EcolChange events
12. November 2019 – EcolChange PhD conference “EcolChange in World of Synergies“ (link to web page); Voore puhkekeskus. Organizers: the Centre of Excellence EcolChange (link to blog post)
4. May 2018 – Biotic interactions and biodiversity patterns accross scales (link to web page); Omicum, Tartu. Organizers: Department of Botany of the University of Tartu, the Doctoral School of Earth Sciences and Ecology and the Centre of Excellence EcolChange
22-24. November 2017 – Plant Phenotyping Forum: integrating European plant phenotyping community (link to web page); Tartu, Organizer: EMPHASIS
26-29. June 2017 – Woody Root 7: 7th International Symposium on Physiological Processes in Roots of Woody Plants (link to web page); Venue: OMICUM, Tartu; Organizer: Unversity of Tartu
EcolChange seminars
Here is the constantly updated chronological list of EcolChange seminars, plus other events related to our Centre of Excellence.
2020
10. December at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Tanel Vahter “Fungal diversity in Estonian agricultural soils”
26. November at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Timo Maran “Semiotics in Ecology and Environmental Studies”
5. November at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Eveli Otsing “Tree species effects on fungal richness and community structure”
29. October at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Giacomo Puglielli “The abiotic stress tolerance space of woody species”
22. October at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Siim-Kaarel Sepp “Responses of soil eukaryotic communities to land use and host identity”
15. October at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Marina Semchenko “Plant-soil feedbacks: current trends and known unknowns”
8. October at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Triin Reitalu “Reconstructing past plant diversity with the help of pollen data”
5. March at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Silvia Lotman “Estonian Fund for Nature and everyones’ nature conservation“
27. February at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Aurele Toussaint “Global functional spectra of plants and vertebrates“
2. March at 12.00 in Kreutzwaldi 5-D143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Collins Agho “High genotypic and phenotypic diversity of Phytophthora infestans in Pskov region, North-West Russia”
20. February at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Jonne Kotta “Climate change, human impacts and marine ecosystems“
17. February at 12.15 in Ravila 14A, Chemicum (auditorium 1019), Tartu; Teppo Rämä “Arctic marine fungi, their ecology and potential for biotechnological applications“
17. February at 12.00 in Kreutzwaldi 5-D143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Rajendra Prasad Ghimire “Biogenic VOC emissions from boreal trees – effects of biotic and abiotic stress factors” and Linda-Liisa Veromann-Jürgenson “The anatomical basis of mesophyll conductance in gymnosperms”
13. February at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Sabrina Träger “Landscape genetic analysis of Primula veris in Estonian alvar grasslands“
3. February at 12.00 in Kreutzwaldi 5-D143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Wuyuntana “Comparison of the kinetics and magnitude of biogenic volatiles emission between “living fossil” Selaginella and “modern plant” Nicotiana“
29. January at 16.00 in JG Granö seminar room (Vanemuise 46-327), Tartu; Ivika Ostonen & Biplabi Bhattarai“Subarctic grassland ecosystem’s response to warming“ (by Ivika) and “Functional adaptation of root-rhizobiome in warming grassland” (by Biplabi)
2019
18. December at 16.00 in JG Granö seminar room (Vanemuise 46-327), Tartu; Ülo Mander, Jaan Pärn & Kuno Kasak “AGU 2020 – Experiences, Insights and New Trends in Earth Sciences Around the Globe“
2. December at 12.00 in Kreutzwaldi 5-D267 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; José Ángel Morales Sánchez “Oenothera drummondii: an invasive plant species threatening coastal ecosystems” & Upasana Sharma “Assessment of potential of lichens as bioindicator of pollution gradient in Mirzapur, Sonbhadra regions of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India”
28. November at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; John Davison “The realised niches of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi”
27. November at 16.00 in JG Granö seminar room (Vanemuise 46-327), Tartu; Rauno Lust “Enhancing nitrate removal from waters with low organic carbon concentration using bioeletrochemical systems“
18. November at 12.00 in Metsamaja (Kreutzwaldi 5), Tartu; Elina Karron “Influence of growing technologies to microfungy abundance and community on cereal grains and soil; and production of mycotoxins“
11. November at 12.00 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Colin Averill “Forests and Their Fungi: Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and the Future of Earth“
20. October at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Jiska van Dijk “Human-wildlife conflicts or human-human conflicts – what’s in the name?“
17. October at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Alexandre Fruleux “Belowground interspecific interactions in European temperate forests“
10. October at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Enn Lust “Development of hydrogen infrastructure and fuel cells/electrolysers for sustainable energetics”
3. October at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Adam Frew “How do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi impact belowground herbivores?“
6. June at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Chun-Neng Wang “Over-dispersion of flower colour assembly due to possible competitions for pollinators in alpine community of Taiwan“
