The Tundra Ecology Lab is hosted jointly at the University of Iceland and the Agricultural University of Iceland by Professors’ Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir, Isabel C Barrio and Alejandro Salazar-Villegas. Our team works on ecosystem processes in tundra environments with a special emphasis on the impact of herbivores, climate and land use changes on plant communities in Iceland and elsewhere.
Latest news
- Welcome Bastien!
Bastien is a new PhD student coming to us from France. His project will focus on uncovering the mysterious nature of bryophyte ecology in Iceland. Welcome! - Sumjee’s first PhD paper published!
The first paper of Sumjee’s PhD has just been accepted in the Journal of Arid Environments. The paper, titled: “Rangeland degradation in Mongolia: A systematic review of the evidence” reviews literature on rangeland degradation in Mongolia, with a special focus on the grey literature. The study shows that rangeland degradation has become an increasing environmental… - Congratulations Dr. Klarenberg!
Last Friday Ingeborg defended her PhD thesis at the University of Iceland. The title of her dissertation is: Bacterial communities of lichens and mosses and nitrogen fixation in a warming climate. Congratulations dr Klarenberg! The opponents were Dr. James Bradley, Queen Mary University of London, and Dr. Pauline Vannier, Research scientist at Matís. They did… - TUNDRAsalad in the news!
The TUNDRAsalad project was featured in the local news in Austurfrétt [in Icelandic]! TUNDRAsalad recently received permission for building up the fences for the coordinated experiment in Vesturöræfi, in East Iceland, from the local authorities in Múlaþing. - Welcome and congratulations Ian!
The Tundra Ecology Lab welcomes its newest member, Ian Klupar, who has arrived now in Iceland all the way from Alaska to do his PhD. Ian received very good news this week about the funding of his PhD project, titled “Alternative stable states of degraded rangeland ecosystems in a warmer world” by the PhD funds…