19th International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) Meeting

The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) is a collaborative effort involving scientists from more than 11 countries, including all the Arctic nations.

The main scientific themes of this meeting will include:

• Rates of change and whole‐ecosystem processes,
• Plant functional traits/"functional diversity change",
• Tundra data synthesis (e.g. including up‐scaling),
• Microbial ecology (including plant‐soil interactions);
• ITEX protocol development, and
• Other (to reflect submitted abstracts).\

MRI Co-Principal Investigator and ITEX Steering Committee member Christian Rixen will present two sessions: "Hearing the grass grow: Vegetation records at automatic climate stations” and "The local species pool: How much does our measured vegetation change depend on the potential colonizers at our sites?”

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