Project background As both native and exotic species shift their distributions in response to climate warming and through biological invasions, many expand their ranges across elevational gradients. This expansion results in the reassembly of ecological communities, which meditates the effects of climate warming on biodiversity and key ecosystem functions. RangeX is a multidisciplinary, replicated field READ MORE
Two positions available in new FUNDER project
FUNDER got funded! We are excited to start exploring the Direct and indirect climate impacts on the biodiversity and Functioning of the UNDERground ecosystem this spring. To that end, we are now recruiting a PhD and a Postdoctoral research fellow. The PhD position focuses on the roles of alpine soil mesofauna (nematodes, micro-arthropods) and READ MORE
Measuring carbon fluxes on asphalt?
By Joseph Gaudard We were getting some strange looks while measuring ecosystem carbon fluxes on… the parking lot of the university. And for a reason: what would one expect to respire on clean asphalt? Nothing or almost. So what was I doing here, with my whole setup and four students? Well, the most important thing READ MORE
Journeys to the North: We were featured in an ARTE documentary
Just over a year ago, we had the honor to host a camera team of the fantastic French/German tv-channel ARTE, where we were part of a documentary series ‘Journeys to the North‘ (Voyages en terres du Nord) about the wonders of Scandinavia. This episode about Norway features lots of interesting lessons about READ MORE
New SeedClim paper out in PNAS
Studying climate change through a plant’s perspective It is finally here! In our recently published paper ‘Biotic rescaling reveals importance of species interactions for variation in biodiversity responses to climate change‘ in PNAS, we present important findings from the ongoing SeedClim project. Understanding climate-induced changes in biodiversity is complex, especially when different studies report varying rates, READ MORE
Data cleaning – finding the problems with turfmapper
All large data sets have problems. The community data gathered in the Between the Fjords projects are no exception – there are inevitable spelling mistakes, synonyms, misidentifications (for example of sterile Carex). Fortunately, having community data from several years, we can compare the community over time to identify and then fix these sorts of problems. READ MORE
Decomposition in alpine grasslands
Our paper on decomposition processes in Norwegian alpine grasslands is just published online in Ecosystems :D. Go check it out! Long-Term Climate Regime Modulates the Impact of Short-Term Climate Variability on decomposition in Alpine Grassland Soils http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-018-0241-5
FunCaB has a logo!
A picture speaks a thousand words. They’re great ways to communicate and summarise a lot of information in a very compact format. They’re also great for making links and associations. This is why we use logos, right? I had a go building a logo for the funcab project, which (hopefully!) distills the main aims of READ MORE
LandPress on radio!
This spring we brought EKKO-journalist Ivar Grydeland to Lygra. The trip resulted in two reportages on the radio program EKKO on P2. Click on the links below to hear about prescribed burning and the old Norse sheep (in Norwegian). Prescribed burning on Lygra: https://radio.nrk.no/serie/ekko/mdsp25009217/09-05-2017#t=1h8m50s The old Norse sheep: https://radio.nrk.no/serie/ekko/mdsp25006117/27-03-2017#t=59m33s Vigdis is explaining the processes above READ MORE
Singin’ in the rain
This week feels like proper Norwegian fieldwork again. Rain drips off your nose, water runs up your sleeves, and data sheets are hung up to dry like washing in the evenings. Nonetheless, we are over halfway now in terms of vegetation composition analysis (check out the map below!), and by the end of the week READ MORE