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
Category: Research
Field season 2025: it’s (almost) a wrap!
Whilst most of Norway calms down when the summer approaches; in our discipline of field ecology the months of June, July and August are the highlight of the action. This summer has seen yet again a great amount of project planning, data collection, identifying sedges without flowers, cooking leaves, and hiking across Bergen municipality. For project 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
A Tool Box for Early Career Researchers going to big conferences
By Joseph Gaudard The European Geosciences Union Annual Meeting is a major conference in natural science, and a good place to present “almost finished work”. It is also a terrifying event, with about 20’000 participants on site. In 2024, I was a first time attendee going there alone. It was a lonely week of READ MORE
Conference blog: My trip to Oikos Bodø (a student perspective)
Hi! I’m Elias Eide Skaslien, and I am a master’s student in Between the Fjords. For my master project I will be working with Kristine Birkeli and Durin to investigate diurnal fluxes across different macro- and microclimates in Norwegian heathlands. Earlier this spring (April 9th–12th), I had the opportunity to attend the Oikos conference in READ MORE
New collaboration in Durin project: meet Sarah Schwieger
Sarah Schwieger from Umeå University (Sweden) recently received funding for a project in collaboration with Durin. We are excited to have her on the team and look forward to adding valuable insights on belowground processes to the project! Read further to learn more about her and her research plans: I am Sarah Schwieger, a 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