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Sonya is a Researcher working in Global Change Ecology at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is currently part of the research project, which focuses on the the underappreciated roles of dwarf-shrubs in responding to and influencing global climate in high latitude ecosystems. In particular, she is examining variation in dwarf-shrubs physiological and growth responses to climate, and their impacts on local microclimate conditions, and assessing how these outcomes can be used to parameterize dwarf-shrubs as a new plant functional type within a terrestrial ecosystem model. This links to her prior work as a PostDoc at ���ϳԹ���Դ in the research group, which is trying to better understand the terrestrial ecosystem-climate interactions of alpine and arctic systems. Here, her role was to improve our process based understanding of these relationships by synthesizing across observational and experimental research approaches. Sonya is also actively involved in projects relating to invasive species, plant thermal tolerance, and establishing frameworks for how we assess adaptive capacity of species. Additionally, she has a keen interest in ensuring primary research is synthesized into policy reports and decisions at both national (VKM) and international levels (IBPES Invasive Species Report).

Sonya undertook her PhD at , studying with Professor  in the . Her PhD involved working as part of a collaborative project which was conducting a comparative ecological study on phenotypic plasticity in water use traits, using a multi-site, multi-species design. In addition to this, she also investigated Australian alpine plant ecology, in particular, responses to increasing temperatures, and reduced water availability across elevational gradients.

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• IPBES (Contributing Author) (2023). IPBES thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control. Chapter 3: Indirect and direct drivers affecting the introduction, establishment and spread of invasive alien species (3.1.1.1, 3.2.2.3, 3.3.1.6., and 3.4.4).

• Jones, S.C., Geange, S.R., Hanea, A., Camac, J., Hemming, V., Doobov, B., Morgan, J., Leigh, A., and Nicotra, A.B. (2023). IDEAcology: Streamlining elicitation of expert judgement in ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution

• Keetz, L, Lieungh, E., Karimi-Asli, K., Geange, S.R., Gelati, E., Tang, H., Yilmaz, Y., Aas., K.S., Athuizen, I., Bryn, A., Falk, S., Fisher, R., Fouilloux, A., Horvath, P., Indrehus, S., Lee, H., Parmentier, F.J.W., Pirk, N., Vandvik, V., Vollsnes, A., Skarpaas, O., Stordal, F., Tallaksen, L. (2023) Mechanistic ecosystem modelling made easy: the NorESM Land Sites Platform. Global Change Biology

• Gya, R., Birkeli, K., Dahle, I.J., Foote, C.G., Geange, S.R., Lynn, J.S., Töpper, J.P., Vandvik, V., Zernichow, C. and Jenkins, G.B. (2023). Registered Reports: A new chapter at Ecology & Evolution. Ecology and Evolution

• Gya, R., Geange, S.R., Lynn, J.S., Spindelböck, J., Zernichow, C., Wallevik, Ø., and Vandvik, V. (2023). To germinate or not to germinate – A test of local adaptation to drought in alpine forb populations across a 2000 mm/year precipitation gradient. Ecology and Evolution

• VKM, Kausrud, K., Vandvik, V., Flø, D., Geange, S.R. et al. (2022). Klimaendringer og virkninger på hovedøkosystem skog. Et norsk sammendrag basert på VKM Report 2022:15 Impacts of climate change on the boreal forest ecosystem. Vitenskapelig uttalelse fra faggruppen for fremmede organismer og handel med truede arter (CITES) i Vitenskapskomiteen for mat og miljø.

• Nicotra, A.B. Geange, S.R., Bahar, B., Carle, H., Catling, A., Garcia, A., Harris, R., Head, M., Jin, M., Keighley, X., Whitehead, M.R., Zurcher, H. and Beckmann, E.A. (2022) An innovative approach to using an intensive field course to build scientific and professional skills. Ecology and Evolution

• VKM (Kausrud, K, Vandvik, V., Flø, D., Geange, S.R.  et al. (2022). Impacts of climate change on the forest ecosystem. Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Alien Organisms and Trade in endangered species (CITES) of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment. VKM Report 2021:XX, ISBN: 978-82-xxxx-xxx-x, ISSN: 2535-4019.

• Vandvik, V., Althuizen, I.J.H, Jaroszynska, F.O.H., Krüger, L.C., Lee, H., Goldberg, D.E., Klanderud, K., Olsen, S.L., Telford, R.F., Östmann, S.A.H., Busca, S., Dahle, I.J., Egelkraut, D.D., Geange, S.R., Gya, R., Lynn, J.S., Meineri, E.P., and Halbritter, A.H. (2022). The role of Functional group interactions in mediating climate change impacts on the Carbon dynamics and Biodiversity of alpine ecosystems (FunCaB). Scientific Data

• Rixen et al. Geange, S.R., et al. (2022). Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra. Arctic Science

