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Katrin Björnsdottir
Doctoral Student
Department of Biological & Environmental SciencesAbout Katrin Björnsdottir
I am a PhD student within the EDGE lab group (edge-ecology.com) at the University of Gothenburg. My research is focused on how Arctic terrestrial ecosystems respond to environmental changes. In my work, I focus on plant communities, plant-soil interactions, and ecosystem carbon cycling processes. I am passionate about learning more about how our planet responds to the changing environmental conditions in a warming world and for that, in my opinion, the Arctic is the perfect place to work in. My work revolves around field work in extreme Arctic environments, where I spend my summers in Svalbard, Greenland, or northern Sweden, measuring plant functional traits, plant community composition, decomposition of plant material, and ecosystem carbon fluxes. During my PhD, I will combine data from field experiments as well as use big datasets within several networks to answer questions like - How does climate warming influence decomposition? Can we predict decomposition with plant functional traits? How will Arctic plant species cope with climate warming? And finally, what is the relative importance of plant traits and microclimate in driving the Arctic carbon balance?
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Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and
stabilization
Judith M. Sarneel, Mariet M. Hefting, Taru Sanden, Johan van den Hoogen, Devin Routh, Bhupendra S. Adhikari, Juha M. Alatalo, Alla Aleksanyan, Inge H. J. Althuizen, Mohammed H. S. A. Alsafran, Jeff W. Atkins, Laurent Augusto, Mika Aurela, Aleksej V. Azarov, Isabel C. Barrio, Claus Beier, Maria D. Bejarano, Sue E. Benham, Bjorn Berg, Nadezhda V. Bezler, Katrin Björnsdottir, Martin A. Bolinder, Michele Carbognani, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Stefano Chelli, Maxim V. Chistotin, Casper T. Christiansen, Pascal Courtois, Thomas W. Crowther, Michele S. Dechoum, Ika Djukic, Sarah Duddigan, Louise M. Egerton-Warburton, Nicolas Fanin, Maria Fantappie, Silvano Fares, Geraldo W. Fernandes, Nina V. Filippova, Andreas Fliessbach, David Fuentes, Roberto Godoy, Thomas Gruenwald, Gema Guzman, Joseph E. Hawes, Yue He, Jean-Marc Hero, Laura L. Hess, Katja Hogendoorn, Toke T. Hoye, Wilma W. P. Jans, Ingibjoerg S. Jonsdottir, Sabina Keller, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Natalya N. Kuz'menko, Klaus S. Larsen, Hjalmar Laudon, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Junhui Li, Jean-Marc Limousin, Sergey M. Lukin, Renato Marques, Cesar Marin, Marshall D. McDaniel, Qi Meek, Genrietta E. Merzlaya, Anders Michelsen, Leonardo Montagnani, Peter Mueller, Rajasekaran Murugan, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Stefanie Nolte, Raul Ochoa-Hueso, Bernard N. Okafor, Vladimir V. Okorkov, Vladimir G. Onipchenko, Maria C. Orozco, Tina Parkhurst, Carlos A. Peres, Matteo Petit Bon, Alessandro Petraglia, Martin Pingel, Corinna Rebmann, Brett R. Scheffers, Inger Schmidt, Mary C. Scholes, Efrat Sheffer, Lyudmila K. Shevtsova, Stuart W. Smith, Adriano Sofo, Pablo R. Stevenson, Barbora Strouhalova, Anders Sundsdal, Rafael B. Suehs, Gebretsadik Tamene, Haydn J. D. Thomas, Duygu Tolunay, Marcello Tomaselli, Simon Tresch, Dominique L. Tucker, Michael D. Ulyshen, Alejandro Valdecantos, Vigdis Vandvik, Elena I. Vanguelova, Kris Verheyen, Xuhui Wang, Laura Yahdjian, Xaris S. Yumashev, Joost A. Keuskamp
ECOLOGY LETTERS - 2024 -
Herbivore diversity effects on Arctic tundra ecosystems: a systematic
