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2019

  • An important status of arthropod diversity in the North Atlantic region led by Mark Gillespie is out in Ambio (April 2019)

  • The BITCue project awarded most original research idea of 2018 by DFF has officially startet (1 February 2019)

  • Welcome to Hjalte Mann - new PhD student in the lab (1 February 2019)

  • Congratulations to Sophie Kjeldgaard for passing her BSc exam on effects of ecological restoration on moth communities in Denmark (31 January 2019)

  • Exciting new paper on flower season dynamics of tundra plants led by Janet Prevey is out in Nature Ecology and Evolution (January 2019)

2018

  • Our new paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution show how a list of plant species can be used to predict richness of other taxa and OTU richness (3 September 2018)

  • Our new paper in Biological Conservation describes Uniquity as a biodiversity metric to quantify the rarity of communities (17 July 2018)

  • Thanks to Ashley Asmus for leading new paper on shrub shading effects on arthropod populations published in Ecological Entomology (4 July 2018)

  • Our special issue introduction paper on why tundra arthropods are important to study is out in Polar Biology (3 July 2018)

  • Paper on long-term variation in spider abundance published in Polar Biology (19 June 2018)

  • Congratulations to Maria Rasmussen for passing her BSc exam with glamour! (30 June 2018)

  • A new spider species (Oreoneta eskimopoint) for Greenland found by Jørgen Lissner in our samples. Discovery published in Norwegian Journal for Entomology (28 June 2018)

  • The BITCue project was funded from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (28 April 2018)

  • New results on long-term dynamics of Arctic arthropod communities published in Royal Society Open Science (18 April 2018)

  • The Villum Experiment project on automatic insect detection has officially started! (1 January 2018)

2017

  • Our Interdisciplinary study of human effects on Arctic shrub dynamics is out in Annual Reviews of Environment and Resources (20 October 2017)

  • Our first paper describing the Narsarsuaq arthropod sampling design is accepted with Polar Biology (7 September 2017)

  • UArctic endorses Network for Arthropods of the Tundra (NeAT) as thematic network (21 August 2017)

  • New paper on the sensitivity of Arctic bird and mammal species on shrub expansion published in Global Change Biology (21 July 2017)

  • Congratulations to Cecilie Mielec for passing her BSc project on spiders communities at Disko Island, West Greenland (30 June 2017)

  • Congratulations to Sidsel Langhein-Winther for passing her MSc project automated flower counts from images (30 June 2017

  • New paper out on rates of background herbivory across the tundra biome led by Isabel Barrio in Polar Biology (17 June 2017)

  • Distribution of the marsh fritillary linked to host plant abundance across Denmark - new study led by Ane-Kirstine Brunbjerg published in Biological Conservation (17 May 2017)

  • Welcome to Oskar Liset Pryds Hansen as new PhD student (1 May 2017)

  • Sarah Loboda has led an exciting analysis of long-term data on fly populations at Zackenberg now published in Ecography (17 April 2017)

  • New paper on the role of natural history museums in Arctic arthropod research published in Arctic Science (29 March 2017)

  • Congratulations to Jean-Claude Kresse for passing his BSc project on reproductive phenology in Arctic wolf spiders (31 January 2017)

  • New review paper on biotic interactions at Zackenberg published open access in Ambio (23 January 2017)

2016

  • New paper on plant phenology and phenotypic plasticity accepted in Ecology - Congratulations to former lab member Amy Iler! (7 December 2016)

  • New paper on spatial variation in climate sensitivity of arctic plants accepted in Global Change Biology - Congratulations to the ITEX network! (4 December 2016)

  • Thøger Henriksen successfully defended his MSc on demography of Euphydryas aurinia - Well done, Thøger! (25 November 2016)

  • The Høye lab hosted the 1st NeAT meeting with 50 participants from 12 countries! (16 November 2016)

  • Congratulations to Rikke for successfully defending her PhD thesis (14 November 2016)

  • Welcome to Sidsel Langhein-Winther, Mathias Groth Skytte and Kristian Moltsen Jakobsen all starting MSc projects in the lab (1 September 2016)

  • Congratulations to Andreas Niebuhr for succesfully defending his MSc on spider diversity in Greenland! (19 August 2016)

  • Toke co-authored a massive study on phenological sensitivity to climate published in Nature (14 July 2016)

  • Rikke published a paper on local variation in arthropod diversity in West Greenland in PeerJ - Congratulations, Rikke! (14 July 2016)

  • Toke contributed to a study of the patterns and drivers of vertebrate herbivore diversity in the Arctic published in Global Ecology and Biogeography. Press coverage at dr.dk (24 May2016)

  • Toke was involved in a new study in Ecography demonstrating how pollen transfer and linkage levels affect community-wide overlap of arctic flowering plants and their pollinators (23 March 2016)

  • Welcome to Thøger Henriksen starting as MSc student and Sidsel Langhein-Winther starting as BSc student in the lab both working on the Marsh fritillary butterfly system (1 February 2016)

  • Rikke has a paper out in Polar Biology on arthropod diversity in West Greenland - including a new spider species for Greenland - Excellent work, Rikke! (30 January2016)

  • Marianne Corvinius passed her BSc. exam - Congratulations, Marianne! (30 January2016)

2015

  • Toke was involved in a new study in Polar Biology linking phenology and demography across taxonomic scales (26 December 2015)

  • Nanna Lauridsen successfully defended her MSc thesis on demography of Marsh fritillary larvae - Congratulations! (4 December 2015)

  • Joe Bowden's paper was recommended by F1000Prime - Excellent, Joe! (20 October 2015)

  • The paper by Joe Bowden et al. on climate change and Arctic butterfly body size is out in Biology Letters. News feature on au.dk and Smithsonian - Congrats, Joe! (7 October 2015)

  • Paul CaraDonna publishes exciting new study on frost sensitivity in subalpine plants in Journal of Ecology - Well done, Paul! (18 September 2015)

  • Andreas Niebuhr joined the lab to study spider at the Narsarsuaq site - Welcome Andreas! (1 September 2015)

  • Marianne Corvinius joined the lab to study nectar resources for the Marsh Fritillary butterfly - Welcome Marianne! (29 June 2015)

  • Anne Eskildsen successfully defended her PhD - congratulations! (11 June 2015)

  • The paper by Anne Eskildsen et al. on butterfly richness changes in Denmark is Online Early at Diversity and Distributions, news features on au.dk and dr.dk - Great stuff! (27 May 2015)

  • Anne Eskildsen was awarded the young investigator award of the Danish Society for Natural History (den Schibby'eske præmie) - Well deserved, Anne! (24 April 2015)

  • NEAT - Network for Arthropods on the Tundra has started (2 April 2015)

  • Sarah Loboda is back in the lab during April and May (2 April 2015)

  • Giedre Belousova from Lithuania is doing an internship at our lab during February-April 2015 (4 February 2015)

  • Minna Mathiasson is visiting the lab from University of Maine, US during January-April 2015 (22 January 2015)

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