Spring 2020
13 Jan: 14:00 AiroPlant annual meeting at Chalmersska Huset
21 Jan: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Henni Ylänne from Lund University: Depicting reindeer impact on vegetation and ecosystem processes by using national borders as long-term experiments
28 Jan etc: To be announced
Fall 2019
27 Aug, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – Hello again!
3 Sep, 15:00: AiroPlant meeting – Scheduling for the fall + entering publications etc on webpage
10 Sep, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – Shubhangi Lamba: PhD thesis pre-presentation for feedback
17 Sep, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – Karin Johansson telling us about her Finnish arctic adventure
20 Sep, 13:00: PhD dissertation, Shubhangi Lamba
24 Sep, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – Bonaventure Ntirugulirwa: conference pre-presentation
1 Oct, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – Eric Mirindi Dusenge: PhD thesis pre-presentation for feedback
8 Oct, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – Leif Klemedtsson will come and tell us about opportunities for research and teaching at Skogaryd field research site
15 Oct, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – Maria Wittemann: Temperature acclimation in four contrasting tropical tree species
22-23 Oct: BECC annual meeting in Halmstad
29 Oct, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – Anne Bjorkman presents her research with particular emphasis on ongoing and coming projects as well as potential collaboration
5 Nov, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – John Livsey, Stockholm University, visiting and presenting some of his PhD research
12 Nov, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – Carl Svensson presenting plans for his 60 credits MSc thesis project
19 Nov, 14:00: AiroPlant – (1) Lina Mercado: Measuring thermal acclimation of montane Andean forest and modelling tropical rainforest productivity; (2) Eric Mirindi Dusenge: Thermal acclimation of photosynthesis and respiration in two tropical rainforest species; (3) Johan Uddling: Controls of shade tolerance in tropical montane trees
26 Nov, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – Göran Wallin: Leaf mineral composition in tropical trees
3 Dec, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – Filip Moldan: Changes in plant species at Gårdsjön after 25 years of N additions
10 Dec: BioEnv department day (no AiroPlant meeting)
17 Dec, 14:00: AiroPlant meeting – Malin Broberg: Ozone effects on mineral allocation in wheat crops + Håkan Pleijel: Interactive effects of ozone and nitrogen on crop yield and protein
Spring 2019
15 Jan: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Hello again! Scheduling the spring term.
22 Jan: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Thibaud Chatillo: “Results from MSc work on the Formas project Clean the air with plants“
29 Jan: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Zhaozhong Feng (Chinese Academy of Science): Chinese research on impacts of ozone on crops and trees
5 Feb: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Paper discussion: Synthetic glycolate metabolism pathways stimulate crop growth and productivity in the field by PF South et al., Science 04 Jan 2019
12 Feb: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Publication presentation and cake by Håkan Pleijel
19 Feb: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Publication presentation and cake + proposal idea by Annemieke Gärdenäs
26 Feb: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Lasse Tarvainen: Presenting VR/Formas proposal idea
28 Feb: 8:30, 10:30 and 13:00 – lectures by candidates for lectureship in plant ecology
1 Mar: 8:30 – lecture by candidate for lectureship in plant ecology
5 Mar: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Hongxing He
11 Mar: 9:40-15:30 MERGE workshop – Phosphorus and Nitrogen interactions in ecosystem models
12 Mar: No Tuesday meeting due to workshop the day before
19 Mar: AiroPlant meeting – Maria Wittemann: Photosynthetic thermal acclimation in four contrasting tropical tree species
26 Mar: AiroPlant meeting – Planning and discussions
2 Apr: AiroPlant meeting – Håkan Pleijel: The Scandinavian mountain range – a short introduction (presentation for BioDiversa kickoff meeting)
9 Apr: AiroPlant meeting – TBA
16 Apr: AiroPlant meeting – Myriam Mujawamariya: Climate sensitivity of tropical trees along an elevation gradient in Rwanda
23 Apr: AiroPlant meeting – Myriam Mujawamariya: Halftime seminar
30 Apr: AiroPlant meeting – Mattias Lindholm: PhD thesis pre-presentation and defence
7-8 May: SDG meeting arranged by BECC/Merge in Gothenburg
14 May: AiroPlant meeting – Shubhangi Lamba: Acclimation impacts on carbon and water fluxes of Norway spruce
21 May: AiroPlant meeting – Johan Uddling: Loss of stomatal control is a major contributor to ozone-induced declines in tree water use efficiency
24 May: PhD dissertation, Mattias Lindholm
28 May: AiroPlant meeting – MSc pre-presentation by Amour Dondi: Beans and water-use efficiency, and by Sara Daun: Effects of ozone on protein concentrations and yield in wheat, rice, maize and soybean
4 Jun: AiroPlant meeting – No Tuesday meeting due to MSc thesis presentations
11 Jun: AiroPlant meeting – Håkan Pleijel: Mineral composition of urban tree leaves
18 Jun: AiroPlant meeting – Shubhangi Lamba: Acclimation impacts on carbon and water fluxes of Norway spruce
Fall 2018
21 Aug: Hello again!
28 Aug: Annual AiroPlant day at Gårdsjön
4 Sep: Paper discussion – “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Antropocene” by Steffen, Rockström et al.
