We seek a postdoc in the FUNDER project, which will assess and disentangle the direct effects of climate from the indirect effects, mediated through biotic interactions, on the diversity and whole-ecosystem functioning of the plant−soil food web. To achieve this, we use a powerful macroecological experimental approach to quantify the impacts of v...
Background Nematodes are omnipresent in almost every ecosystem, even under harsh environmental conditions, and play important roles in soil processes, contributing to the provision of key ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling (Mekonen, Petros, and Hailemariam 2017). Nematodes alone are responsible for 2,2% of global carbon emission from the s...
Background Alpine grasslands are vulnerable to climate change, and are currently changing rapidly in both plant functional group dominance (Engemann et al. 2016) and species distributions (Kelly and Goulden 2008). These biotic shifts contribute to indirect effect of climate change through influencing biotic interactions (Vandvik et al. 2020). Bryop...
Background Alpine grasslands are vulnerable to climate change, and are currently changing rapidly in both plant functional group dominance (1) and species distributions (2). These biotic shifts contribute to indirect effect of climate change through influencing biotic interactions (3,4). Indeed, research is still needed on the effect of climate on ...
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) an...