@kristabirk.bsky.social presented her PhD work on litter decomposition of dwarf shrubs in Norwegian heathlands as part of the DURIN project, illustrating the benefits of using both local litter and teabag index data 🫐🍂🍵 #IAVS2026
Kristine Birkeli
@kristabirk.bsky.social
PhD candidate working with carbon dynamics in heathlands 🌱🫐🍂🌀 Part of the @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social team
My first PhD paper is out! It describes the fluxible #rstats package, a toolbox to process and quality check #ecosystem #gasfluxes in a reproducible and automated way. @unibergen.bsky.social @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no @li-corenv.bsky.social @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
fluxible: An R package to process ecosystem gas fluxes from closed‐loop chambers in an automated and reproducible way
Measuring ecosystem gas fluxes is crucial to understanding the dynamics of ecosystem water and energy cycling. A common method to measure ecosystem gas fluxes (CO2, CH4, N2O) and to compare experi...
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fluxible R package CRAN update (v1.3.0): new functions, vignette for tent setup, various fixes, and a logo! 1/4 #rstats #ecosystemgasfluxes #carbonfluxes @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @hilaryrosed.bsky.social @jonastrepel.bsky.social @martabaumane.bsky.social @kristabirk.bsky.social
#fieldwork is a key component of our research @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social - here’s a shoutout to all great colleagues & students who made it all happen this year! 🌐 🧪🏔️🫐 betweenthefjords.w.uib.no/field-season...
Field season 2025: it’s (almost) a wrap! – Between the Fjords
Whilst most of Norway calms down when the summer approaches; in our discipline of field ecology the months of June, July and August are the highlight of the action. This summer has seen yet again a great amount of project planning, data collection, identifying sedges without flowers, cooking leaves, and hiking across Bergen municipality.
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Western Norway is known as rainy, but droughts happen and will be more extreme and frequent due to climate change. @kristabirk.bsky.social shared her results at #EGU25 about a drought experiment in a coastal heathland, and the effects on leaf and flower phenology at different successional stages
Hey #rstats, could you point me to a ressource explaining why it matters for a package to be available on CRAN? (Both from user and developer perspective) Many thanks!
@sonyageange.bsky.social presenting the importance of scale when trying to understand the thermal tolerance limits in dwarf-shrubs 🫐 #EGU25 #DURIN
Amazing talk by @jogaudard.bsky.social at #EGU25 about his #Fluxible R package! A great tool for processing large amounts of ecosystem flux data in an #OpenScience way 🌿🌀 @egu.eu @egubg.bsky.social
Delighted to see my future lab group in Norway has joined Blue Sky! Give Between the Fjords a follow to hear about all their exciting research in the #carbon, #ecophys, #PlantTrait, #biodiversity space (particularly if you're a fellow #grasslands enthusiast). 🧪 #ecology
Between the Fjords Research Group@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · last yr.Between the Fjords is an ecology research group led by @vvandvik.bsky.social at the University of Bergen. We study environmental change in alpine and coastal landscapes, using field experiments, functional traits, carbon cycling, species composition, belowground ecology, & many more. Follow along!
Looking for an R based solution to process ecosystem gas fluxes data from closed loop chamber systems? Come to my #EGU25 talk! 🗓️2025-04-30 ⌚11:50 📍2.95 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-... #rstats #OpenScience
In the “Mind your head” session at #EGU25 and there is a sad pattern emerging from the survey 🤨 Taking time off protects you in the long (and short) term more than pushing yourself to the limit 🌞
Our PhD student Mika Kirkhus studies mycorrhizal 🍄associations in heathlands and their interactions with climate change, as part of the DURIN project 🫐. Read more!: www.uib.no/nt/177255/fo...
Forsker på soppens betydning for klimaendringer
Ph.d.-stipendiat Mika Helene Kirkhus utforsker hvordan sopp samarbeider med lyngplanter for å redusere skader fra klimaendringer. Hennes arbeid gir verdifull innsikt i naturens komplekse samspill.
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Learning by doing is a great tool. You learn A LOT as a student and you also get to contribute towards real science 
Between the Fjords Research Group@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social · last yr.We love engaging students in REAL research projects. Former MSc students (now PhD candidates!) @kristabirk.bsky.social and Ruben Schelbred Thormodsæter contributed to this Nature paper on Dark Diversity: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Read more: www.uib.no/nt/177393/na...
Between the Fjords is an ecology research group led by @vvandvik.bsky.social at the University of Bergen. We study environmental change in alpine and coastal landscapes, using field experiments, functional traits, carbon cycling, species composition, belowground ecology, & many more. Follow along!