11 Sep: Webpage updates + setting schedule for the fall
18 Sep: 15:00 AiroPlant meeting – Hongxing He: “Modelling phosphorous cycle in terresrtial ecosystems”
25 Sep: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Janine Wichmann (University of Pretoria): “Sub-Saharan African air pollution: a large but neglected problem”
2 Oct: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Hongxing He: “Simulating ectomycorrhiza in boreal forests: implementing ectomycorrhizal fungi model MYCOFON in CoupModel (v5)” (brief paper presentation)
9 Oct: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – TBA
16 Oct: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Håkan Pleijel: “CO2 effects on wheat – dose-response and meta-analysis”
23 Oct: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Shubhangi Lamba: “Physiological acclimation of Carbon fluxes: Application of MAESTRA model”
30 Oct: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – John Livsey & Stefano Manzoni (University of Stockholm): “Soil microbe-water interactions – Concepts and modelling” (Stefano); “Water efficient rice production – Trade-offs and sustainability” (John)
6 Nov: 14:00 AiroPlant Meeting – Danielle Way (University of Western Ontario): “Climate change impacts on boreal trees: from the greenhouse to the field”
13 Nov: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – TBA
20 Nov: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Mattias Lindholm: “The beatle fauna in Galterö – indicator species in heathlands”
27 Nov: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – TBA
4 Dec: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Maria Wittemann, Lasse Tarvainen, Johan Uddling and Göran Wallin report from field trips to Rwanda + Phytotron plans presented by Johan Uddling
11 Dec: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Lasse Tarvainen: “Tropical tree traits – results from Peru and Rwanda”
18 Dec: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Johan Uddling presents ERC proposal for feedback from the group
Spring 2018
9 Jan: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – planning
11 Jan: 13:15 PhD half-time seminar – Malin Broberg
Title: Ozone and carbon dioxide impacts on wheat crops: yield and grain quality
Place: Room 6 (Botan)
16 Jan: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Discussion and sharing of advice on ‘How to make quality proposals for Formas and VR’
23 Jan: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Per Erik Karlsson: Introducing a new indicator for nitrogen deposition to forest within the Swedish Environmental Quality Standards
30 Jan: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Åsa Kasimir (GVC): Forestry on drained fertile peat soil is a large source of greenhouse gases, possible to mitigate by wetland adapted plants
6 Feb: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Yansen Xu: Mesophyll conductance and biochemical capacity limitations of photosynthesis in popular trees under elevated ozone
13 Feb: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – TBA
20 Feb: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Lasse Tarvainen: Towards a unified framework for linking leaf and root traits in trees
27 Feb: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Mattias Lindholm: Power-line corridors as a heathland habitat for ground beetles and wolf spiders
6 Mar: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Johan Uddling: Crop quality under rising CO2
13 Mar: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Maria Wittemann: Acclimation of photosynthetical parameters to temperature in tropical tree species
20 Mar: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Shubhangi Lamba: Impact of physiological acclimation on carbon and water fluxes of Norway spruce
27 Mar: 13:15 PhD introductory seminar – Maria Wittemann
3 Apr: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Hans Alexandersson: Impact of bird sanctuaries on colonial breeding seabirds. Results from a long term monitoring program
10 Apr: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Bonaventure Ntirugulirwa: Suitability of different indigenous tree species in different regions of Rwanda with respect to their climate and climate change sensitivity
17 Apr: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Aloysie Manishimwe: Biomass allocation in tropical montane tree species in response to temperature, water and nutrients
24 Apr: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Jenny Klingberg & Håkan Pleijel: Clean the air with plants – field measurement campaign in Gothenburg
1 May: (Holiday, no meeting)
8 May: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – cancelled
15 May: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Håkan Pleijel: Ozone impacts on crop yield and food security – an overview
22 May: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting –
Ina Kyselova: Effects of atmospheric factors versus soil factors on spruce forest water balance, observations and CoupModel simulations
Emil Cienciala
29 May: 14:30 AiroPlant meeting – Solomon G. Gebrehiwot: Hydrology of the Upper Blue Nile
4 Jun: 14:00 – Bonaventure Ntirugulirwa: PhD project presentation
5 Jun: BioEnv day (no AiroPlant meeting)
12 Jun: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – TBA
19 Jun: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – TBA
Fall 2017
5 Sept: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Linnea Hansson, SLU Uppsala
Annemieke, publication presentation + fika
12 Sept: BECC Carbon Cycle theme meeting in Lund
13 Sept: BECC Ecosystem Services Theme meeting in Halmstad
14 Sep: 13:30 – Master thesis presentation Daniel Ganszky’s entitled: Climate sensitivity of tropical trees along an elevation gradient in Rwanda
Room 5 Botan building
19 Sep: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – discuss BECC proposals
26 Sep: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Håkan Pleijel, publication presentation + fika
3 Oct: 14:00 Airoplant meeting – Johan Uddling about three new projects and networks
10 Oct: 14:00 Airoplant meeting – Göran Wallin about BECC application
Malin Broberg, publication presentation + fika
17 Oct: 14:00 Airoplant meeting – Annemieke Gärdenäs briefing on recent publication and master thesis projects
24 Oct: 14:00 Airoplant meeting
31 Oct: 14:00 Airoplant meeting
14 Nov: 14:00 Airoplant meeting – Mattias Lindholm
21 Nov: 14:00 Airoplant meeting – Myriam Mujawamariya, Climate change sensitivity of photosynthesis and respiration in tropical trees
28 Nov: 14:00 Airoplant meeting – Filip Moldan, predicting DOC concentrations in lakes based on water residence time
Håkan, Johan and Malin, short report from research visit to Beijing
5 Dec: 14:00 Airoplant meeting – Håkan Pleijel, new FORMAS project “Clean the air with plants – can PAH exposure be reduced with urban vegetation?”
