Vigdis Vandvik to be Coordinating Lead Author on next IPCC report

After her role as coordinating lead author for the IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment,  Vigdis Vandvik will now contribute to the upcoming seventh IPCC report and be co-responsible for a chapter on how climate change affects biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem services on land and in freshwater. The Coordinating Lead Authorship will be shared with Denis J. READ MORE

Fieldwork blog: My trip around Norway

Picture from front left to right: Kristine Birkeli, Viljar Storvik, Vendula Spackova, Elias Skaslien Hi! I’m Elias Eide Skaslien, and I am a master’s student in Between the Fjords. For my master’s project I have been travelling with Kristine Birkeli and Durin around Norway to investigate diurnal fluxes in different macro- and microclimates in Norwegian READ MORE

NatuRA

 Mountain grassland ecosystems are vital for a variety of essential functions and services. They provide grazing land for wildlife and livestock, clean water, carbon storage, and support traditional ways of life. Globally, mountains have historically been managed under similar environmental constraints, often as communal rangelands. These regions, inhabited by indigenous and local communities, have relied READ MORE

Research on sustainable climate and nature governance funded

We recently received funding from the Norwegian Research Council for new project ECOBUDGETS! This collaborative project brings together expertise on land use governance and climate budgets from UiB, NIBIO, NINA, City of Bergen and Vestland County Council, and will explore ways to integrate climate and nature budgets into administrative and political decisions at the municipal READ MORE

Research is not done in a flash in the best of times. Fieldwork, data analyzes and writing take time. But this time it took over ten years, two doctorates and one baby to get there. We have just published a new article in the scientific journal Ecography. The article describes how grass and grass-like species, READ MORE

Tundra might turn from carbon sink into carbon source due to global warming

Tundra ecosystems hold vast amounts of carbon, which is projected to be released into the atmosphere under climate warming. Our group contributed to this important and alarming new paper in Nature, led by researchers from Umeå University in Sweden. Using carbon flux data collected inside and outside open-top chambers (OTCs), we show that ecosystem respiration READ MORE