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.
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.