Tag Archives: forest ecosystems
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 (11th November, Thursday): Ülo Mander and Jaan Pärn about greenhouse gas fluxes in wetland soils, tree stems and canopies
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speakers: Prof. Ülo Mander, PhD Jaan Pärn (Department of Geography, University of Tartu) Title of the talk: Greenhouse gas fluxes in wetland soils, tree stems and canopies Time: Thursday, 11 November 2021 at 14.15 Place: Tartu, Lai … Continue reading
Excursion to EcolChange experimental sites
On 13th October, the EcolChange Coordinating Committee together with some colleagues gathered in Järvselja to visit three experimental sites. First stop was at the Agali experimental site run by the Ecotechnology and landscape biogeochemistry team (Prof. Ülo Mander, Assoc. Prof. … Continue reading
New publications about carbon in plant leaves
Originally posted in Ülo Niinemet’s Lab blog. Text by Ülo Niinemets Carbon, C, is the most frequent chemical element in plant leaves, but leaf carbon content is a surprisingly understudied plant trait. Modern elemental analyzers typically give estimates of nitrogen, … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar: Jan Pisek about leaf angle distribution and if it can be considered a species-specific trait
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Dr. Jan Pisek is an Associate Professor in Remote Sensing at Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu. His research interests include field- and space-based multi-spectral and multi-angle optical remote sensing, biophysical … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar: Evelyn Uuemaa about global digital elevation models and Global Forest Change dataset
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Dr. Evelyn Uuemaa is an Associate Professor in Geoinformatics at the University of Tartu. Her research interests evolve around the interactions of land use/land cover and water quality, landscape changes and geospatial … Continue reading
New publication – The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment
Originally published in emu.ee site (link). Nature: Don’t hope mature forests to soak up carbon dioxide emissions Globally, forests act as a large carbon sink, absorbing a substantial portion of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Whether mature forests will … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Colin Averill about forest fungi and the future of the Earth
Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Dr. Colin Averill is a Senior Scientist at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where he studies how the soil microbiome affects forest carbon sequestration and forest community ecology. Title of the … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Alexandre Fruleux about belowground interactions in the forests
Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Alexandre Fruleux is Post-doctoral researcher at Department of Botany, Tartu University in the team of adaptive ecology of agricultural landscapes (led by Dr. Jaan Liira). Title of the talk: … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Bengt-Gunnar Jonsson about the forest cover changes in Scandinavia
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Bengt-Gunnar Jonsson is Professor of Plant Ecology at Mid Sweden University. His research focuses on forest history and dynamics and its role in maintaining forest biodiversity. He has played an … Continue reading
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