Niels Martin Schmidt

Mismatch in reindeer resilience to past and future warming signals ongoing declines Rangifer population dynamics over 21,000 years reveal that future climatic warming will cause losses that surpass safe boundaries.

🦌 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🦌

Our paper on wild #reindeer and #caribou is out in Science Advances! Thanks to the team: Eric Post, @nmschmidt.bsky.social, Stuart Brown, @noguesbravo.bsky.social and Damien Fordham that co-lead this research.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

🦌 Emerging priorities in Arctic #herbivory research 🦌

Our horizon scan highlights priority areas for Arctic herbivory management and research. Wonderfully led (as always) by @icbarrio.bsky.social and in collaboration with >70 interdisciplinary authors.

cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Illustration of a Greenlandic landscape, showing in the foreground Rhododendron lapponicum on a cliff, with sea ice and icebergs in the background. Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social)

🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸

Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Qiviut Trace and Macro Element Profile Reflects Muskox Population Trends This study assesses the concentration of trace elements in muskox qiviut (hair) in populations with different trajectories. We found that certain elements, including copper, selenium and iron, were m....

Trace element signatures in wool from wild #muskox reveal population trends. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @zackenberg.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social @au.dk @cnrs.fr

Infographic map showing the six marine flyways (Atlantic Ocean Flyway, North Indian Ocean Flyway, East Indian Ocean Flyway, West Pacific Ocean Flyway, Pacific Ocean Flyway, Southern Ocean Flyway) in a spilhaus projection, and the general direction of travel by migratory seabirds

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways using #seabird #tracking data & novel analytical methods

➡️ doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004

🧪 #ornithology #migration #BLScience
@birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

We are grateful to GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social for funding the project

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Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas Marine ecosystems across the globe are under pressure requiring evaluations of whether marine protected areas (MPAs) remain effective in safeguarding …

New study out!! 25 years of harbour porpoise tracking data shows a decline in overlap between habitat suitability and the location of MPAs across the North Sea–Baltic Sea transition zone. Relevant info for the design of future MPAs under the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030!

shorturl.at/scIGB

Looking to explore High Arctic carbon dynamics?
🚨 We're offering a PhD opportunity at #Zackenberg Research Station! Dive into 25 years of #GEM and #ICOS data, conduct fieldwork, and study Arctic ecosystems under climate change. 🌍
🔗 Share or Apply now: tinyurl.com/Zackenberg
#ArcticResearch #PhDLife

Interested in Arctic research? Apply for a PhD position at Aarhus University, Denmark, to study #carbon dynamics in undisturbed high-Arctic ecosystems at Zackenberg Research Station, NE Greenland. Application deadline is 25 March 2025. #ICOS phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

Diet study of #arctic #shorebird chicks from #Greenland @zackenberg.bsky.social using DNA barcoding.

Diptera are an important component of Arctic
shorebird chick diets in NE Greenland.

We will be hosting the 1st International Symposium on Volatile Interactions in Ecosystems in Copenhagen in May 2025.

This symposium will bring together scientists working with #Biogeochemistry, #ChemicalEcology and #Ecosystem-atmosphereInteractions related to VOCs, volatile S and N.

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Postdoctoral position in Arctic coastal carbon cycling. Be our new co-worker! (Please share far and wide) nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/65-post...

Are you still unsure where to join the discussion with people in #biogeoscience on how #animals affect the #Earth system?🦬

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

See you in Vienna at #EGU2025!

Submission deadline is 15th Jan, 1300 CET

@eurogeosciences.bsky.social

They lived through the ice age. Can the mighty musk ox survive the heat? Rising temperatures are pushing these Arctic mammals ever farther into Greenland’s north. But eventually there will be nowhere left for them to go Built like a small bison, weighing as much as a grand piano and covered in thick, shaggy coat, the musk…

They lived through the ice age. Can the mighty musk ox survive the heat?

