Aleksandra (Sasha) Kosanic

University of Konstanz, Germany

Biography

Aleksandra (Sasha) Kosanic finished her PhD at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom). Her PhD research focused on the use of climatic and vegetation historical records in order to investigate climate change at the local/regional scales (West Cornwall) and to analyze its impact on vegetation. She is a physical geographer interested in interdisciplinary studies and in how anthropogenic drivers (i.e. climate and land use change) affect the changes in geographical distribution of vegetation. Her current research is focused on the effects of climate and land-use change on a distribution of non-native invasive plants in Germany. She is also interested in non-native invasive plants impact on the provisioning of ecosystem services and regional identity.