My main research interest is chemical ecology of boreal trees. I have worked extensively on how environmental changes, including elevated levels of temperature, CO2, ultraviolet- and ionizing radiation, light intensity,and nitrogen, affect the levels of phenolic defenses. In addition to trees, I have also studied various species of higher plants and lichens from both forests and arctic-alpine ecosystems. I am also interested in how plant- and fungi derived compounds contributes to the carbon storage in soils, and how trees influence the belowground microbiome. The last years I have also been involved in projects looking at the effects of light quality and temperature on tree phenology.

I received my PhD from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in 2003, for which I looked at UV-screening in arctic-alpine higher plants and lichens. Subsequently, I got a personal post doc grant from the Norwegian Research Council (NRC) on lichen compounds. These three years I spent largely at NMBU, and had six months stay at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF, Joensuu). I was later employed at UEF for three years as a university researcher, looking at climate change effects on dioecious tree species. From 2011 I have been employed a NMBU, first as associate professor, and from 2015 as a professor in forest ecology.

Find me on ResearchGate:

researchgate.net/profile/Line_Nybakken

Forskningsprosjekter:

https://www.nmbu.no/forside/en/projects/ecoforest

https://www.nmbu.no/forside/en/projects/forests4society