Eveline (Eva) Krab, PhD
(Researcher)

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Staff at the Department of Soil and Environment

Email: eveline.krab@slu.se

Research Summary

My main interests are to understand how environmental changes may induce changes in soil organism communities and to assess the consequences of community changes for soil processes. More specifically, I am interested to what extent environmental changes affect interactions between soil fauna, microorganisms and plants, and if changed interactions may lead to changes in carbon and nitrogen cycling. Most of my current projects are situated in arctic ecosystems, but I have recently been expanding my research into the boreal forest.

I try to answer my research questions using different approaches at different scales, e.g. in the laboratory, using mesocosms and small scale field experiments, and by larger-scale field sampling campaigns. Recent work includes i) studying the effects of thawing permafrost and changes in frost-induced soil mixing on carbon and nitrogen dynamics, ii) how alterations in (winter)climate and shrub expansion may affect soil invertebrates and their contribution to ecosystem processes and iii) effects of earthworm invasions into the subarctic. Also I am involved in a project optimizing sampling strategies for soil microorganisms and the development of molecular methods for assessing soil fauna diversity.

Collaborators

Ellen Dorrepaal, Umeå University

Jonatan Klaminder, Umeå University

Gesche Blume-Werry, University of Greifswald

Signe Lett, University of Copenhagen

Emily Pickering-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen

Maria Väisänen, University of Oulu

Konstatin Gavasov, EPFL Lausanne

Sylvain Monteux, SLU Uppsala

I am a part of the Soil Biology group at the Department of Soil and Environment lead by Prof. Björn Lindahl.

In my current projects I collaborate with researchers at SLU Uppsala, Umeå University, University of Copenhagen, University of Oulu, VU University Amsterdam, University of Tromsö, University of Greifswald and EPFL (Lausanne).

Principal Investigator

Eveline Krab

Collaborator

Björn Lindahl, SLU Uppsala, björn.lindahl@slu.se

Postdoc

Sylvain Monteux, SLU Uppsala, sylvain.monteux@slu.se

FundinG

2018-2021, Formas 2017-01182

Current Projects

Our Projects

Living soils in the future arctic: Impacts of decomposer interactions on carbon emissions from a micro- to landscape scale

The arctic region not only provides us with beautiful sceneries that sustain reindeer husbandry and harbour unique biodiversity; it provides one of its most important services by storing about twice the amount of carbon that is currently in the atmosphere in its soils. Climate warming will most likely stimulate the release of a large part of the carbon from these soils, which may reinforce climate warming.