Program
ITEX MEETING 2025 Program
29 Sept
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16:00
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18:00Dinner
30-Sept
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07:30–09:30Breakfast
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08:45–10:30Opening
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09:00Intro + practical things
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09:15NJB Special Issue
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09:30–10:30Nordens Ark intro (½ grp, 30 min) / Tiger tour (½ grp, 30 min)
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10:30–11:00Fika
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11:00–12:30Session 1 — Plant Traits & Functional Ecology Leader: Christian R
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11:00Borealization of plant communities in the Arctic is driven by boreal-tundra species
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11:15Intraspecific functional trait responses to experimental warming vary with precipitation and growth form
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11:30Microtopography acts as alpine plant refugia in a warming climate
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11:45How environment affects ontogenetic differences in leaf functional traits of woody plants
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12:00A 100-year vegetation changes in the Swedish Sub-Arctic: functional trait turnover towards taller but slow-growing species.
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12:15Reshaping Alpine–Arctic ecosystems: how climate change is driving shifts in plant functional traits and community composition
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12:30–13:30Lunch
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13:30–15:30Excursion — Nordens Ark
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15:30–16:00Fika
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16:00–17:00Session 2 — Ecosystem Function & Productivity Leader: Cassandra
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16:00Fine scale remote sensing of tundra environments using UAVs
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16:15How a peat bog responds to warming
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16:30Arctic Coastal Wetland and Tundra Reveal Similar CO₂ Sensitivity but Divergent CH₄ Responses to Warming and Flooding
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16:45Ecotypic variation and the timing of senescence in a changing arctic climate.
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18:00Dinner
1 Oct
- 07:30–09:30Breakfast
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09:00–10:15cont. Session 2 — Ecosystem Function & Productivity Leader: Cassandra
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09:00Winter icing and summer warming increase CO₂ emissions and prevent icing-induced decomposition decline in Arctic tundra
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09:15Acclimation and adaptation led the response of Salix species leaf photosynthesis to environmental gradients in the High Arctic (Qarlikturvik glacier valley, Nunavut, Canada)
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—Session 3 — Biodiversity & Taxonomy Leader: Bob
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09:30Declining or thriving? Climatic affinity of Arctic plants explains their abundance trends.
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09:45Genome-wide changes associated with 24 years of warming in tundra plants
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10:00Thriving in the Shadows: Expansion of Rubus chamaemorus (Cloudberry) in the Arctic Tundra
- 10:15The influence of shrub-moss interactions on shrub growth responses to climate change
- 10:30–11:00Fika
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11:00–12:30Workshops
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—ITEX and the science-policy interface: feeding scientific knowledge into policy-makingRoom: Tigerhuset / The Tiger house
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—Trait-Climate Connections Up Close: Manuscript Working Group MeetingRoom: Skolhuset / The School house
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—Mycorrhizal abundance and diversity across the ITEX networkRoom: Mangården / The Manor
- 12:30–13:30Lunch
- 13:30–17:00Excursion — Ramsvikslandet
- 18:00Dinner
2 Oct
- 07:30–09:30Breakfast
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09:00–10:30Session 4 — Soil & Belowground Processes Leader: Siri
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09:00Permafrost thaw and warming enhance decomposition in palsa peatland
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09:15Flooding has little impact on soil respiration and methanogenesis responses to temperature in high latitude wetlands and tundra
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09:30The hare and totoise of arctic methane
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09:45Biocrust-plant interactions in a warmer Tundra: learnings from a 7yr ITEX site in Iceland
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10:00Warming-driven root decomposition in a shrubifying Arctic
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10:15The role of mycorrhizal type and plant dominance in regulating nitrogen cycling in Oroarctic soils
- 10:30–11:00Fika
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11:00–12:30Workshops
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—ArcSeed: integrating seed traits into Arctic tundra researchRoom: Tigerhuset / The Tiger house
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—Winter Ecology + Carbon stuffRoom: Skolhuset / The School house
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—Small meetings
- 12:30–13:30Lunch
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13:30–15:00
- 16:30–17:30Excursion — Smögen
- 18:00Dinner at Hamnen4 on Smögen
3 Oct
- 07:30–09:30Breakfast
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09:00–10:30cont. Session 4 Leader: Siri
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09:00Thaw slump at the snow fence
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09:15Warming and Biotic Interactions Shape Soil Processes in Tundra Ecosystems
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—Session 5 — Species Interactions & Community Dynamics Leader: Alessandro
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09:30Hearing the grass grow: advances in alpine grassland phenology
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09:45Species-specific mechanisms underlie the rise of shrubs in a warming Arctic
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10:00Warming reversed the positive N effect on productivity through altering species richness and compensatory dynamics over nine years
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10:15The winners and losers of Arctic and alpine plants in a warming world
- 10:30–11:00Fika
- 11:00Plant regeneration from seed in the changing Arctic
- 11:15The role of pollination in structuring plant community composition at high latitudes
- 11:30–12:30ITEX general things
- 12:30–13:30Lunch
- 13:30Bus from Nordens Ark to Clariton Hotel Post (arrive ~15:00)
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