Two members of our lab co-authored a recently published paper in Nature entitled “Environmental drivers of increased ecosystem respiration in a warming tundra” Inga Svala and Ingvild contributed to an international effort along with 74 other scientists, synthesizing ecosystem respiration in response to experimental warming across multiple tundra sites and analyzing the drivers of increase….
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The Tundra Ecology Lab at VistÍs conference!
Several members of the lab were present at the Icelandic Ecological Society Meeting in Reykjavík this 5th of April! The Icelandic Ecological Society meeting was hosted in Askja this 5th of April Two members presented oral presentations, Bastien during the first session “Biodiversity and Conservation” and Mathilde during the “Terrestrial Ecology” session! We also had…
As good things come in pairs…
Our PhD students Ingvild and Mathilde successfully received funding from Rannís for an extension of their PhD studies! All the successful applicants at the Rannís celebration event hosted last Friday This will allow them to have funding for one more year in order to be able to finish the PhD duties. Congratulations to you both…
Starting the year off right!
Our PhD student Ingvild Ryde presented this Friday her mid-way evaluation during the Friday Seminar here in Askja Building, Reykjavik. Ingvild presented her work with a presentation entitled “Occupied territory? Allelopathic effects of Empetrum nigrum and its role in preventing the recovery of Icelandic ecosystems trapped in degraded states” in front of dozens of students,…
Participation in UNFCC 28th Conference of the Parties, COP28
Ingibjörg Svala participated in the Icelandic delegation at UNFCC COP28 in December 2023, representing the University of Iceland. She took part in a side event on Nature based Solutions for climate mitigation in the Nordic Pavilion as a panelist. image/Andreas Omvik You can find the article on the University of Iceland News page here
Introducing long-term ITEX data at AGU23
Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir was an Invited Author in the oral session NG13A: Extreme Variability and Complexity: Bridging Theories and Data-Driven Approaches Across Scales, from Urban Geosciences to the Geospace, at 23rd Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU23). The title of her talk was „Variable and Complex Responses of Tundra Vegetation to Climate Change”. On…
New paper on soil seed banks in Icelandic rangelands
Abdubakir Kushbokov‘s study on the effects of grazing exclusion in the Icelandic rangelands has now been published in the journal Icelandic Agricultural Sciences.
Forestry is not always taken for granted as a climate action.
An article in Icelandic by Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir, published in the Icelandic online media Heimilidin.is The full text article (in Icelandic) can be found here
Alejandro and his students summer summary!
A new busy summer for Alejo and his team, as he co-supervised the projects of two GRÓ-LRT fellows: Ben Amoha (with the blue jacket in the picture below), who monitored CO2 and CH4 fluxes in a previously eroded site where biocrust and vegetation have been growing after the application of fertilizers by the Soil conservation…
Ian and Axel’s field season summer summary!
This summer, Ian and Axel recorded net ecosystem exchange measurements using a static, non-steady state chamber method. Measurements took place in plots subjected to sheep removal for 2 periods of time, short-term (7-years) and long-term (27-years). These data will provide important context regarding the legacy of sheep grazing in these ecosystems and how it impacts…