27. May at 14.00 in Kreutzwaldi 5-D143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Dmitrii Krasnov “Exchange processes between the ground surface and the atmosphere: profile method “
16. May at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Jeanalle Eck “Genotype-specific microbes shape plant disease and diversity: from Panama to Plantago“
13. May at 14.00 in Kreutzwaldi 5-D143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Chikodinaka Okereke “Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) induced by abiotic stress in tropical plant (Carica papaya L.)” & Liisa Kübarsepp “Deeper into the stomatal functioning – relations between stomata and the epidermal cells”
29. April at 14.00 in Kreutzwaldi 5-D143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Valentina Zolotarjova: “Nitrogen change in agricultural plants during growth stages”
25. April at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Guillermo Bueno “Plant mycorrhizal traits: from concepts to applications“
11. April at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; John Clarke “Polyploidy, historical expectations and habitat shifts: revealing macroevolutionary dynamics underpinning half of vertebrate diversity”
8. April at 14.00 in Kreutzwaldi 5-D143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Merili Toom and Keyvan Esmaeilzadeh Salestani: “Selecting winter cover crop species for Estonian conditions” & “Impact of Farming Systems on Barley Nutrient Use Efficiency”
4. April at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Anne Kull “Struggling over nature”
28. March at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Piibe Piirma & Taavi Suisalu “I Hybrid Practice. Art and Science in Artistic Research // II Art and Science: flirt, data fiction and poetic encounters”
14. March at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Veljo Kisand “Paleoecology: an aDNA prespective“
7. March at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Andras Zlinszky “Airborne LIDAR for mapping habitat conservation status, biodiversity and ecosystem services”
4. March at 14.00 in Kreutzwaldi 5-D143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Hanna Hõrak “Transcriptional regulator NPR1 protects young leaves from SA-induced damage during bacterial infections”
21. February at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Kairi Kreegipuu “Mismatch negativity – a window to the brain”
14. February at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Elin Org “Host-gut microbiota interactions and metabolic traits in mice and human“
18. February at 14.00 in Kreutzwaldi 5-D143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Hassan Y. Sulaiman “Hemiboreal forest under the heat wave”
4. February at 14.00 in Kreutzwaldi 5-D143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Alisa Krasnova “Gas exchange response to biotic stress in Agricultural plants”
10. January at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Marc-André Selosse “A case study of plant-fungal cointroduction: a pantropically introduced tree was followed by pseudovertically transmitted mycorrhizal fungi” & Benoît Perez-Lamarque “Constraints on the emergence of cheating mycoheterotrophic plants in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis“
21. January at 14.00 in Kreutzwaldi 5-D239 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Ragnar Viikoja “The Impact of Farming System on the Expression of Wheat Genes Involved in Nitrogen Assimilation”
2018
11. December at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Paul Ashton “Let the grass grow and the genes flow! Lessons learned from research into hay meadow vegetation”
11. December at 10.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Björn Lindahl “Symbiotic decomposition in boreal forest soils”
20. November at 16.00 in Vanemuise 46-327 (J.G.Granö auditorium), Tartu; Martin Novak “Isotope constraints on N2-fixation and denitrification in Central European peatlands” + presentations by PhD students: Alisa Krasnova, Thomas Schindler, Mohit Masta
15. November at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Andres Metspalu “From biobanking to personalized medicine”
7. November at 16.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Melissa McCormick “The fungal half of the mycorrhizal equation: how fungi affect orchid population dynamics”
25. October at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Ebe Merilo “Stomatal regulation of crops”
17. October at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Bengt-Gunnar Jonsson “Coping with the loss of the last – the Scandinavian Green Belt and boreal forest green infrastructure in the northern Sweden”
04. October at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Nele Ingerpuu “Some new trends in bryology”
24. September at 10.15 in Kreutzwaldi 2A41 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Thomas D. Sharkey “Auxiliary pathways of the Calvin-Benson cycle”
07. June at 09.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Robin Pakeman “Thirty years of change for Scottish coastal vegetation ”
05. June at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Catherine (Kitty) Gehring “Root-associated fungi influence host response to climate change and invasive species”
29. May at 10.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Borja Jimenéz-Alfaro “The biogeography of plant communities”
24. May at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Leonardo Magalhães “Amazonian biodiversity linked to past and current human influence”
21. May at 10.15 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Kaia Kask “Measurements in Australia: what and why?”
