Johannes Cunow

Doctoral Canditate
Umeå University, Department of Ecology, Umeå SE
[email protected]
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keywords:

Terrestrial Plant Ecology, Root Dynamics, Soil Processes, Temporal Soil Ecology, Greenhouse Gas Fluxes, Herbivory, Reindeer, Snow Cover Changes, Image Processing

Papers:

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Conferences:

• 2023_09 CIRC Symposium
  • Abisko, Topic: Spatial Root Response to Reindeer Grazing in Northern Boreal Forests
• 2024_02 EcoClimate Workshop
  • Oulanka, Topic: Fine-Coarse-Stem Continuum under Snow Cover Changes and functional parallelism & Intra- and Interseaonal Root Dynamics under Reindeer Grazing and Snow Cover Changes in Boreal Ecosystems
• 2024_03 Nordic OIKOS 2024
  • Lund, Topic: Spatial Root Response to Reindeer Grazing in Northern Boreal Forests
• 2024_12 BES Annual Meeting
  • Liverpool, Topic: Qunatifying Minirhizotron's Internal Root Prevalence Bias. A simple Problem, A simple calibration solution. Call to Action!
• 2025_05 EGU General Assembly
  • Vienna, Tpoic: Snow depth shapes aboveground but not belowground phenology during snowmelt, influencing carbon exchange in a northern boreal peatland
  • [https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-2050]

Funding & Grants:

• 2023 INTERACT
• 2024 Stiftelsen JC Kempe Minnes Stipendiefond
• 2025 J C Kempes Akademiska fonder I och II
• 2025 Peat Needs 2025 - Peatland ECR Action Team
• 2025 Stiftelsen Gunnar och Ruth Björkmans fond för norrländsk botanisk forskning

Teaching/TA

• 2023 Autumn Analysis of Field Data, Data analysis and statistics in R with examples from ecological studies
• 2023 Autumn Naturens mångfald, Sampling methodology in the field and species identification
• 2024 Autumn Analysis of Field Data, Data analysis and statistics in R with examples from ecological studies
• 2024 Autumn Naturens mångfald, Sampling methodology in the field and species identification
• 2024 Autumn Biologi baskurs I, Field excursion learning about abiotic and biotic conditions and species assembly
• 2024 Autumn Artkunskap och systematik, plant and insect identification
• 2025 Autumn Artkunskap och systematik, plant and insect identification

Third Cycle Education and specializing courses

• 2023 Root Literature Course, Umeå SE
• 2024 Oral Presentation, Umeå SE
• 2023 Introduction to research ethics, Umeå SE
• 2024 Swedish for Academics 1, Umeå SE
• 2023 Techniques for environmental sampling, field and laboratory measurements and next-generation sequencing in microbiome studies, Oulanka Reseach Station FI, Oulu University
• 2024 Grazing and herbivory with focus on domestic ruminants and semi wild herbivores, Uppsala SE, SLU
• 2024 Stable Isotope Tools in Earth System Science, Gothenburg SE, University of Gothenburg
• 2025 Soil Ecology, Wageningen NL, WUR
• 2025 Go Belowground, Nové Hrady CZ, Czech Academy of Sciences

Ongoing Projects:

• Spatial Root Response to Reindeer Grazing in Northern Boreal Forests

  Description: Describing the vulnerability of roots to heavy reindeer grazing and the horizontal and vertical shifts of fine root biomass and root traits in Finnish oligotrophic pine forests
  status: manuscript
  

• RootScanR (previously MinirhizotronR) R package

  Description: Enables a quasi-continuous depth analysis of Minirhizotron root scans in R Features include: creating continues depth mapping, quantifying rotational bias, estimate root diameter distribution, calculate root kimura root length, accessible skeletonization algorithm, deep drive trait estimation, root angle distribution. status: CRAN submission soon

• PhenoLink

  Description: Continued Observation of Above- and Belowground Phenology Linkage to Carbon Exchange in Spring with Varying Snow Cover and Reindeer Grazing status: Sampling completed, Data Analysis, Manuscript writing
  

• Intra- and Interseaonal Root Dynamics under Reindeer Grazing and Snow Cover Changes in Boreal Ecosystems

  Description: Multiyear study of root dynamics using the Minirhizotrons in a sedge fen and pine forest status: Sampling ongoing, Data Analaysis

• Fine-Coarse-Stem Continuum under Snow Cover Changes and functional parallelism

  Description: Combining stem dendrometer, root dendrometer, and minirhizotron methodology to assess temporal dynamics of stem, coarse- and fine roots. status: test instruments deployed

• Methane Effective Root Traits

  Description: Predicting root methane effective traits across plant communities and their upscaling potential under localized hydrological influence status: sampling campaign 2025