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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#fluxible update! 🚨 New flux calculation pathway: Transforming gas concentration in volumetric units before modeling #gasfluxes accounts better for changes in temperature inside the #fluxchamber. @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no @li-corenv.bsky.social #rstats #carbonflux #CO2

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Transforming gas concentration in volumetric units before modelling the fluxes

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

So exciting to see our students attending their first conference and doing a fantastic job! Read Anna's blog: betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/attending-eg...

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

We got to finish a fantastic week at #IAVS2026 with a great talk by @audhalbritter.bsky.social presenting the first comprehensive overview of 7 iterations of #PFTC data. Full room, even for the very last talk of the day 💪 Thanks for having us, Gijón! #plantfunctionaltraitscourses

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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Such a cool project to be part of! Super exciting! @audhalbritter.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no @unibergen.bsky.social

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Peter Farsund @pgfarsund.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Day 2 of #gsb2026 was a blast - so many people doing interesting things! Proud to represent @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social and present preliminary results from FUNDER betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/funder/ at such a cool conference! (thanks for snapping the pic @paulkardol.bsky.social!)

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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🚨 #EGU26 poster alert! "Afromontane Grassland Carbon Dynamics in a Changing World" 👩‍🎓 @anna-dam.bsky.social 🚩 X1.61 🕰️ Wednesday May 6th 08:30-10:15 #ecosystem #carbonflux #CO2 @unibergen.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no @li-corenv.bsky.social @egu.eu @egubg.bsky.social

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

🌍Come work with us! We are hiring a postdoc in Climate Change Ecology. In this position, you will work on Climate Change synthesis research, and assist the upcoming IPCC report (CH14: impacts on terrestrial, freshwater and cryosphere) 🌿🐸❄️ Deadline: 8 March More information: tinyurl.com/2c83uakz

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow within Climate Change Ecology  (295093) | University of Bergen

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow within Climate Change Ecology  (295093), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, March 8, 2026

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CeSAM @cesam-uib.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Norge trenger mer kraft – hvordan kan vi få det til på en naturvennlig måte? Lær mer gjennom klare presentasjoner og en engasjert debatt mellom @vvandvik.bsky.social, @bardvegar.bsky.social ogTerje Aasland (AP), organisert av Verdens Naturfond / WWF Norge www.youtube.com/watch?v=mox9...

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Kim L. Holzmann @kimholzmann.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Fieldwork in the #Drakensberg mountains in South Africa with @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social. While learning a lot about #ecosystemgasfluxes, I have been exploring the potential for an exciting future #insect project along the gradient. @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

😍Congratulations @vvandvik.bsky.social with the Bonnevieprisen 2025! ✨ 'The winner of the prize has in the last 5 years established as a prominent voice in the Nature Crisis debate, both nationally and internationally'. #bonnevieprisen #naturecrisis #outreach www.bio.no/2025-vigdis-...

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Bjerknes Center for Climate Research (BCCR) @bjerknes.uib.no · 17/11/2025

Ecosystem gas fluxes are crucial to water and energy cycling. Fluxes are measured in closed-loop chambers. But how do you deal with the data? An R package by @jogaudard.bsky.social from @unibergen.bsky.social and Bjerknes simplifies processing and comparison. Check it out! 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

We believe in learning by doing real research - an important driver for us to host many interns every year. Curious what that can look like? Read Vendula's blogpost! Also: we are currently looking for interns in the upcoming seasons. Interested? Apply! 📃 betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/intern-blog-...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

📖Published📖 The fluxible #rstats package provides tools to process #ecosystem gas fluxes in a fully #reproducible workflow, while offering full flexibility to the user 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/dSpRkOe

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

@hanifkawousi.bsky.social, PhD student in the ECOBUDGETS project, spent this summer registering (plant)biodiversity and carbon storage in #Bergen. How that looked? What is he finding? Read about it here! www.bt.no/btmagasinet/...

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Han sjekker naturen i Bergen

Det har gitt noen overraskelser.

