Community dynamics in a rapidly warming high Arctic: trophic synchrony in time and space (INSYNC)

Community dynamics in a rapidly warming high Arctic: trophic synchrony in time and space (INSYNC)

 

The INSYNC project - financed by the Research Council Norway (FRIPRO) for 2018-21 - aims to explore how patterns of community dynamics in time and space are driven by direct versus indirect effects of climate (change). To achieve this, we will combine stochastic demographic modelling, experimental approaches and analyses of timeseries data across species and trophic levels in the Svalbard tundra ecosystem.

 

 

Publications

Publications

Video clip Lee et al. (2015, Oikos)

Video clip Lee et al. (2015, Oikos)

Video clip reindeer capture

Video clip reindeer capture

Video clip icing event

Video clip icing event

Video clip icing experiment on Cassiope tetragona

Video clip icing experiment on Cassiope tetragona

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MSc/PhD projects

MSc/PhD projects

  • Laura Bartra Cabre (current) Community dynamics under extreme climatic events. PhD NTNU
  • Mikael Sætre (current) Barnacle geese population dynamics under future climate change. MSc NTNU.
  • Iselin Helløy (current) Effects of experimental icing events on shrub energy allocation trade-offs. MSc NTNU
  • Halvor Røssum (current) Effects of experimental icing and thaw-freeze events on arctic plant communities. MSc NTNU
  • Jann Detampel (2021) Effects of experimental icing and thaw-freeze events on Bistorta vivipara. MSc UNIS
  • Kay Banu Lenz (current) Relative impacts of climate change and trophic interactions on snow bunting reproduction. MSc NTNU
  • Simen Karlsen (current) Spatial population synchrony under climate change. MSc NTNU
  • Peeters B (2020) Eco-evolutionary implications of climate-harvest interactions in a high Arctic ungulate. PhD NTNU
  • Maria Gravelsæther (2021) Effects of arthropod abundance on snow bunting reproduction. MSc NTNU
  • Kjerstin Hilmarsen (2020) Body mass growth in snow bunting nestlings as response to variation in arthropod abundance. MSc NTNU
  • Le Moullec M (2019) Spatiotemporal variation in abundance of key tundra species: from local heterogeneity to large-scale synchrony. PhD NTNU
  • Layton-Matthews K (current) Population dynamics of high Arctic barnacle geese. PhD NTNU
  • Burnett H (current) Population-genetic impacts of Svalbard reindeer reintroduction programs. MSc NTNU
  • Valøen K (current) Experimental effects of soil and moss moisture on NDVI in the high Arctic. MSc NTNU
  • Fjelldal MA (2019) Climate-density effects on age of first reproduction in barnacle geese. MSc NTNU
  • Lillehaug E (current) Effects of climate and predations on snow bunting reproduction. MSc NTNU
  • Røed SB (2018) Detection of trace elements in Svalbard reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) faeces. MSc NTNU
  • Sandal L (2017) The Moran effect in a changing high Arctic climate: spatial synchrony in Salix polaris tree-ring growth. MSc NTNU
  • Hovdal SB (2017) Phenological effects of climate change on high Arctic vegetation: an experimental approach. MSc NTNU
  • Haraldsen HK (2017) Experimental summer and winter warming effects on high Arctic graminoids. MSc NTNU
  • Grotheim, M (2017) Disentangling effects of summer warming and winter icing on high Arctic tundra plants: an experiment. MSc NTNU