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Aud Helen Halbritter Rechsteiner

Researcher
  • E-mailaud.halbritter@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 22 49
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    Thormøhlensgt. 53 A/B
    5020 Bergen
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    Postboks 7803
    5020 Bergen
Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2023). Plant traits and associated data from a warming experiment, a seabird colony, and along elevation in Svalbard. Scientific Data. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Bryophytes dominate plant regulation of soil microclimate in alpine grasslands. Oikos. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Bootstrapping outperforms community-weighted approaches for estimating the shapes of phenotypic distributions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Three decades of environmental change studies at alpine Finse, Norway: climate trends and responses across ecological scales. Arctic Science. 430-450.
  • Show author(s) (2022). The role of plant functional groups mediating climate impacts on carbon and biodiversity of alpine grasslands. Scientific Data. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming. Ecological Monographs. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Close to open—Factors that hinder and promote open science in ecology research and education. PLOS ONE.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Multiscale mapping of plant functional groups and plant traits in the High Arctic using field spectroscopy, UAV imagery and Sentinel-2A data. Environmental Research Letters. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology. 3110-3144.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Consistent trait-environment relationships within and across tundra plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 458-467.
  • Show author(s) (2021). A reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data and metadata. Ecological Informatics. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Understanding ecosystems of the future will require more than realistic climate change experiments – a response to Korell et al. Global Change Biology. e6-e7.
  • Show author(s) (2020). The altitudinal patterns of plant diversity and grazing intensity in subalpine-alpine meadow of western Sichuan, China. 应用与环境生物学报. 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature. Global Change Biology. 6616-6629.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Plant traits and vegetation data from climate warming experiments along an 1100 m elevation gradient in Gongga Mountains, China. Scientific Data. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Next‐generation field courses: Integrating Open Science and online learning. Ecology and Evolution. 3577-3587.
  • Show author(s) (2020). From a crisis to an opportunity: Eight insights for doing science in the COVID‐19 era and beyond. Ecology and Evolution.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Biotic rescaling reveals importance of species interactions for variation in biodiversity responses to climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 22858-22865.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Adding value to a field-based course with a science communication module on local perceptions of climate change. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America.
  • Show author(s) (2019). The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx). Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 22-37.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Transplants, open top chambers (OTCS) and gradient studies ask different questions in climate change effects studies. Frontiers in Plant Science. 1-9.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Intraspecific Trait Variation and Phenotypic Plasticity Mediate Alpine Plant Species Response to Climate Change. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Greening up the mountain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 833-835.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Plastic and genetic responses to shifts in snowmelt time affects the reproductive phenology and growth of Ranunculus acris. Perspectives in plant ecology, evolution and systematics. 62-70.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Local adaptation at range edges: comparing elevation and latititudinal gradients. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 1849-1860.
  • Show author(s) (2013). How comparable are species distributions along elevational and latitudinal temperature gradients? Global Ecology and Biogeography. 1228-1237.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Testing assumptions of the Enemy Release Hypothesis: Generalist versus specialist enemies of the grass Brachypodium sylvaticum (Huds.) P. Beauv. Mycologia. 34-44.
Report
  • Show author(s) (2022). Effect of nitrogen,temperature and grazing on above and below-ground productivity of alpine ecosystem. .
Lecture
  • Show author(s) (2023). Plant functional groups mediate climate effects on mesofauna abundance and community composition.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Mitigation effects of grazing on climate change impacts in alpine grasslands.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Carbon fluxes in alpine grasslands.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Targets package - pipeline tool for data science in R.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Standardized methods and distributed experiments to understand global change impacts on alpine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Open, Reproducible, and Transparent Science in Ecology.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Open Science in teaching and supervision.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Best practices for accessible and reproducible code.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Education X open science workshop.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Integrating experiments and gradient approaches to study climate impacts on ecosystems.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Does intraspecific trait variability contribute to plant community resistance to warming in high Arctic island ecosystems?
  • Show author(s) (2018). Mosses - the regulating blanket of alpine grasslands?
  • Show author(s) (2017). Plastic and genetic responses to shifts in snowmelt time affects the reproductive phenology and growth of Ranunculus acris.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Climate change effects on phenology in alpine plant communities.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2023). Three decades of environmental change studies at alpine Finse, Norway: responses across ecological scales  .
  • Show author(s) (2023). The way forward: teaching and learning traits in a FAIR Open Science world.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Living Norway Course on Open, Reproducible and Transparent Science in Ecology.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Can grazing mitigate global change impacts in alpine ecosystems.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Reproduction and pollination in bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) along elevational gradients in western Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Could grazing be the answer to the climate change induced loss of carbon storage in alpine grasslands?
  • Show author(s) (2022). Can grazing mitigate global change impacts in alpine ecosystems?
  • Show author(s) (2021). Structure and function of alpine grassland under changing environment.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Standardized methods and distributed experiments to understand global change impacts on alpine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Response of Alpine Meadow in Western Sichuan to Shrub Invasion.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Can grazing mitigate global change impact on alpine ecosystems.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Applying and promoting Open Science in ecology - survey drivers and challenges.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Understanding community assemblage using species and functional diversity across elevational gradients from the tropics to the arctic.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Taking FAIR and open science to the field - The evolution of the PFTC field course.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Going high: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning along some of the world’s most striking altitudinal gradients OR how a plant functional traits course travelled three continents and counting.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Data collection on biodiversity and carbon fluxes responses to warmer climate, nitrogen deposition and grazing – the first field season (Three-D project).
