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.
The Climatic Stress Lab formally collaborates with Université de Rennes1 from 2019-2023 med through a LIA grant (Laboratoire International Associé).
Super antifreeze in cells: The ability to survive in ice and snow developed in animals far earlier than we thought. Read about it here
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
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
In our newly funded research project we are going to investigate the genetic basis of freeze-tolerance in the Arctic whiteworm Enchytraeus albidus. Link to project
