"False"
Skip to content
printicon
Main menu hidden.
Staff photo Valentin Kriegel

Valentin Kriegel

PhD student interested in functional ecology and plant-environment interactions

Works at

Affiliation
Location
KBC-Fysiologihuset, Linnaeus väg 6, Umeå, A5 20 15 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

I am interested in how plants interact with each other and the environments they grow in. Subarctic and arctic ecosystems are generally characterized by low microbial activity and nutrient availability and the plants there have adapted to these harsh environmental conditions.

With my research supervised by David Wardle, I want to find out how vegetation of alpine tundra will react to an increase in soil nutrients that is likely going to occur due to global drivers such as climate change and atmospheric nitrogen deposition.

While most past studies have only considered the direct effects of fertilization on tundra vegetation, I aim to decouple the effects of increased nutrient availability from indirect effects through species turnover.

Research groups

Group member