16. May at 13.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Robert Szava-Kovats “Conservation biology: a suitable habitat for cognitive bias”
07. May at 10.15 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Ivo Voor “The field pea yield and nitrogen balance depending different fertilizer rates”
03. May at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Ignacio M. Hernández Agramonte “Importance of historical and present landscape structure on the provision of individual ecosystem services”
26. April at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Alar Astover “R&D activities in Chair of Soil Science at the Estonian University Life Sciences”
23. April at 10.15 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Ragnar Viikoja “The impact of stress on the yield of wheat in different farming systems”
19. April at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Riin Tamme “Global patterns in plant traits”
12. April at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Inga Jüriado “Relationships between mycobiont identity, photobiont specificity and ecological preferences in the genus Peltigera (Ascomycota)”
09. April at 10.15 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Dmitrii Krasnov “Spatial heterogeneity of the soil in mixed forest”
26. March at 10.15 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Liisa Kübarsepp “Stomatal kinetics and anatomy of ferns and horsetails”
22. March at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Kadri Koorem “Biotic interactions of range-expanding plant species”
20. March at 16.15 in Vanemuise 46-334, Tartu; Ülo Mander & Jaan Pärn “Global laughing gas balances of organic soils“
15. March at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Marika Mänd “Pollinators in plant protection: hazards and utility possibilities”
01. March at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Aveliina Helm “Everyone’s nature conservation – what it is and why it is needed?”
26. February at 10.00 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Silvano Fares “Bi-directional fluxes of ozone and BVOC in Mediterranean forest ecosystems”
22. February at 14.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Üllas Erlich “Economic evaluation of non-market values of nature”
12. February at 10.15 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Alisa Krasnova “Methane fluxes at SMEAR Estonia: from soil to the atmosphere”
2017
14. December at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Mohammad Bahram “Microbial biogeography in the light of molecular data”
07. December at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Mait Metspalu “The nature of human genetic diversity and reconstructions of the past”
06. December at 16.15 in Vanemuise 46-327, Tartu; William J Mitsch “The Role of Wetlands in Mitigating Pollutants in Our Landscape and Globe“
06. December at 9.00 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Linda-Liisa Veromann-Jürgenson “Mesophyll conductance in gymnosperms: causes and consequences”
27. November at 16.15 in Vanemuise 46-327 (J.G.Granö auditorium), Tartu; Guntis Brūmelis “Conservation biology of the noble broadleaved tree stands in Latvia
23. November at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Andy Taylor “Scotland’s forgotten Kingdom”
16. November at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Annika Meitern “Daily dynamics of xylem sap properties and plant hydraulic traits in hybrid aspen”
09. November at 15.00 in Vanemuise 46-246, Tartu; Timo Sipilä “Genomics of yeast Taphrina betulina, a causative agent of Witch’s Broom disease of silver birch”
09. November at 14.15 in Vanemuise 46-246, Tartu; Kim Yrjälä “Microbial ecology of Finnish peatlands”
09. November at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Sten Anslan “Handling high-throughput sequencing data in metabarcoding studies”
08. November at 9.00 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Chicodinaka N. Okereke “Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) induced by abiotic stress in tropical plants (Carica papaya L., Amaranthus hybridus L., A. cruentus L, Abelmoschus esculentus L., Telfairia occidentalis L. etc.)”
