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Kirsten O’Sullivan

Institution: University of Stirling
Theme: Atmosphere, Oceans & Climate: the fluid Earth
Theme: Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycles: Sustaining Life
Theme: Centre for Earth System Dynamics
Theme: Landscape Form, Use and Change: a dynamic Earth
Theme: Transformations in Society and Environmental Policy
Department / group: Biological and Environmental Sciences
Institution URL: https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/faculties/natural-sciences/biological-environmental-sciences/
Personal URL: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1017477
Google Scholar URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=otK9wG8AAAAJ&hl=en

Research interests:

Global change, forest ecology, climate impacts

Career history:

PhD Forest Ecology – University of Stirling – Funded by NERC IAPETUS – 2018 to present
MRes Biodiversity & Conservation – University of Leeds – Distinction – 2016-2017
BSc Conservation Biology – University of Aberdeen – First Class (Hons) – 2012-2016

Active research projects:

Changing distribution and composition of sub-tropical montane forests in Taiwan

Recent publications:

O’Sullivan, K.S.W., Ruiz‐Benito, P., Chen, J.C. and Jump, A.S., 2020. Onward but not always upward: individualistic elevational shifts of tree species in subtropical montane forests. Ecography.