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MAJA SUNDQVIST, PhD
(Researcher)

Email: Maja.Sundqvist@slu.se

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Research Summary

My research focuses on how abiotic and biotic interactions influence community and ecosystem responses to climate change in arctic and mountain ecosystems.

Current Projects

Our Projects

What is a landscape characterized by grazing?

We will examine how effects of excluding reindeer on vegetation vary across gradients in reindeer densities and climatic conditions in the Scandinavian mountains, and assess the importance of these findings in relationship to the environmental quality objectives.

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Network: Warming and (species) Removal in Mountains (WaRM)

In WaRM we study community and ecosystem responses to the direct and indirect effects of warming in a coordinated project that combines experimental warming and dominant plant species removal at high and low elevations among 10 globally-distributed gradients.

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My Research in the News

Arctic News

Think - Alpine Ecosystems under the microscope

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Sweden – a peephole into climate changes

The Earth is getting warmer, we know that. In Sweden, there are unique opportunities for researchers to examine how this fact affects the climate in Sweden and in the rest of the world. Sweden is like a peephole into the future, the water temperature rises, the glaciers are melting, the permafrost thaws.

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Så kan renen dämpa klimatförändringarna

Renen har betydelse när det gäller att dämpa klimatförändringarna, det menar Johan Olofsson som är universitetslektor vid Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap på Umeå universitet.

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Temperature change affects temperate mountain ecosystems globally

The warmer climate that is expected over the next 80 years could lead to major disruptions in ecosystems of high mountain landscapes, for example by altered balance between nitrogen and phosphorus in the soil. The results in a new study are presented by an international team of researchers led by SLU in Nature. Maja Sundqvist, active researcher in the Climate Impact Research Centre (CIRC), Umeå University, participated in the study.

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