• Controlling biases in targeted plant removal experiments 

      Monteux, Sylvain; Blume-Werry, Gesche; Gavazov, Konstantin; Kirchhoff, Leah; Krab, Eveline J.; Lett, Signe; Pedersen, Emily P.; Väisänen, Maria (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-30)
      <uli> <li>Targeted removal experiments are a powerful tool to assess the effects of plant species or (functional) groups on ecosystem functions. However, removing plant biomass in itself can bias the observed responses. This bias is commonly addressed by waiting until ecosystem recovery, but this is inherently based on unverified proxies or anecdotal evidence. Statistical control methods are ...
    • Experimentally increased snow depth affects high Arctic microarthropods inconsistently over two consecutive winters 

      Krab, Eveline J.; Lundin, Erik J.; Coulson, Stephen James; Dorrepaal, Ellen; Cooper, Elisabeth J. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-27)
      Climate change induced alterations to winter conditions may afect decomposer organisms controlling the vast carbon stores in northern soils. Soil microarthropods are particularly abundant decomposers in Arctic ecosystems. We studied whether increased snow depth afected microarthropods, and if efects were consistent over two consecutive winters. We sampled Collembola and soil mites from a snow ...