02. November at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Lauri Laanisto “Intraspecific trait variability – what, why, and maybe even a little how”
01. November at 16.15 in Vanemuise 46-327 (J.G.Granö auditorium), Tartu; Lei Yang “Comparison Analysis of Blue Carbon Sink Effects between Salty Constructed Wetlands and Natural Coastal Wetlands Vegetated with Mangroves”
27. October at 11.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Gordon McNickle “Plant foraging games: scaling from resource uptake strategies to communities and ecosystems”
25. October at 9.00 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Shuai Li “Key role of stomatal conductance in controlling ozone uptake, leaf injury and volatile release”
19. October at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Andres Kraas “Marketing of Estonian industrial heritage”
12. October at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Sabrina Träger “Species richness, heterogeneity and nitrogen contribution of roots along an arctic elevation gradient”
09. October at 10.00 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Joao Carlos Bespalhok “The production chain of sugarcane in Brazil: from plant to bioethanol“
05. October at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Alexei Tiunov “Using stable isotope analysis (SIA) to decipher the structure of soil food webs”
02. October at 10.00 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Valentina Zolotarjova “Introduction to NMS (Nonmetric multidimensional scaling)”
21. September at 13.00 in OMICUM (Riia 23b, Tartu); Conference of the Centre of Excellence EcolChange: Ecology of GlobalChange: Natural and Managed Ecosystems
14. September at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Vigdis Vandvik “Integrating experimental and gradient approaches to climate change impacts on plant populations and communities”
25. May at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; J. Peter W. Young “Do bacteria have species?”
23. May at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Andreas Prinzing “Do good neighbors compensate for bad climate?” & Mathieu Santonja “Plant diversity mitigates the negative effects of climate change, via soil biota and litter decomposition”
18. May at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Alar Rosentau “Sea-level change and early coastal settlements in Eastern Baltic”
11. May at 16.15 in Ülikooli 17, Tartu; Lander Baeten “Plant biodiversity change in the Anthropocene – the value of multiple-site community resurvey data”
4. May at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Francis M. Martin “Unearthing the roots of mycorrhizal symbioses”
27. April at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Ave Suija “The Lichen as a Microcosm”
20. April at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Tsipe Aavik “Landscape genetics of plants: examples from semi-natural grasslands”
23. March at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Robert Szava-Kovats “Beta-diversity: can we make Eggs Benedict from a dog’s breakfast?”
16. March at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Ülo Mander “Man-made alterations of nitrogen cycling: global and regional consequences”
9. March at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Carlos P. Carmona “Trait probability densities: probabilistic hypervolumes in ecology and beyond”
2. March at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Arne Sellin “Growth of northern deciduous trees under increasing atmospheric humidity: possible mechanisms behind the growth retardation”
16. February at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Marju Himma: “Communicating science”
17. January at 11.15 in Kreutzwaldi D-143 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Jörg-Peter Schnitzler: „Population dynamics in a plant (tansy)-aphid-ant system influenced by chemotypic variations in terpenes emitted from storage pools“
2016
15. December at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Arvo Tullus “Does competition between trees modify their response to climate change?”
6. December at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Monique Smith “Galadriel’s gift: soil legacies in grassland restoration”
25. November at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Aveliina Helm “Does competition between trees modify their response to climate change?”
15. November at 13.15 in Kreutzwaldi 5–2C5 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Miniconference about SMEAR and EcolChange (link to more information)
15. November at 16.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Stefano Loppi “Noah’s ark and lichens: a story to be told (jumping between air pollution, agriculture, monuments and cancer)”
10. November at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Karen Hansen “Phylogenetic assessment of Pezizomycetes”
3. November at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Kristjan Zobel “Why most of our research finding are probably false?”
3. November at 13.15 in Kreutzwaldi 5–D239 (Metsamaja, EMÜ), Tartu; Zorica Svircev “The role and importance of cyanobacteria found in biological loess crusts” (link to a blog post about that seminar)
27. October at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Leho Tedersoo “Spatial distribution of mycorrhiza types”
20. October at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Jüri Allik “WHY animals. including humans, need PERSONALITY?”
11. October at 16.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; David Gowing “British floodplain meadows and the ecological niche”
6. October at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Mats Wedin “Sex and violence in the symbiotic world of lichens”
29. September at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; Aurèle Toussaint “The functional diversity and its vulnerability of freshwater fish at the global scale”
22. September at 15.15 in Vaga seminar room (Lai 40), Tartu; David Garcia de Leon “Co-occurence and dispersal limitation of AM plants and fungi during secondary succession”
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