Charlie C. Nicholson

Charlie Nicholson is a community and landscape ecologist seeking to understand 1) how biodiverse communities provide ecosystem services and 2) how these species and services are affected by the way we manage and use land. To do this, he combines field-based experiments with economic valuations, ecological models, and theory to unpack the tradeoffs that characterize complex socio-ecological systems.

He earned a PhD with Taylor Ricketts at the University of Vermont where he investigated how agricultural landscapes and management affect ecosystem services and agricultural yields. He followed this with postdoctoral work with Neal Williams at the University of California Davis and with Maj Rundlöf at Lund University. He is now a researcher at Lund University working on pollination ecology, landscape ecotoxicology and ecological modeling in agricultural landscapes. Together with Jessica Knapp, he is part of a team that aims to develop pesticide risk assessment for bees at landscape scales.