Plant Functional Traits Courses (PFTC) offer hands-on training in applications of plant functional trait ecology within a real-life field research project setting. During this 7th PFTC course, students will collect and explore plant functional trait data in the field and use trait-based approaches within community and ecosystem ecology. Following the course, students will have opportunities… Continue Reading Applications closed – Plant Functional Traits Course 7 South Africa
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How are plants in the Aurland area responding to climate change?
At the end of July, forty-two researchers, including twenty-nine students, traveled from across the world to study the alpine flora in Aurland. They visited eight sites on local farms that are already part of long-term research by Professor Vigdis Vandvik’s research group from Universitetet i Bergen. A common technique to study climate change is to… Continue Reading How are plants in the Aurland area responding to climate change?
PFTC6 Norway has officially started
Amidst fjords, steep mountains, and occasional pouring rain, the sixth edition of the Plant Functional Traits Course has successfully kicked off. 42 students and staff members from 27 institutions over 15 countries have gathered in western Norway to study mountain vegetation and its attributes, all the while getting hand-on experience in collecting a large and… Continue Reading PFTC6 Norway has officially started
DEADLINE EXTENDED Plant Functional Traits Course 6 Norway: Sign up now!
Plant Functional Traits Courses (PFTC) offer hands-on training in applications of plant functional trait ecology within a real-life field research project setting. During this 6th PFTC course, students will collect and explore plant functional trait data in the field and use trait-based approaches within global change research and ecosystem ecology. Following the course, students will… Continue Reading DEADLINE EXTENDED Plant Functional Traits Course 6 Norway: Sign up now!
Nature E&E cover story
Vaccinium vitis-idaea at the sub-Arctic Fennoscandian site. Image by Julia Kemppinen PFTC insights help show that trait–environment relationships are generalizable across tundra plant communities. Years of hard work mixed with a solid dose of expertise, this paper led by PFTC4 participant Julia Kemppinen integrates an elaborate field study in tundra with insights from the PFTC course… Continue Reading Nature E&E cover story
Two new papers out!
The last PFTC course was held in Peru March 2020, and unfortunately cut short (and for many, extended far beyond planning) due to the emerging Covid-19 outbreak. You can read more about that here, here and here. Whilst we had to leave our field sites early, we still managed to collect most of our planned data. In addition… Continue Reading Two new papers out!