soil biodiversity at high latitudes and elevations

April 13, 2022 - 8 am MDT, 10 am EDT, 4 pm CEST

Moderated by Amanda Koltz

Soil communities at high latitudes and elevations, such as in the Arctic and mountain terrain, are experiencing climate changes including amounts and timing of snowfall and thawing in areas that were frozen much of the year. How do these changes impact soil microbial and faunal communities and associated ecosystem processes? What does this mean for the future? 

Join moderator Amanda Koltz (Washington University, Department of Biology, USA) and panelists Stephanie Kivlin (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Tennessee, USA), Paul Kardol (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Sweden), Julia Seeber (EURAC Research, Institute for Alpine Environment, Italy and University of Innsbruck, Austria), and Frank Hagedorn (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland) for a conversation on the effects of climate change on soil biodiversity in high latitude and elevations such as the Arctic and mountains and relevance to the provision of ecosystem services they provide.