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

🌄🌿Come work with us! We are #hiring a #PhDcandidate in global change ecology to become part of our brand-new Centre for Mountains in Transitions. Apply here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... For an overview of all available positions, see: cmt.w.uib.no/open-positio... @vvandvik.bsky.social

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PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD Research Fellow in global change ecology (285493), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

🫐🍂 New blog about our DURIN adventures is up! Read all about what our dwarf shrub team got up to during the autumn sampling campaign here: betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/fieldwork-du...

Mika Kirkhus taking soil and root samples for fungal belowground analysis.

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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

fluxible R package CRAN update (v1.3.0): new functions, vignette for tent setup, various fixes, and a logo! 1/4 #rstats #ecosystemgasfluxes #carbonfluxes @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @hilaryrosed.bsky.social @jonastrepel.bsky.social @martabaumane.bsky.social @kristabirk.bsky.social

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Also, our MSc student Elias wrote a blog post about his #fieldwork experience this summer! 🫐🧪🌐🏔️https://betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/fieldwork-blog-my-trip-around-norway/

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Fieldwork blog: My trip around Norway – Between the Fjords

Picture from front left to right: Kristine Birkeli, Viljar Storvik, Vendula Spackova, Elias Skaslien

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Our own Vigdis Vandvik will be Coordinating Lead Author on the upcoming seventh #IPCC report, co-leading the chapter on climate change, #biodiversity, #ecosystems and ecosystem services on land and in freshwater. A big, challenging, and very exciting task! @vvandvik.bsky.social shorturl.at/07NJf

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Temperature and Precipitation Jointly Shape the Plant Microbiome by Regulating the Start of the Growing Season 🔗 buff.ly/zDJrYrq @dina-intzandt.bsky.social @ibotcz.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @vvandvik.bsky.social

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CeSAM @cesam-uib.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Paradisets Bakside / On the Flip Side of Paradise: How our gardens are linked to the Anthopocene. An amazing documentary informed by @unibergen.bsky.social project 'Gardening the Globe'! www.uib.no/en/cesam/178...

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On the Flip Side of Paradise

How is your garden related to the Anthropocene? This rather large question is the be starting point for the documentary “Paradisets bakside”, now available with both Norwegian and English subtitles on...

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Hanif Kawousi @hanifkawousi.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

The great advantage of having QGIS take care of creating randomly distributed sites for fieldwork. don’t think I could have picked a better spot myself to investigate the crossover from human made construction and nature! #Ecobudgets @uibcet.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social

In the perfect cross section between anthropogenic constructions and nature, we mapped the vegetation. One of the more unique compositions of species so far in #Ecobudgets.

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

First round of germination recordings, and @nadi-mi-ar.bsky.social & MSc Silje Steine @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social and I were thrilled (& a bit relieved) to find hundreds of seedlings. Out experiment works! #ITEX #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The #DURIN #fieldseson is ramping up - we are collecting plant growth, biodiversity, biomass, soil, and thermal tolerance data from #dwarfshrubs across gradients to understand their responses and ecosystem roles under a changing #climate. @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social 🍃🏔️🌐🧪🪏📏

Two scientists in heavy-duty raingear, smiling, sitting amongst blueberry plants with a lot of sampling gear and data sheets. Fieldwork!

A person looking up at us over some blueberry bushes - smiling, wearing a moskito net

A student analysing a vegetation plot for bryophyte biodiversity. Surrounded by forest. His pro tip: laminated cards with samples of the most common species and their characteristic traits to help him keep on top of the ID-ing during long and sometimes wet field days.

Two scientists in the lab preparing samples fir thermal tolerance measurements.

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Reminding people that we are always open for new collaborations in our field sites and set-ups! For more information, check out our website 😊 betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/collaboration/ #researchfunding #mariecuriefellowship

The photo shows two scientists in a forest bent over a metal frame, working on a vegetation inventory.