• Yannelli, F.A., Andrade, B.O., Anibaba, Q.A., Bazzichetto, M., Bonari, G., Chelli, S., Conradi, T., Ćuk, M., Damasceno, G., Fantinato, E., Geange, S.R., Guuroh, R.T., Holle, M.J.M., Küzmič, F., Lembrechts, J.J., Mosyaftiani, A., Pattison, Z., Šikuljak, T., Teixeira, J., Tordoni, E., Pérez-Valladares, C., and Sperandi, M. (2022). Fifteen emerging challenges and opportunities for vegetation science – A horizon scan. Journal of Vegetation Science

• Falster, D.S., et al. Geange, S.R., et al. (2021). AusTraits – a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora. Scientific Data

• Hennessy, E. Acabchuk, R., Arnold, P., Dunn, A., Foo, Y., Johnson, B.T., Geange, S.R, Haddaway, N., Nakagawa, S., Mapanga, W., Mengersen, K., Page, M.J., Sanchez-Tojar, A., Welch, V., and McGuinness, L. (2021) Ensuring Prevention Science Research is Synthesis-Ready for Immediate and Lasting Scientific Impact. Prevention Science

• Camac, J. S., Umbers, K. D. L., Morgan, J. W., Geange, S. R., Hanea, A., Slatyer, R. A., McDougall, K. L., Venn, S. E., Vesk, P. A., Hoffmann, A. A., & Nicotra, A. B. (2021). Predicting species and community responses to global change using structured expert judgement: An Australian mountain ecosystems case study. Global Change Biology, 00, 1– 15.

• Geange, S.R*., Arnold, P.A*., Catling, A., Coast, O., Cook., A., Gowland, K.M., Leigh, A., Notarnicola, R., Posch, B., Venn, S.E., Zhu, L. and Nicotra, A.B. (2021).  Plant thermal tolerance: a global synthesis for future research. New Phytologist

• Geange, S. R.*, Von Oppen, J*., Strydom, T.*, Boakye, M., Gauthier, T. L. J., Gya, R., Haldbritter, A.H., Jessup, L.H., Middleton, S.L., Navarro, J., Pierfederici, M. E., Chacon-Labella, J., Cotner, S., Farfan-Rios, W., Maitner, B.S., Michaletz, S.T., Telford, R.J., Enquist, B.J., and Vandvik, V. (2021). Next-generation field courses: Integrating Open Science and online learning. Ecology and Evolution.

• Labella, J.C*., Boakye, M., Enquist, B., Farfan-Rios, W., Gya, R., Halbritter, A., Middleton, S., von Oppen, J., Pastor-Ploskonka, S., Strydom, T. Vandvik, V., and Geange, S.R.* (2020). From a crisis to an opportunity: Eight insights for doing science in the Covid-19 era and beyond. Ecology and Evolution

• Geange, S.R., Briceno, V.F., Holloway-Phillips, M.M and Nicotra, A.B (2020). Aciphylla glacialis survival, growth and frost resistance: A warming experiment. Australian Journal of Botany

• Thurman LL., Stein BA., Beever EA., Foden W., Geange S.R., Green, N., Gross JE., Lawrence DJ., LeDee O., Olden JD., Thompson LM., and B Young (2020) Persist in space or shift in place? Evaluating the adaptive capacity of species to climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

• Nakagawa, S., Dunn, A., O’Dea, R., Page, M., Welch, V., Foo, Y., Kar, F., Geange, S.R, Arnold, P., Cooper, E., Mapanga, W., Hennessey, E., Kothe, E., Sanchez-Tojar, A., White, T., McGuinness, L., Bannach-Brown, A., Barrow, S., Westgate, M., and Haddaway, N. (2020). A New Ecosystem for Evidence Synthesis? Nature Ecology and Evolution

• Geange, S.R. (2019) Does the individual matter? Quantifying the role of intraspecific variation and phenotypic plasticity in plant responses to climate change. PhD Thesis. The Australian National University.

• Geange, S.R, Briceno, V.F, Aitken, N.C, Ramirez-Valiente, J.A., Holloway-Phillips, M.M and Nicotra, A.B (2017). Phenotypic plasticity and water availability: Responses of alpine herb species along an elevation gradient. Climate Change Responses

• Geange, S.R. (2013) The Worldwide Distribution of Heteronychus arator – Why should we care? AgResearch Internal Report

Sonya is currently working within the following projects:

- The underappreciated roles of dwarf-shrubs in responding to and influencing global climate

- Improving the representation of high-latitude ecosystems and their climate interactions in the Norwegian Earth System model (NorESM) by integrating data and knowledge from empirical ecosystem research in model parameterisation, development, and testing.

Other projects I am or have been involved with include: 

- Direct and indirect climate impacts on the biodiversity and Functioning of the UNDERground ecosystem

- Mechanisms underlying the success and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of range-expanding species under climate change

- Indirect climate change impacts on mountain plant communities

- International Plant Functional Traits Courses offer hands-on training in different applications of plant functional traits ecology within a real-life field research project setting