Description
Highlighting the value of ecotrons - inside the future climate - ecosystems in ecotrons. This session explores how ecotrons and other controlled-environment facilities enable precise manipulation of global change drivers-such as elevated CO₂, warming, drought, and nutrient inputs-to reveal ecosystem functioning and resilience under future climate scenarios.
Keywords: mesocosms, ecotrons, metatrones, enclosed facilities
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Nadia Soudzilovskaia (Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium)30/09/2026, 08:30Oral
Highlighting the value of ecotrons - inside the future climate - ecosystems in ecotrons. This session explores how ecotrons and other controlled-environment facilities enable precise manipulation of global change drivers-such as elevated CO₂, warming, drought, and nutrient inputs-to reveal ecosystem functioning and resilience under future climate scenarios.
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Pauline Sophie Rummel (Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium)30/09/2026, 09:00Session 4: Experimental Approaches to Global Change EcologyOral
European heathlands are unique natural landscapes, providing a wide range of ecosystem services, however ongoing climate change threatens plant health and ecosystem functioning. Without conservation management, heathlands would slowly be replaced by successional forests. However, under high N deposition, heather (Calluna vulgaris) dieback has been followed by increased growth of pioneer...
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Archana Manjunath (Middle East Technical University- Institute of Marine Sciences)30/09/2026, 09:15Session 4: Experimental Approaches to Global Change EcologyOral
Coastal lake ecosystems are vulnerable to climate warming and consequent salinity changes driven by seawater intrusions. Microbial loop is an important component of coastal food webs and plays a crucial role in carbon cycling within these lakes. However, little is known about how microbial communities respond to environmental stressors associated with climate change. Bacteria, heterotrophic...
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François Rincon (SETE, CNRS)30/09/2026, 09:30Session 4: Experimental Approaches to Global Change EcologyOral
In this presentation, I will first present the research possibilities offered by the experimental ecology facilities of the Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station of (SETE) Moulis, from the terrestrial and aquatic metatrons part of ANAEE France to microcosms, greenhouse, animal facilities, molecular and microbial labs supporting the scientific project conducted on the metatrons. I will...
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Vincent Leemans (Terra - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech - Université de Liège)30/09/2026, 09:45Session 4: Experimental Approaches to Global Change EcologyOral
The aim of the next Terra-Ecotron experiment, ECO³, is to assess short term and long term effect of the climate change on the crops and on the agro-ecosystem in general. This require to follow the plants development and to record the evolution in soil biology, chemistry and hydrology during a period of height years. But there are few, height, Controlled Environent Rooms (CERs) available and...
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Hans De Boeck (University of Antwerp)30/09/2026, 10:00Session 4: Experimental Approaches to Global Change EcologyOral
The Antwerp FATI is an experimental facility designed to study changes in precipitation and temperature in open air conditions. Precipitation is controlled by a combination of automated rainout shelters and programmable drip irrigation, while infrared heaters can be used to impose various levels of warming (up to +10 °C). On top of that, researchers can add further treatment factors (plant...
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Prof. TN Mikkelsen (DTU Sustain, Technical University of Denmark)30/09/2026, 10:15Session 4: Experimental Approaches to Global Change EcologyOral
Background and objectives
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Global tropospheric ozone concentrations have increased over the past two to three decades, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, tropical regions, and rapidly developing areas such as East Asia and India. Absorbed ozone can negatively affect plant growth by generation internal oxidative stress. Light is important for plant growth and can in theory modify ozone... -
Qiaoyan Li (Department of plant and environmental sciences, University of Copenhagen, Taastrup, Denmark)30/09/2026, 10:30Session 4: Experimental Approaches to Global Change EcologyOral
Long-term ecosystem experiments are essential for capturing immediate responses to environmental change, assessing ecosystem resistance and resilience, and identifying persistent legacy effects. At the AnaEE experimental facility Brandbjerg (CLIMAITE) in Denmark, we investigated how elevated atmospheric CO₂ and prolonged drought altered ecosystem carbon and nitrogen dynamics.
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Jacopo Manzini (IRET-CNR)Session 4: Experimental Approaches to Global Change EcologyPoster
Tropospheric ozone (O₃) is one of the most important air pollutants affecting urban and peri-urban vegetation, particularly in the Mediterranean region, where climatic conditions favor its formation and accumulation. Traditional ozone risk assessment methods, such as the concentration-based AOT40 index, do not account for the actual uptake of ozone by plants. Flux-based approaches, including...
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Hans Frederik Engvej Hansen (Global Wetland Center, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen)Session 4: Experimental Approaches to Global Change EcologyPoster
Accurate quantification of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is essential for evaluating the climate impacts of agricultural systems. However, methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N₂O) fluxes often exhibit substantial temporal variability that may not be captured by conventional manual chamber campaigns, which are typically conducted during daytime hours and at relatively low sampling frequencies....
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