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EcolChange seminar (28th October, Thursday): Catrin Westphal about integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into cropping systems and agricultural landscapes

Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Prof. Catrin Westphal (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Title of the talk: Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into cropping systems and agricultural landscapes Time: Thursday, 28 October 2021 at 14.15 Place: virtual seminar in Zoom … Continue reading

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EcolChange seminar: Eve Veromann about ecosystem services and RNAi technology in the service of sustainable agriculture

Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Prof. Eve Veromann is a Professor at the Chair of Plant Health at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. Her research focuses on the implementation of ecosystem services for the sustainable … Continue reading

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EcolChange seminar: Marcel van der Heijden about microbiome engineering for a sustainable agriculture

Seminar of the Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Marcel van der Heijden is a professor at the University of Zurich and at the Swiss Centre of excellence for agricultural research Agroscope. In his research Prof. van der … Continue reading

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EcolChange seminar – Tanel Vahter about fungal diversity in cropfields

Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Tanel Vahter is a PhD student in the Plant Ecology group in our Department, Tartu University. His research focuses on the application of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for vegetation restoration … Continue reading

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EcolChange seminar – Ebe Merilo about stomatal regulation of crops

Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Ebe Merilo is senior researcher at the Institute of Technology, University of Tartu. Title of the talk: Stomatal regulation of crops Time: Thursday, 25. October 2018 at 15.15 Place: Tartu, … Continue reading

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EcolChange seminar – Alar Astover about soil R&D

Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Alar Astover is professor of soil science at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. Title of the talk: R&D activities in Chair of Soil Science at the Estonian University … Continue reading

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EcolChange seminar – Maarika Mänd about pollinating strawberries

Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Prof. Marika Mänd is head of the Chair of Plant Health at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. Title of the talk: Pollinators in plant protection: hazards and utility possibilities … Continue reading

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EcolChange seminar – Ülo Mander about the consequences of man-made changes to nitrogen cyclon

Seminar of the Centre of Excellence EcolChange Ülo Mander is professor at the Department of Geography, University of Tartu. Man-made alterations of nitrogen cycling: global and regional consequences Time: Thursday, 16. March 2017 at 15.15 Place: Tartu, Lai 40-218 (Vaga … Continue reading

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