AT A GLANCE Project Information
Project Title: From spruce to beech forests – fundamental ecosystem transition driven by climate change
Project Objective: The main project objective is to elucidate the realism in and the biological effects of a future northward expansion of beech at the expense of Norway spruce. This includes studies of I) Forest history (paleoecology and dendrochronology), 2) Physiology of the northern beech provenances 3) The aboveground-belowground societies in the co-occurring spruce and beech forests
Project Duration and Timing: 4 years, starting June 2013
Project Funding: Norwegian Research Council, EUR753 000
Project Partners: University of Oslo, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, University of Liverpool, Uni Research AS
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Line Nybakken Line Nybakken has been Associate Professor in Applied Forest Ecology at NMBU since 2012. Her main research interests are within ecophysiology of woody plants, but she also has great interest for arctic-alpine plants and lichens. Research questions are often related to effects of climate change on plants’ use of carbon to growth and secondary metabolism, as well as on phenology.
survive in the coastal, but maybe not in continental regions further north. If beech trees are to out-compete spruce
trees in spruce forest, they need to be able to germinate and establish themselves successfully. They are already known to be able to thrive in the relatively low light conditions present at the spruce forest floor, and new experiments in this project have shown that the animals in spruce forests
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prefer to eat spruce seeds, conferring an advantage
to beech plants germinating
under spruce. As beech trees begin their inevitable
inroads into lands classically dominated by spruce, these studies will provide valuable information about the wider effects of this transformation, as well as providing a fascinating case study of how climate change is driving rapid ecological change.
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Contact: Tel: +47 67231787 Email:
line.nybakken@nmbu.no Web:
http://statisk.umb.no/ina/ ansatte/
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