Goodbye!

Big achievement this week: one of our master students defended his thesis, and will thus be able to put an endmark behind their education! A big congratulation to Ilias Janssens for all he achieved.

Virtual trial thesis defence by Ilias Janssens

Ilias studied the relative importance of climate and disturbance as driver of plant community traits, using a huge dataset of plant traits from over 160 species from the Scandinavian mountains. Main result: local disturbances like roads and trails have surprisingly small effects on community traits in comparison with large-scale drivers such as temperature.