ITEX Meeting Program

Program

ITEX MEETING 2025 Program

29 Sept

30-Sept

  • 07:30–09:30
    Breakfast
  • 08:45–10:30
    Opening
  • 09:00
    Intro + practical things
  • 09:15
    NJB Special Issue
    Friederike Gehrmann
  • 09:30–10:30
    Nordens Ark intro (½ grp, 30 min) / Tiger tour (½ grp, 30 min)
  • 10:30–11:00
    Fika
  • 11:00–12:30
    Session 1 — Plant Traits & Functional Ecology Leader: Christian R
  • 11:00
    Borealization of plant communities in the Arctic is driven by boreal-tundra species
    Mariana García Criado
  • 11:15
    Intraspecific functional trait responses to experimental warming vary with precipitation and growth form
    Sonya R. Geange
  • 11:30
    Microtopography acts as alpine plant refugia in a warming climate
    Ditte Marie Christiansen
  • 11:45
    How environment affects ontogenetic differences in leaf functional traits of woody plants
    Ziyan Zhang
  • 12:00
    A 100-year vegetation changes in the Swedish Sub-Arctic: functional trait turnover towards taller but slow-growing species.
    Magnus Gundersen Lihn
  • 12:15
    Reshaping Alpine–Arctic ecosystems: how climate change is driving shifts in plant functional traits and community composition
    Wouter Hantson
  • 12:30–13:30
    Lunch
  • 13:30–15:30
    Excursion — Nordens Ark
  • 15:30–16:00
    Fika
  • 16:00–17:00
    Session 2 — Ecosystem Function & Productivity Leader: Cassandra
  • 16:00
    Fine scale remote sensing of tundra environments using UAVs
    Matthias Siewert
  • 16:15
    How a peat bog responds to warming
    Niels Gudmand Christiansen
  • 16:30
    Arctic Coastal Wetland and Tundra Reveal Similar CO₂ Sensitivity but Divergent CH₄ Responses to Warming and Flooding
    Katharine Kelsey
  • 16:45
    Ecotypic variation and the timing of senescence in a changing arctic climate.
    Ned Fetcher
  • 18:00
    Dinner

1 Oct

  • 07:30–09:30
    Breakfast
  • 09:00–10:15
    cont. Session 2 — Ecosystem Function & Productivity Leader: Cassandra
  • 09:00
    Winter icing and summer warming increase CO₂ emissions and prevent icing-induced decomposition decline in Arctic tundra
    Matteo Petit Bon
  • 09:15
    Acclimation and adaptation led the response of Salix species leaf photosynthesis to environmental gradients in the High Arctic (Qarlikturvik glacier valley, Nunavut, Canada)
    Vincent Maire
  • Session 3 — Biodiversity & Taxonomy Leader: Bob
  • 09:30
    Declining or thriving? Climatic affinity of Arctic plants explains their abundance trends.
    Jeremy Borderieux
  • 09:45
    Genome-wide changes associated with 24 years of warming in tundra plants
    Cassandra Elphinstone
  • 10:00
    Thriving in the Shadows: Expansion of Rubus chamaemorus (Cloudberry) in the Arctic Tundra
    Paulo C. Olivas
  • 10:15
    The influence of shrub-moss interactions on shrub growth responses to climate change
    Alba Anadon-Rosell
  • 10:30–11:00
    Fika
  • 11:00–12:30
    Workshops
  • ITEX and the science-policy interface: feeding scientific knowledge into policy-making
    Room: Tigerhuset / The Tiger house
  • Trait-Climate Connections Up Close: Manuscript Working Group Meeting
    Room: Skolhuset / The School house
  • Mycorrhizal abundance and diversity across the ITEX network
    Room: Mangården / The Manor
  • 12:30–13:30
    Lunch
  • 13:30–17:00
    Excursion — Ramsvikslandet
  • 18:00
    Dinner

2 Oct

  • 07:30–09:30
    Breakfast
  • 09:00–10:30
    Session 4 — Soil & Belowground Processes Leader: Siri
  • 09:00
    Permafrost thaw and warming enhance decomposition in palsa peatland
    Inge Althuizen
  • 09:15
    Flooding has little impact on soil respiration and methanogenesis responses to temperature in high latitude wetlands and tundra
    A. Joshua Leffler
  • 09:30
    The hare and totoise of arctic methane
    Jan Dietrich
  • 09:45
    Biocrust-plant interactions in a warmer Tundra: learnings from a 7yr ITEX site in Iceland
    Alejandro Salazar
  • 10:00
    Warming-driven root decomposition in a shrubifying Arctic
    Sarah Schwieger
  • 10:15
    The role of mycorrhizal type and plant dominance in regulating nitrogen cycling in Oroarctic soils
    Robert G. Björk
  • 10:30–11:00
    Fika
  • 11:00–12:30
    Workshops
  • ArcSeed: integrating seed traits into Arctic tundra research
    Room: Tigerhuset / The Tiger house
  • Winter Ecology + Carbon stuff
    Room: Skolhuset / The School house
  • Small meetings
  • 12:30–13:30
    Lunch
  • 13:30–15:00
  • 16:30–17:30
    Excursion — Smögen
  • 18:00
    Dinner at Hamnen4 on Smögen

3 Oct

  • 07:30–09:30
    Breakfast
  • 09:00–10:30
    cont. Session 4 Leader: Siri
  • 09:00
    Thaw slump at the snow fence
    Elisabeth Cooper
  • 09:15
    Warming and Biotic Interactions Shape Soil Processes in Tundra Ecosystems
    Sidonie Loiez
  • Session 5 — Species Interactions & Community Dynamics Leader: Alessandro
  • 09:30
    Hearing the grass grow: advances in alpine grassland phenology
    Christian Rixen
  • 09:45
    Species-specific mechanisms underlie the rise of shrubs in a warming Arctic
    Ruby An
  • 10:00
    Warming reversed the positive N effect on productivity through altering species richness and compensatory dynamics over nine years
    Xiaoyi Wang
  • 10:15
    The winners and losers of Arctic and alpine plants in a warming world
    Ragnhild Gya
  • 10:30–11:00
    Fika
  • 11:00
    Plant regeneration from seed in the changing Arctic
    Sergey Rosbakh
  • 11:15
    The role of pollination in structuring plant community composition at high latitudes
    Wilhelm Osterman
  • 11:30–12:30
    ITEX general things
  • 12:30–13:30
    Lunch
  • 13:30
    Bus from Nordens Ark to Clariton Hotel Post (arrive ~15:00)
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