Arctic ecosystems and our climate: do plants matter?
Event details
| Date | 30.10.2012 |
| Hour | 16:15 › 17:15 |
| Speaker | Dr Ellen Dorrepaal, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umea University, Sweden |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
For millennia, life in the arctic has been exposed to harsh conditions. Several adaptations have enabled plants to survive and to even dominate many arctic ecosystems and their impacts on the outside world. In particular, the faster production of organic matter by plants relative to its breakdown by microbes has resulted in the accumulation of large amounts of carbon in arctic soils. This long-term withdrawal of CO2 from the atmosphere has had a cooling influence on our global climate in the past. Presently, however, the arctic experiences pronounced climate warming. Will plants continue to dominate arctic ecosystem processes that feedback to the global climate?
Practical information
- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- IIE
Contact
- Prof. Alexandre Buttler, ECOS/WSL