Agricultural University of Iceland (AUI)
Isabel C. Barrio (Network Lead)
Isabel is a terrestrial ecologist interested in understanding plant-herbivore interactions in changing tundra ecosystems. Her research in Iceland focuses on the impacts of sheep grazing on common highland ranges.
Arthur Grand
Arthur works on large herbivore diet composition and quality throughout the Arctic and the effects of climate change on them. Including reindeer, muskox and sheep between Iceland, Greenland and Norway, Arthur’s PhD project is part of a wider project called TUNDRAdiet (2026-2029), led by Isabel C Barrio.
Charlotte Wagner
Charlotte’s research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that enable coexistence between wild and domestic herbivores, with a particular emphasis on how these species partition plant resources. In Iceland, her work investigates the diet composition and quality of coexisting sheep, geese, and reindeer in order to assess potential competition for food resources.
Ása Lovísa Aradóttir
Jón Guðmundsson
Hlynur Óskarsson
Emmanuel Pierre Pagneux
Christian Schultze
Bjarni Diðrik Sigurðsson
Alejandro Salazar Villegas
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Tom Vorstenbosch (Network coordinator)
Tom is a terrestrial plant ecologist interested in biological invasions in cold regions, the responses of polar ecosystems to climate change, and ethnobotany. He currently focuses on quantifying circumpolar borealisation across tundra ecosystems using species distribution modelling and remote sensing.
James DM Speed
James works on plant-herbivore interactions and phenology. He works with field studies, natural history collections and biogeography, and his work span ecosystems and local to global scales.
Kristine Bakke Westergaard
Gunnar Austrheim
David Williamson
Beatrice M. Trăscău
Beatrice’s research focuses on how changes in land-use shape community composition and biodiversity dynamics across different spatial and temporal scales. I am also interested in how rising anthropogenic pressures act together to shape the biomes and ecosystems around us.
Hans Meinhard í Eyðansstovu
University of Eastern Finland
Mariana Verdonen
Mariana is a physical geographer specialising in GIS and remote sensing of environmental changes in northern ecosystems, with a focus on interactions among permafrost, landscape, and climate dynamics.
Elias Koivisto
Elias is a geoscientist researching greening and shrubification combining remote sensing data, such as synthetic aperture radar and multispectral satellite data. His interest lies in examining plant community changes in multiple temporal and spatial scales in Siberia and Northern Fennoscandia.
Pasi Korpelainen
Timo Kumpula
University of Gothenburg
Anne Bjorkman
Anne is a terrestrial ecologist interested in understanding plant-herbivore interactions in changing tundra ecosystems. Her research in Iceland focuses on the impacts of sheep grazing on common highland ranges.
Alexandra Barry
Katrin Björnsdottir
Maria Pavolotskaia
The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)
Jarad Mellard
Jarad studies Arctic populations, communities, and food webs using a combination of theory and observations.
Rolf Anker Ims
Tanguy Bernard
Elisabeth Cooper
Dorothee Ehrich
Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR)
Mathilde Le Moullec
Mathilde studies effects of climate change on arctic terrestrial ecosystems to draw management advice that ensure sustainable harvest by local communities. Her main research topics focus on large herbivore ecology and evolution, as well as plant-herbivore feedback.
Laura Barbero-Palacios
Laura is a terrestrial ecologist interested in understanding the effect of herbivores on Arctic and alpine ecosystems.
Katrine Raundrup
Aarhus University
Niels Martin Schmidt
Niels’ research targets Arctic ecosystem ecology with emphasis on biodiversity, interactions between trophic levels, but also species/community responses to climate change and other environmental drivers.
Efrén López-Blanco
Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF)
Mariana García Criado
Mariana is a plant ecologist who researchers diversity dynamics under climate change in Arctic and Antarctic plants. She works at local scales doing fieldwork across polar regions and at macroecological scales to understand large-scale patterns of change.
University of Savoie Mont Blanc
Mathilde Defourneaux
Mathilde research interests focuse on how herbivory, herbivore interactions, and animal movement shape tundra ecosystem processes under environmental change. She integrates telemetry, near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy, field measurements, and modeling to investigate consumer–resource dynamics across the Arctic and mountain systems.
University of British Columbia/University of Edinburgh
Isla Myers-Smith
Isla is a global change ecologist and a Canada Excellence Research Chair studying how ecosystems are responding as the planet warms in the Arctic and beyond. She conducts field research in the Yukon Territory in northwest Canada and I also work collaboratively to synthesize data from sites across the tundra biome.
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC)
Miguel Villoslada
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
Jane Uhd Jepsen