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

In new project 'Ecobudgets' @hanifkawousi.bsky.social maps the biodiversity in Bergen municipality. We inventory in random spots, today high up on the hills over Svartediket. Great day being out with @vvandvik.bsky.social & @dagmaregelkraut.bsky.social! @uibcet.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social

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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

#phd thesis at @unibergen.bsky.social have to include a table with co authors of included articles, contributions and affiliations. Here is a @github.com template to do this in #quarto, using the Plume R package and multibib filter. @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no #rstats #phdLife

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GitHub - jogaudard/phdthesis_toolbox: Some technical tricks to write a PhD thesis in Quarto

Some technical tricks to write a PhD thesis in Quarto - jogaudard/phdthesis_toolbox

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

New project! @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social to map biodiversity and ecosystems in #Bergen. Very first randomly located plot in Hanif Kawousi’s #PhD is in Nygårdsparken! @uibcet.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social #EcoBudgets #DarkDiv #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪

#Fieldworkselfie - four scientists and a vegetation plot, demarcated by a mental frame. This plot is part of a random sample of 200 sick plots in Bergen Municipality. And this particular one ended up on a roadside in Nygårdsparken!

First day of field work! PhD student Hanif Kawousi starting his field work by sampliing a vegetation plot in an urban park. In this picture he is standing, smiling, with a tablet and weseing a yellow rainjacket and a blue hat. In the background, a water fountain… that’s urban ecology for you!

PhD student Hanif Kawousi and lab manager Dagmar Egelkraut eagerly messuring traits of plants …. sitting on a lawn in a park roadside curb,…

PhD student Hanif Kawousi talking to a passer-by on a paved park path. When doing urban ecology, remember to factir in some time talking to strangers :-) …for this plot alone, we had 8 people ask questions… #outreach

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Update! @nadi-mi-ar.bsky.social & MSc Silje Steine @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social have now set up plots & OTCs, prepared and sowed seeds of 8 lowland species into the alpine, with/without warming & neighbours. Excited to see results over the summer!! #ITEX #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪

Open top chambers (OTCs) are small glasshouses without roofs that are extensively used in climate change research to warm Arctic and alpine vegetation to experimentally assess climate change impacts. In this picture we see a bunch of them newly set up in a mountain grassland

An Open Top Chamber (OTC( in a grassland, seen from above, with some plots inside. The plots are 50% vegetarion, 50% bare soil.

OTCs are small glasshouses without roofs that are extensively used in climate change research to warm Arctic and alpine vegetation to experimentally Assessment climate change impacts.

Msc student Silje Steine has her ducks in a row! 😉. She is sitting at a table sorting many many little bags into neat stacks, in a candle-lit mountain cabin. The bags contain seeds to be sown as part of a field experiment.

MSc Student Silje Steine sitting in a meadow, bent over a vegetation plot, sowing some seeds. Lots of bags, equipment, recording sheets in the foreground.

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

#FieldSeason update! The #DURIN project keeps @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social busy - this year we’ll be doing vegetation analyses & with @nibiolandskap.bsky.social #NINA and #NMBU we’be been out to prepare and discuss protocols. @droughtnet.bsky.social #ProudSupervisor #ProfLife #PhDLife 🍃🏔️🌐🌍🪏📏🧪

A group of scientists sitting around a metal vegetation plot in a heathland - discussing protocols.

MSc student Viljar Storhaug in the field, looking through a hsnd-lens at a bryophyte he is learning to identify. Two supervisors, Mari Jokerud and Vigdis Vandvik, looking at him, smiling, a drought experiment in the background

Attila Nemes from NMBU sitting in the field, demonstrativt soil water measurement equipment

Researcher Liv Guri Velle with a vegetation plot

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Prof. Vigdis Vandvik @vvandvik.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The plots will indeed fit comfortably! #fieldseason #protip: try out new experimental setups in the office before heading out, to avoid unnecessary hiccups in the field! #ProfLife #PhD 🍃🌐🏔️🪏📏@dagmaregelkraut.bsky.social @nadi-mi-ar.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social

Two happy scientists, an open top chamber with three mock ‘plots’ made of paper, a meter stick, and a lot of general fieldwork mess in a university hallway

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This spring's Student Poster Symposium at the Faculty of Science and Technology was a great success! It is so inspiring to see the great work students do, and have them gain experience in science outreach and communication. @unibergen.bsky.social Read more: www.uib.no/nt/178184/pr...