They lived through the ice age. Can the mighty musk ox survive the heat? Rising temperatures are pushing these Arctic mammals ever farther into Greenland’s north. But eventually there will be nowhere left for them to go

A fine yet worrying piece about the threads to the mighty musk with some familiar faces, including @nmschmidt.bsky.social from @aarhusuni.bsky.social and the excellent KISS station manager Chris Sørensen 🦬❄️🌿

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Helt utroligt med alle disse utidssvarende og biodiversitets-skadelige regler 🌿🐂🐎🪻 #dkpol #dkgreen #trepart

@zackenberg.bsky.social

The #Arctic flora and fauna are not only responding to #climate change - they also modulate the way ecosystems feed back to the climate system. Read more about how here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/env... @beestfloris.bsky.social @larsholst.bsky.social @jeep4x4.bsky.social @nordborn.bsky.social

GitHub - olivierfriard/CamTrap_banner_decoder: Extract info from the camera trap banner (pictures and videos) Extract info from the camera trap banner (pictures and videos) - olivierfriard/CamTrap_banner_decoder

Hi, I am currently developing a Python script to extract information from the banner of pictures and videos captured by camera traps. This is an alpha version, so your feedback is invaluable! Please test it and let me know your thoughts.

github.com/olivierfriar...

🌿 We need to raise the profile of #bryophyte ecological research 🌿 (and also a bryophyte emoji!)

In this opinion piece, we as a group of #ECRs outline barriers in bryophyte research and provide recommendations to overcome them across institutional levels & disciplines.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

Planning a research project in Zackenberg or Daneborg 2025?
Mark your calendars with the deadlines:
Application: January 15, 2025.
Air cargo : February 14, 2025
Ship cargo : June 13, 2025
Our new online application system launches in December 2024 - stay tuned!

EU proposal to adapt protection status of the wolf adopted by Bern Convention, paving the way to more flexibility in managing wolf populations Today, the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention voted in favour of the EU proposal to adapt the protection status of the wolf from ‘strictly protected' to ‘protected'.

As expected, the downlisting of the #wolf Canis lupus at the Bern Convention Standing Committee was approved. A thread on some ins and outs. 1/

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Increasing variability in resource supply over time disrupts plant–pollinator interactions Insect–plant interactions are key determinants of plant and insect fitness, providing important ecosystem services around the world—including the Arctic region. Recently, it has been suggested that c...

High #Arctic #pollinators face resource scarcity and a more unpredictable supply: During the past 25 years at @zackenberg.bsky.social, periods with low resource supply is increasing, so is the variation in resource availability.

Read the paper here: shorturl.at/gllhz

@bugwebs.bsky.social

Picture advertising the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2025 session entitled "Borealization of tundra ecosystems". Text in the picture: Are you planning to join EGU 2025? If your research focuses on the northward or upward shift in the distribution of temperate or boreal species, we’d love to see your abstract for our session BG3.20!

📢 New EGU session alert!

Submit your abstract by 15 January 2025! Or December 2nd, if you want to apply for travel support! 🌱

meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Postdoc position in Arctic carbon cycling here at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 with my very awesome 😎 colleague Mats Björkman: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... #Arctic #postdoc #job

We find that associations between species are very plastic and that bonds between partners vary with environmental conditions. In a rapidly changing Arctic, the current structure of plant-root associations may be severely altered - yet, the plasticity may provide some resilience of the system.

Arctic plant-fungus interaction networks show major rewiring with environmental variation - Communications Earth & Environment Fungus-plant interactions in the Arctic are highly pliable and can alter under changing temperature and soil conditions, according to modelling of plant and fungal communities using DNA metabarcoding ...

Arctic plant-fungus interactions are highly plastic, with major rewiring among interaction partners across variable environmental conditions - read the paper here

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

#Zackenberg #Arctic #BioticInteractions

Are you looking for an exciting PhD position in remote sensing? This might be your opportunity to join the NordBorN team at the University of Eastern Finland! More info: nordborn.lbhi.is?p=231

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), College of Natural Science and Mathematics (CNSM), and Institute of Arctic Biology (IAB) seek a tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in animal ecology. More info: tinyurl.com/5n8kakdd

The identity of the herbivore community shapes vegetation in Arctic tundra — but isolating the effects of herbivore diversity remains challenging. Check out the latest HN paper: rdcu.be/dCsk9

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is looking for an Assoc. Prof. in Arctic Botany! More info: tinyurl.com/yf4frx5h

Lemming cycles as a transient phenomenon - evidence from a compilation of the longest time series on lemming dynamics available from across the Arctic

Read the paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....