review
Laura Barbero-Palacios, Isabel C. Barrio, Mariana Garcia Criado, Ilona Kater, Matteo Petit Bon, Tiina H. M. Kolari, Ragnhild Bjorkas, Jonas Trepel, Erick Lundgren, Katrin Björnsdottir, Bernice C. Hwang, Laura Bartra-Cabre, Mathilde Defourneaux, Jennifer Ramsay, Thomas K. Lameris, A. Joshua Leffler, Janine G. Lock, Mari S. Kuoppamaa, Jeppe A. Kristensen, Anne Björkman, Isla Myers-Smith, Nicolas Lecomte, Jan C. Axmacher, Olivier Gilg, Michael Den Herder, Emmanuel P. Pagneux, Anna Skarin, Natalia Sokolova, Torben Windirsch, Helen C. Wheeler, Emmanuel Serrano, Tarmo Virtanen, David S. Hik, Elina Kaarlejarvi, James D. M. Speed, Eeva M. Soininen
ENVIRONMENTAL EVIDENCE - 2024 -
Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate
warming
I. S. Jónsdóttir, A. H. Halbritter, C. T. Christiansen, I. H. J. Althuizen, S. V. Haugum, J. J. Henn, Katrin Björnsdottir, B. S. Maitner, Y. Malhi, S. T. Michaletz, R. E. Roos, K. Klanderud, H. Lee, B. J. Enquist, V. Vandvik
Ecological Monographs - 2022 -
Global maps of soil
temperature
Jonas J. Lembrechts, Johan van den Hoogen, Juha Aalto, Michael B. Ashcroft, Pieter De Frenne, Julia Kemppinen, Martin Kopecký, Miska Luoto, Ilya M.D. Maclean, Thomas W. Crowther, Joseph J. Bailey, Stef Haesen, David H. Klinges, Pekka Niittynen, Brett R. Scheffers, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Peter Aartsma, Otar Abdalaze, Mehdi Abedi, Rien Aerts, Negar Ahmadian, Antje Ahrends, Juha M. Alatalo, Jake M. Alexander, Camille Nina Allonsius, Jan Altman, Christof Ammann, Christian Andres, Christopher Andrews, Jonas Ardö, Nicola Arriga, Alberto Arzac, Valeria Aschero, Rafael L. Assis, Jakob Johann Assmann, Maaike Y. Bader, Khadijeh Bahalkeh, Peter Barančok, Isabel C. Barrio, Agustina Barros, Matti Barthel, Edmund W. Basham, Marijn Bauters, Manuele Bazzichetto, Luca Belelli Marchesini, Michael C. Bell, Juan C. Benavides, José Luis Benito Alonso, Bernd J. Berauer, Jarle W. Bjerke, Robert G. Björk, Mats P. Björkman, Katrin Björnsdottir, Benjamin Blonder, Pascal Boeckx, Julia Boike, Stef Bokhorst, Bárbara N.S. Brum, Josef Brůna, Nina Buchmann, Pauline Buysse, José Luís Camargo, Otávio C. Campoe, Onur Candan, Rafaella Canessa, Nicoletta Cannone, Michele Carbognani, Jofre Carnicer, Angélica Casanova-Katny, Simone Cesarz, Bogdan Chojnicki, Philippe Choler, Steven L. Chown, Edgar F. Cifuentes, Marek Čiliak, Tamara Contador, Peter Convey, Elisabeth J. Cooper, Edoardo Cremonese, Salvatore R. Curasi, Robin Curtis, Maurizio Cutini, C. Johan Dahlberg, Gergana N. Daskalova, Miguel Angel de Pablo, Stefano Della Chiesa, Jürgen Dengler, Bart Deronde, Patrice Descombes, Valter Di Cecco, Michele Di Musciano, Jan Dick, Romina D. Dimarco, Jiri Dolezal, Ellen Dorrepaal, Jiří Dušek, Nico Eisenhauer, Lars Eklundh, Todd E. Erickson, Brigitta Erschbamer, Leif Klemedtsson, Bengt Liljeblad
Global Change Biology - 2022 -
Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegetation: a systematic
map
E. M. Soininen, I. C. Barrio, R. Bjørkås, Katrin Björnsdottir, D. Ehrich, K. A. Hopping, E. Kaarlejärvi, A. L. Kolstad, S. Abdulmanova, Robert G. Björk, C. G. Bueno, I. Eischeid, R. Finger-Higgens, J. S. Forbey, C. Gignac, O. Gilg, M. den Herder, H. S. Holm, B. C. Hwang, J. U. Jepsen, S. Kamenova, I. Kater, A. M. Koltz, J. A. Kristensen, C. J. Little, P. Macek, K. M. Mathisen, D. B. Metcalfe, J. B. Mosbacher, M. Mörsdorf, T. Park, J. R. Propster, A. J. Roberts, E. Serrano, M. P. Spiegel, M. Tamayo, M. W. Tuomi, M. Verma, K. E.M. Vuorinen, M. Väisänen, R. van der Wal, M. E. Wilcots, N. G. Yoccoz, J. D.M. Speed
Environmental Evidence - 2021