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Prisvinnende læringsarena vokser videre

Torsdag 15. mai ble Student Poster Symposium arrangert for 13. gang – denne gangen med rekordmange deltakende emner og en tydelig ambisjon om videre vekst.

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Why being outside helps us learn better: a walk in the forest and excellent talk by @ragnhildgya.bsky.social at @pintsworld.bsky.social 🌿👩‍🏫

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

New to visiting #conferences? Unsure how to best approach networking or getting the most out of the busy schedule? @jogaudard.bsky.social developed a Toolbox for ECRs going to big conferences 🤓 Read more here: tinyurl.com/58yft5jn And find the toolbox on GitHub here: github.com/jogaudard/ec...

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GitHub - jogaudard/ecr_toolbox

Contribute to jogaudard/ecr_toolbox development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

We want our students to experience life as researchers as much as possible. This spring, 3 of our students joined to the Norwegian #Oikos #conference and got to present their work! Read about Elias' experience: betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/conference-b... @nordicoikos.bsky.social #sciencecommuncation

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Conference blog: My trip to Oikos Bodø (a student perspective) – Between the Fjords

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Jonathan von Oppen @jvonoppen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The emotional toll of fieldwork: field #ecologists can relate, too. And yet, ecological change often happens gradually, and changing plant communities are not existentially desperate. My highest respect for all who study human consequences of #ClimateChange, this is a crucial insight. rdcu.be/elSTz

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The emotional toll of fieldwork

Nature Climate Change - The emotional toll of fieldwork

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The licoread #rpackage helps you import raw #Licor datafiles into #R, and is now on #CRAN. Conveniently it seemlessly works together with the #fluxible package to calculate your fluxes. @jogaudard.bsky.social is on a roll! #rstats #li-cor

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audhalbritter.bsky.social @audhalbritter.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Our article on "Marine-derived nutrients shape the functional composition of High Arctic plant communities" is finally out 🐧🦆🌱🌾💩🌊🏔️: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Marine‐derived nutrients shape the functional composition of High Arctic plant communities

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Western Norway is known as rainy, but droughts happen and will be more extreme and frequent due to climate change. @kristabirk.bsky.social shared her results at #EGU25 about a drought experiment in a coastal heathland, and the effects on leaf and flower phenology at different successional stages

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Kristine Birkeli @kristabirk.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

@sonyageange.bsky.social presenting the importance of scale when trying to understand the thermal tolerance limits in dwarf-shrubs 🫐 #EGU25 #DURIN

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Kristine Birkeli @kristabirk.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Amazing talk by @jogaudard.bsky.social at #EGU25 about his #Fluxible R package! A great tool for processing large amounts of ecosystem flux data in an #OpenScience way 🌿🌀 @egu.eu @egubg.bsky.social

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Joseph Gaudard @jogaudard.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Looking for an R based solution to process ecosystem gas fluxes data from closed loop chamber systems? Come to my #EGU25 talk! 🗓️2025-04-30 ⌚11:50 📍2.95 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-... #rstats #OpenScience

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

We are at #EGU2025! Interested to learn more about global experimental #warming experiments, the #functioning of dwarf shrubs in our ecosystems, or how we develop tools to help us better analyze gas #flux data in #R? Here’s an overview of our talks and poster presentations🧵: #EGU25 #DURIN #ITEX

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Between the Fjords Research Group @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

We contributed to this article in Nature, showing how a warming climate might shift the tundra environment from a carbon sink to a carbon source. Co-authors @jogaudard.bsky.social (carbon fluxes), @ragnhildgya.bsky.social (plants and traits), & @vvandvik.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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