12 Dec: 14:00 Airoplant meeting – Robert Björk, Dept Earth Sciences
19 Dec: 14:00 Airoplant meeting – Ulf Molau, IPCC and IPBES
Spring 2017
10 JAN: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting -Tage Vowles pre-dissertation
17 JAN: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Scheduling spring term
20 JAN: 10:00 – Dissertation Tage Vowles
Title: “The influence of herbivory on shrub expansion in the Scandes forest-tundra ecotone”
Location: Big lecture hall, Botan building
Jan 31: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Lasse Tarvainen
Feb 7: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Paper discussion, Åslög Dahl responsible
Feb 14: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting
Feb 21: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Annemieke Reurslag Gärdenäs, recent paper
Feb 28: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – TBA
Mar 7: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Paper discussion, Per Erik Karlsson responsible
Mar 14: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Johan Uddling, crop CO2 responses (or proposal idea)
Mar 21: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Mika (student with Åslög)
Mar 28: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Sofie Hellsten, IVL, Nitrogen and agriculture in the Nordic countries – causes and effects, measures and recommendations.
Apr 4: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Paper discussion, Göran Wallin responsible
Apr 11: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Giulia Vico (SLU), photosynthesis temperature response
Apr 25: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – paper discussion (Åslög)
May 2: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Håkan Pleijel, tree rings
May 9: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – – Linnea (student with Annemieke)
May 15-18: Expert workshop in Hindås: Ozone Impacts on Food Security in Rapidly Developing Countries: Concerns and Possible Solutions – final activity of Gina Mills (CEH Bangor) guest professorship in the AiroPlant group, funded by the Adlerbertska foundation.
May 16: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Marina
May 18: Plant Fascination Day
May 23: AiroPlant day (Jonsered)
May 30: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – TBA
Jun 13: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Janina Konarska
Jun 20: 14:00 AiroPlant meeting – Ylva van Meeningen (Lund), BVOC emissions and photosynthesis in trees along a latitudinal gradient in Europe.
Fall 2016
11 OCT: 14:00 – AiroPlant meeting – Gina Mills (ozone and global food security)
18 OCT: 14:00 – AiroPlant meeting – Per Erik Karlsson (phenology of deciduous trees in northern Europe)
25 OCT: 14:00 – AiroPlant meeting – LITERATURE DISCUSSION (paper selected by Gina Mills)
31 OCT: 15:00 – Nordenskjöld lecture
Title: The hidden threat to global food security from ozone pollution
Speaker: Prof. Gina Mills, centre For Ecology & Hydrology, natural Environment Research Council, Bangor, UK
Location: Nimbus, Geovetarcentrum, Guldhedsgatan 5A, Gothenburg
1 NOV: 14:00 – AiroPlant meeting – Malin Broberg
8 NOV: 14:00 – AiroPlant meeting – Johan Uddling (tree shade-tolerance)
15 NOV: 14:00 – AiroPlant meeting – Håkan Pleijel
22 NOV: 14:00 – AiroPlant meeting – TBA
29 NOV: 14:00 – AiroPlant meeting – Karin Johansson
6 DEC: 14:00 – AiroPlant meeting – Martin Persson (Chalmers)
9 DEC: 10:00 – Dissertation: Brigitte Nyirambangutse
Title: Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Afromontane Tropical Forests at Different Successional Stage
Location: Big lecture hall, Botan building
13 DEC: 14:00 – AiroPlant meeting – Airoplant website
20 DEC: 14:00 – AiroPlant meeting – Shubhangi Lamba (MAESTRA modelling)