  • Show author(s) (2020). Community assemblage and functional diversity across elevational gradients from the tropics to the arctic.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Climate change and novel interaction effects on alpine vegetation: a meta-study on global scale.
  • Show author(s) (2019). The handbook for standardised field measurements in terrestrial global change experiments.
  • Show author(s) (2019). THREE-D Startup meeting - Integrated assessment to aid mitigation of negative impacts by THREE global change Drivers on alpine biodiversity and ecosystem function.
  • Show author(s) (2019). THREE-D Startup Meeting China - Integrated assessment to aid mitigation of negative impacts by THREE global change Drivers on alpine biodiversity and ecosystem function.
  • Show author(s) (2019). THREE-D - Integrert vurdering for å redusere negative effekter av tre menneskelige påvirkninger på alpin biologisk mangfold og økosystem funksjon.
  • Show author(s) (2019). THREE-D - Integrated assessment to aid mitigation of negative impacts by THREE global change Drivers on alpine biodiversity and ecosystem function.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Functional group interactions mediate climate change impacts on the Carbon dynamics and Biodiversity of alpine ecosystems.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Carbon in coastal heathlands and semi-natural grasslands. A LandPress, FunCaB and Three-D perspective .
  • Show author(s) (2018). Using experimental macroecology to assess climate change impacts on plants.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Trait differentiation and adaptation in plants along elevation gradients. .
  • Show author(s) (2018). Ecosystem responses and feedbacks to climate change - lessons from terrestrial ecology?
  • Show author(s) (2018). Built-in insulation; plant functional groups regulate soil conditions in alpine grasslands.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Konsekvenser av klimaendringer: Hva skjer når fjellplanter flyttes til et varmere og våtere klima? .
  • Show author(s) (2017). Integrating experimental and gradient approaches to study CC impacts on plants.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Eco-climatological experiments in the field and in the laboratory.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Climate change effects on phenology in alpine plant communities.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Climate change effects on phenology in alpine plant communities.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Climate change effects on phenology in alpine plant communities.
  • Show author(s) (2014). Local adaptation at the edge: comparing elevation and latitudinal gradients.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Responses of ruderal plant populations to latitudinal and elevational temperature gradients.
Masters thesis
  • Show author(s) (2022). How three global change drivers affect the carbon dynamics of alpine grasslands.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Effect of Climate Warming on Alpine Soil Decomposition in Western Norway Using the Tea Bag Index and soil respiration along an altitudinal gradient .
  • Show author(s) (2020). The effects of livestock grazing on semi-natural grassland communities along an elevational gradient in Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2020). The effects of livestock grazing on semi-natural grassland communities along an elevational gradient in Norway.
Software
  • Show author(s) (2023). traitstrap: Bootstrap Trait Values to Calculate Moments.
Database
  • Show author(s) (2023). PFTCourses, Elevational Gradient, Bird Cliff and ITEX Experiment, Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
  • Show author(s) (2023). OSF data repository for PFTC3, Puna project and PFTC5 - PFTCourses, Elevational Gradient, Puna Project and Fire Experiment, Wayquecha, Peru.
  • Show author(s) (2022). The role of plant functional group interactions in mediating climate change impacts on the carbon dynamics and biodiversity of alpine ecosystems.
  • Show author(s) (2020). PFTCourses Elevational Gradient and TransPlant Experiment, Gongga Mountain, China.
Popular scientific article
  • Show author(s) (2020). Kan utmarksbeite bidra til økt biologisk mangfold og karbonlagring i framtida? Sau og geit. 46-50.
Poster
  • Show author(s) (2024). Three decades of environmental change studies at alpine Finse, Norway: responses across ecological scales.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Plant Functional Traits Courses: Hands-on training in Plant Functional Traits ecology.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Fire and Elevation affect Plant Communities and Functional Traits in Peruvian Puna Grasslands.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Effect of warming on carbon fluxes in alpine grasslands.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Carbon fluxes response to warming in alpine grasslands.
  • Show author(s) (2019). The mountain TransPlant Network.
  • Show author(s) (2018). A Culturally Competent Course‐Based Research Experience (CRE) for Graduate Students.
Digital learning tools
  • Show author(s) (2022). PFTC Teaching Material.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Data collection.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Git and GitHub.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Enough R to write a thesis.
Errata
  • Show author(s) (2020). Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life (Nature Ecology & Evolution, (2020), 4, 3, (294-303), 10.1038/s41559-020-1109-6). Nature Ecology and Evolution. 662.
Academic literature review
  • Show author(s) (2022). Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems. Arctic Science. 572-608.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 294-303.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Trait differentiation and adaptation of plants along elevation gradients. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 784-800.
Website (informational material)
  • Show author(s) (2019). Plant Functional Traits Courses Hands-on training in Plant Functional Traits ecology.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Halbritter, A.H., Alexander, J.M., Edwards, P.J., Billeter, R. (2013). How comparable are species distributions along elevational and latitudinal temperature gradients? Global Ecology and Biogeography22 (11): 1228–1237.

Halbritter, A.H., Carrol, G., Güsewell, S., Roy, B.A. (2012) Testing assumptions of the Enemy Release Hypothesis: Generalist versus specialist enemies of the grass Brachypodium sylvaticum(Huds.) P. Beauv. Mycologia104 (1): 34-44.