Tag Archives: biodiversity
EcolChange seminar (16th December, Thursday): Kadri Runnel about sustaining the habitat value of protected old forest fragments
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Dr. Kadri Runnel (Institute of Zoology, University of Tartu) Title of the talk: How to sustain the habitat value of protected old forest fragments? Time: Thursday, 16 December 2021 at 14.15 Place: virtual … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar (25th November, Thursday): Enrico Tordoni about the threatened tetrapod diversity in the Anthropocene
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Dr. Enrico Tordoni (Department of Botany, University of Tartu) Title of the talk: Tetrapod diversity in jeopardy in the Anthropocene Time: Thursday, 25 November 2021 at 14.15 Place: Tartu, Lai 40-218 (mandatory for … Continue reading
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
EcolChange seminar: Jhonny Capichoni Massante about phylogenies in ecology
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Jhonny Capichoni Massante is a PhD student at the University of Tartu who will defend his PhD thesis in May. Title of the talk: Phylogenies in ecology: overview, applications, and … Continue reading
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
EcolChange seminar – Eveli Otsing about the richness patterns of trees and fungi
Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Eveli Otsing is a PhD student in our Department in the Ecology of Biological Interactions workgroup. Her research aims to shed more light onto the connections between trees (i.e. … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Siim-Kaarel Sepp about soil biota and land use
Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Siim-Kaarel Sepp is a PhD student at the Plant Ecology workgroup of our Department of Botany. His research focuses on mycorrhizal fungi, in particular the impact of land use … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Triin Reitalu about historical plant diversity analysis based on pollen data
Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Dr. Triin Reitalu is senior researcher at the Institute of Geology at Tallinn University of Technology. She works on the functional and phylogenetic diversity in sedimentary pollen and plant … Continue reading
New publication – Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition determines the competitive response of two grassland forbs
Anyone can name at least a couple of factors affecting plant growth, be it climate (drought, flooding, hail) or the presence of organisms feeding on plants (birds, insects, mammals, or plant diseases). Some might even think of the nutrients found … Continue reading
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