Her primary research field is biodiversity, conservation in agricultural landscapes, and effects of management and land use change at large spatial and temporal scales. She has scientific experiences in several different ecological fields and has used an array of different ecological methods, from field investigations and experiments to different modelling techniques, such as GIS (Arcview), and spatial landscape modelling.

Much of her scientific work is done in transdisciplinary collaboration with scientists from a variety of disciplines, e.g., economists, human and physical geographers. She is currently involved in several projects addressing proactive management for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in Sweden, Portugal and South Africa, where she study bundles of ecosystem services as a tool for managing multifunctional landscapes. In these landscapes she also studies the role of life history traits and functional diversity for better understanding of ecosystem processes through time and space.

Dr. Lindborg has an extensive national and international scientific network and is currently involved in the Mistral programme “Hagmarksmistra" and the EU-project Coconut, where she is a PI for Stockholm University. She has collaborative links with a number of Universities and Institutions in Sweden, e.g. Swedish Biodiversity Centre (CBM), SLU, Lund University, SYKE (FINLAND), Göttingen (Germany), Tartu University (Estonia), Durban University (SouthAfrica).

She is a board member at Journal of Applied vegetation Science (JAVS) and has publications in high ranked scientific journals like Ecology, Conservation Biology and Journal of Ecology.