Personnel

Below you can find a short presentation for each person who works in Pro Natura. You can get directly in touch with the person you want using the contact details below. If you are not sure who to contact, then send us a message here and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Andrea Albeck

Andrea Albeck

Andrea Albeck is a conservation biologist with a focus on terrestrial conservation. Her main interests are ecology, wild pollinators, and management. At Pro Natura, Andrea works with Biodiversity Assessments (NVI) according to the Swedish Standard and surveys of pollinators, birds, species-rich road verges, veteran trees, and the development of management plans. She also works with GIS.  
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Location: Alingsås Mobile: 076 – 108 97 66 E-mail: andrea.albeck@pro-natura.net
Claes Hellsten

Claes Hellsten

Claes Hellsten works with the Östra Vätterbranterna Biosphere Reserve on behalf of WWF. Nature school teacher (Ekobussen, Jönköping municipality), small-scale farmer, works with education, landscape management and protection, restoration (woodland, natural pastures), biological and cultural heritage, collaborative projects with organisations, authorities and farmers.
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Location: Jönköping Mobile: 076 – 671 95 52 E-mail: claes.hellsten@pro-natura.net
Elisabet Ottosson

Elisabet Ottosson

Is an ecologist and conservation biologist with a PhD in forest mycology. Elisabet undertakes different types of surveys in terrestrial environments, especially in boreal and nemoral forests and grasslands. She also designs ecological studies and data analyses. Elisabet is particularly interested in fungi and is a board member of the Swedish Mycological Society.
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Location: Uppsala Mobile: 076 – 426 36 27 E-mail: elisabet.ottosson@pro-natura.net
Emma Karlsson

Emma Karlsson

Trained biologist specialising in nature conservation and ecology. Emma works primarily with different surveys, including birds, veteran trees, species-rich road verges, and Biodiversity Assessments (NVI) according to the Swedish Standard . She also writes management plans, works with GIS, and has a great interest in nature photography. Her main interests are birds, bats, and botany. Emma sits on the board for the Örebro Botany Society.
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Location: Örebro Phone: 076 – 146 69 17 E-mail: emma.karlsson@pro-natura.net
Johan Ennerfelt

Johan Ennerfelt

is a trained conservation biologist and species specialist. He has a deep interest in terrestrial biology but has his greatest expertise in entomology and ornithology. In the world of entomology, Johan has primarily specialised in flies. He works mainly with surveys of various types, such as targeted species surveys, bird surveys and Biodiversity Assessments (NVI) according to the Swedish Standard . He also likes to work with species identification assignments. In his spare time, he is active in local nature conservation organisations and enjoys sharing knowledge about species and biodiversity.
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Location: Göteborg Mobile: 073 – 041 56 14 E-mail: johan.ennerfelt@pro-natura.net
Kurt-Anders Johansson

Kurt-Anders Johansson

Kurt-Anders works primarily as a manager within RÄFS Nature Conservation Organisation with practical nature conservation work. He has great expertise and enthusiasm for mycology and has been chairman of Västgötabergen Fungi Club for more than 25 years. For many years he has also worked with botany, bryology, and ornithology.
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Location: Skövde Mobile: 070 – 630 17 36 Phone: 0500 – 41 17 80 E-mail: kurt-anders.johansson@pro-natura.net
Leif Andersson

Leif Andersson

Conservation biologist and plant ecologist working primarily with surveys. Botany in most areas. Project management. Method development, teaching, and specialist in broadleaved woodland. Data issues, GIS. Has been active as Swedish project manager for the woodland key habitat surveys in Estonia and Lithuania and western Russia. Participated in the working group that developed the Swedish Biodiversity Assessment Standard (Naturvärdesinventering).
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Location: Norra Västergötland Mobile: 070 – 657 17 46 E-mail: leif.andersson@pro-natura.net
Lisa Stridh

Lisa Stridh

is a biologist specialising in ecology and nature conservation. Main interests are ecology, botany and nature conservation management. Works primarily with surveys, including trees, vascular plants, species-rich road verges, and Biodiversity Assessments (NVI) according to the Swedish Standard . Also works with GIS, aerial photograph interpretation and mapping.
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Location: Vänersborg Mobile: 070 – 176 52 28 E-mail: lisa.stridh@pro-natura.net
Ola Bengtsson

Ola Bengtsson

Ola is a nature conservation biologist who works mainly with surveys of various types, such as Biodiversity Assessments (NVI) according to the Swedish Standard. He also works with management issues and monitoring in different types of terrestrial habitats such as broadleaved woodlands, grasslands, fringe and mantle, sandy areas, and coastal habitats. Important species groups are vascular plants, mosses, lichens, birds, and butterflies. Ola also works with GIS and the analysis of ecological data and how analysis of such data can be used and translated into practical nature conservation.
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Location: Alingsås Phone: 070 – 659 42 57 E-mail: ola.bengtsson@pro-natura.net
Ola Hammarström

