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Laura Louise Turner
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Researcher at Stockholm U, interested in plant roots, traits and belowground dynamics in Arctic, alpine and permafrost environments. PhD at U Nottingham. 🏔️❄️🌲🍄🔎
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We also saw lots of wildlife, including snowy owls and an arctic fox, all in the middle of changing to their winter coats, and a (blurry) wolf. We also got up close with the permafrost! To find out more the nature and people of the region see: www.gwichin.ca/publications...
The landscape of more southerly Northwest Territories, with a winding river and many small lakes, seen from our plane window Moose hoof prints in the gravel road north of Inuvik A single white root visible in the cracked frozen soil core removed from the ground. The frozen soil is dark in colour, suggesting high organic content. A blurry gray face of a wolf peeking through the scrub at the side of a gravel road. Their dark nose, eyes, and inner ears stand out in the green and gray.
September 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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I am very grateful to have been able to work in and explore the landscape around Inuvik, in the traditional land of the Inuvialuit, Gwich’in and Metis peoples. The tundra colours always take my breath away and I was excited to learn a bit about the traditional names uses of some plants too.
Flowering paintbrush/ prairie fire species Castilleja, I think, not sure which one! A yellow orange sky under heavy cloud lit from behind, with shrubs and tall, skinny spruces in the foreground. Up close look at the bright red, orange and green leaves of the dwarf shrub mid-autumn senescence. Betula glandulosa, łuu t’an in the Teełit dialect, can be used as flooring/ insulation. A pale yellow/pink cloudberry or salmonberry (nakál or nakal in Gwichya and Teetłit dialects) framed by its leaves, changing from green to bright red, and surrounding Rhododendron tomentosum (formerly Ledum palustre, lidii maskeg/maskig/masgit in both Gwich’in dialects) and Vaccinium vitis-idaea (Natł’at in Gwichya and Teetłit dialects). Info from Gwich’in ethnobotany. Very tasty
September 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Many people have highlighted the need for integrated approaches to find solutions to these huge global challenges, of which the rhizosphere can play a significant role. A very insightful meeting, lots to think about and apply to new research questions…
June 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Revisiting the root economics space—its applications, extensions and nuances advance our understanding of fine-root functioning - Plant and Soil
Background and aims Fine roots and their traits determine resource uptake from the soil, thus being fundamental for plant and ecosystem functioning. It has been five years since the concept of the roo...
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June 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Yes I said excited and exciting and used multiple exclamation marks! I am compensating for a lack of coffee that is now being rectified! Also I have mushrooms on trousers and I’m excited about that too!! 🍄🍄‍🟫
June 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM