The Climate Stress Lab by Professor Martin Holmstrup and Associate professor Stine Slotsbo is a research group under Section of Terrestrial Ecology at Department of Ecoscience.
Climate Stress Lab have been on a field trip at Mols to collect springtails for drought experiments. On the branches of mulberry bushes, we found several hundred cosmopolitan springtails Entomobrya nivalis.
100 boxes of Enchytraeus produced by Nexø Harbor A/S. The worms are going to be used for a large-scale experiments with flounder and turbot, conducted by Fishlab and Venøsund Fish and Seafood Aps. The project is funded by the Danish Fisheries Authority with the support of the European Union.
Our climatic stress impact research on springtail community metabolism in the CLIMAITE and ForHot projects is represented in this synthesis paper driven by Anton Potapov (iDiv). Link to paper.
Getting closer to understanding why high temperature interacts with toxicity of contaminants – see our new paper in Chemosphere
Soil fauna are instrumental for litter degradation – but mostly so for tree species producing palatable and easily digestible leaf litter. Link to paper
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Wencai Dai defended his PhD on the 31st of May. Congrats to Wencai with his PHD degree and his employment as a researcher at the College of Resources and Environment, Southwest University, China, where he will continue his work on multiple stressors (natural stressors and chemicals) on soil invertebrates
Communities of Collembola show functional resilience in a long-term field experiment simulating climate change. Link to paper
Forest management, including selection of appropriate tree species to mitigate climate change and sustain biodiversity, requires a better understanding of factors that affect the composition of soil fauna communities. This paper shows how tree species, and to some extent the type of mycorrhizal association, defines the soil fauna communities in forests. Link to paper
In our newly funded research project we are going to investigate the genetic basis of freeze-tolerance in the Arctic whiteworm Enchytraeus albidus. Link til projekt
Earthworm burrow number and vertical distribution are affected by the crop sequence of a grass-clover rotation system. Link to paper.
Adults and eggs of the Arctic seed bug, Nysius groenlandicus have high heat tolerance. Only the eggs overwinter and are extremely desiccation resistant. Link to paper.
When thermal conditions become stressful, the sensitivity of insects toward insecticides can be exacerbated. Likewise, exposure of insects to insecticides can subsequently influence their ability to handle stressful temperatures. Link to paper.
The potworm, Enchytraeus albidus, has a broad thermal optimum range and displays almost similar biomass production in the range of 15–22 °C. Maximum production of this live-feed for fish can reach 80 g live worms per month per liter soil. Link to paper.