Ola Hammarström

Ola is a conservation biologist and has worked with surveys and nature conservation management since 2013. He has a wide range of expertise in terrestrial habitats with a special focus on woodlands and cryptogams. Ola is a member of the Swedish Species Information Centre’s expert committee for lichens. Ola has his base in Roslagen.
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Location: Stockholm Mobile: 072 – 854 44 11 E-mail: ola.hammarstrom@pro-natura.net
Raul Vicente

Raul Vicente

Raul is an experienced ecologist and species specialist with both breadth and depth in his perspective. Raul has been working with Biodiversity Assessments (NVI) according to the Swedish Standard , mapping of veteran trees, as well as both general and in-depth species surveys. He is a specialist in the identification of birds, lichens, and spiders but has also undertaken many insect surveys (wood-living insects, pollinators, butterflies etc.).
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Location: Stockholm Mobile: 072 – 560 16 13 E-mail: raul.vicente@pro-natura.net
Robert Ennerfelt

Robert Ennerfelt

is a trained conservation biologist and species specialist. He has a great interest in terrestrial biology, in particular entomology and ornithology. Within entomology, he has primarily specialised in parasitic wasps. He works mainly with surveys of various types, such as targeted species surveys, bird surveys and Biodiversity Assessments (NVI) according to the Swedish Standard . He also likes to work with species identification assignments. Robert regularly writes popular scientific articles on birds in the publication Fåglar på Västkusten for the Göteborg Ornithology Society.
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Location: Göteborg Mobile: 073 – 827 55 52 E-mail: robert.ennerfelt@telia.com
Rolf-Göran Carlsson

Rolf-Göran Carlsson

Rolf-Göran has worked for many years as the works supervisor within RÄFS Nature Conservation Organisation and has led a team that manages nature reserves and other areas in Skövde municipality that require intensive management. He is also a keen mycologist and is responsible for the database of species for Västgötabergen Fungi Club. He is a very keen amateur botanist.
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Location: Skövde Mobile: 070 – 571 34 35 E-mail: rolf.goran.carlsson@pro-natura.net
Thomas Appelqvist

Thomas Appelqvist

Thomas is a nature conservation biologist and species specialist who has worked with biodiversity surveys, nature conservation reports and management issues since the 1970s. He has a wide knowledge and experience within terrestrial nature conservation, but particularly enjoys working in the rural landscape, broadleaved woodlands, and with beetles and wasps. He is also a very experienced teacher from Göteborg University and has a PhD in wood-decay fungi associated with spruce.
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Location: Göteborg Mobile: 076 – 241 32 15 E-mail: thomas.appelqvist@pro-natura.net
Tomas Fasth

Tomas Fasth

Works with surveys of vascular plants, lichens, mosses, mammals and birds in the rural landscape, woodlands, and wetlands. Tomas also works with Biodiversity Assessments (NVI) according to the Swedish Standard . His geographical speciality is Småland.  
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Location: Småländska höglandet Mobile: 073 – 063 15 06 E-mail: tomas.fasth@pro-natura.net
Vikki Bengtsson

Vikki Bengtsson

is an ecologist and has worked professionally with nature conservation since 1992 both in Sweden and England. Throughout her career she has worked with issues around the practical management and restoration of old trees and wood pastures as well as veteranisation. Vikki trains arborists, landscape architects and site managers in the care and management of veteran trees. She was project manager for the EU projects VETree and VETcert.
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Location: Alingsås Mobile: 070 – 345 16 44 E-mail: vikki.bengtsson@pro-natura.net

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Lars Söderström

Lars Söderström

During his career, Lasse has worked with education from pre-school to sixth-form college and as a nature educator for Jönköping municipality (Ekobussen). Lasse has primarily worked with surveying insects including beetles in the Öster Vätterbranterna Landscape. His speciality is wood-living beetles.
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Location: Jönköping Mobile: 070 – 479 43 33 E-mail: backafall.sm@gmail.com
Olof Persson

Olof Persson

Trained nature conservation biologist and species specialist who primarily works with surveys of different organism groups and habitats. His main focus is on insects and in particular wood-living beetles and butterflies. Olof also has good knowledge of birds. Has undertaken natural conservation assessments based on several organism groups, including vascular plants, lichens, and mosses. Also works with GIS.
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Location: Kalmar Mobile: 073 – 391 24 99 E-mail: olof.persson@pro-natura.net
Oskar Gran

Oskar Gran

Researcher with a focus on wood-living beetles. He has also worked with nature conservation surveys. Oskar has his speciality in the survey and identification of beetles, as well as ecological statistical analyses using GIS, R, and other software.
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Location: Göteborg Mobile: 070 – 070 85 78 E-mail: oskargran@gmail.com
Sten Svantesson

Sten Svantesson

Researcher in fungal taxonomy, nature conservation biologist and one of Sweden’s leading experts on wood-living fungi. Sten is also knowledgeable in vascular plants, mosses, and lichens. Works primarily with fungi survey, but on a project basis also with targeted surveys of other species groups and Biodiversity Assessments (NVI) according to the Swedish Standard.
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Location: Uppsala Mobile: 070 – 309 55 88 E-mail: sten.svantesson@gmail.com
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