as our public ones. Some projects are collaborations between both and provide a great opportunity for exciting degree projects at both bachelor and master's level. Check out the list below for previous student projects at the GGBC to get inspired and contact us if you would like to do a degree project on biodiversity!
Completed PhD projects
- William Osterman, 2025. Resolving pollination paradoxes: Bridging theory and empirical observations to understand pollination ecology and evolution
- Minna Seppänen Panas, 2025. Virtuella och verkliga platsers affordanser för lärande om biologisk mångfald – ett pragmatiskt och ekologiskt perspektiv på undervisning i formella, icke-formella och informella lärsituationer
- Oliver Manzi, 2024. Heat and drought responses of tropical trees in a warming world.
- Anne-Sophie Quatela, 2023. Bridging the past to the present: investigating species boundaries with herbarium specimens and next-generation-sequencing. A case study of circumpolar Silene sect. Physolychnis
- Ntwai Moiloa, 2023. Phylogenetic Relationships, Biogeography and Species Delimitation: A case study on southern African Silene (Caryophyllaceae)
- Tzu Tung Chen, 2023. Climate-associated human health effects
- Victor Lobanov, 2023. Nutrient Transfer in Aquaponic Systems – Optimizing microbial processes for greater circularity and economic viability
- Martin Eriksson , 2022. Modelling the Evolution of Species’ Ranges
- Wittemann Maria, 2022. Thermal plasticity and limitations in tropical trees
- Yannick Woudstra, 2021. Hidden in the Genomic Maze: The Detection, Capture and Application of low-copy nuclear genes in the giant genomes of Aloe vera and relatives.
- Melilia Mesbah, 2021. Etude taxonomique et biogéographique de quelques espèces du genre Silene L. (Caryophyllacées) en Algérie
- Miriam Ramírez Herranz, 2021. Macroevolutionary patterns of neotropical psittacines associated with the new open habitats that emerged during the Andean orogenesis
- Tobias Andermann, 2020. Advancing Evolutionary Biology: Genomics, Bayesian Statistics, and Machine Learning
- Harith Farooq, 2020Towards data-driven biodiversity conservation in Africa
- Sten Svantesson, 2020. Taxonomy and Systematics of Thelephorales - Glimpses Into its Hidden Hyperdiversity
- Josué Anderson Rêgo Azevedo, Oct 18, 2019. Origin, evolution and biodiversity of the Neotropical herpetofauna : patterns and processes of the world's richest and most threatened biota
- Camila Duarte Ritter, 2019. Assessing biodiversity : beyond the taxonomic impediment
- Mattias Lindholm, 2019. Heathlands – a lost world?
- Alexander Zizka, 2018. Big data insights into the distribution and evolution of tropical diversity
Completed MSc projects
- Simon Isaksson, 2024. Movement patterns and social dynamics of male African Savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana). Following the steps of giants.
- Lynn Kleinjan, 2025. Environmental and social determinants of elephant walking speed in conflict-prone areas.
- Varsha Rai Chalise, 2025. Diet Variation of insectivorous bats in Slottsskogen, Gothenburg.
- Lisa Jansson, 2025. Life cycle inventory analysis of animal feed: Development of Feed Inventory Data for Climate Assessment of Animal-Based Food Products Consumed in Sweden.
- Akari Bergquist, 2025. Seed shape evolution of Trichosanthes Pilosa. Andréasson Hanna, 2023. Business & Biodiversity – How businesses understand and work with biodiversity
- Relfsson Rebecka, 2023. African elephants' effect on the temporal use of elephant highway by predator and prey. Makgadikgadi Pans National Park.
- Ruijs Vera, 2023. Investigating the use of olfactory cues to re-direct African savannah elephant pathways. A potential conflict mitigation tool.
- Miranda Melissa, 2023. Estimating historic ranges of extinct scavenging birds from North America during the late Pleistocene using co-occurrence data from the fossil record.
- Giraldo Gómez Sebastián, Jun 14, 2023. Systematics and the evolution of flower symmetry of Posoqueria (Rubiaceae)
- Hemming Jens, 2023. Decreases over time in Shannon diversity of land snails
- Infanger Raphaela, 2022. Holocene vegetation change and its correlates in fennoscandia
- Ridley Rhonda, 2022. Species delimitation in Genipa (Rubiaceae) using integrative taxonomy
- Frida Edman, 2021. Animal welfare in a social life cycle assessment – A contribution to more holistic sustainability assessments.
- Adrian Hill, 2020. Does fruit colour affect the geographical distribution of palms
- Louisa Durkin, 2020. Relative impact of individual on global biodiversity loss
- Hanna Schork, 2019. Effects of habitat fragmentation on conservation efforts of two threatened plant species, Eryngium maritimum and Mertensia maritima.
- Hanna Svensson, 2018. Is prey defaunation a potential cause of carnivore range loss and eventual extinction?
- Laima Bagdonaite, 2019. Applications of next-generation sequencing data for a population genomics study of Lesser whitethroats.
Interested in doing a degree project in Biodiversity?
Contact info@ggbc.gu.se for a list of current BSc and MSc projects available with the GGBC
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