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EcolChange seminar: Carlos Pérez Carmona about mapping and exploring the functional spectra across the tree of life
Seminar of the Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Dr. Carlos Pérez Carmona is an Associate Professor in the Macroecology workgroup at the University of Tartu. He is combining analytical tools with experimental approaches to study variation in … Continue reading
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Tagged 2021, Carlos Carmona, EcolChange seminar, fine roots, functional diversity, functional traits, global scale, plants, vertebrates
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EcolChange seminar – Aurèle Toussaint about traits on global scale
Seminars of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Aurèle Toussaint is a research fellow in the Macroecology group at the University of Tartu. He is working on the functional diversity and its vulnerability in a context of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, animals, Aurele Toussaint, EcolChange seminar, functional traits, global scale, plant ecology
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EcolChange seminar – Guillermo Bueno about plant mycorrhizal traits
Seminars of Department of Botany, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences and Ecology and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Guillermo Bueno is research fellow at the Plant Ecology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Tartu University. He explores how biotic interactions shape plant … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019, biotic interactions, EcolChange seminar, functional traits, Guillermo Bueno, mycorrhiza, plant ecology, symbiotics
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New publication – Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities
Text by Martin Luther University in Halle via EurekaAlert /Ed: This new macroecological paper includes Meelis Pärtel and Ülo Niinemets from EcolChange as coauthors./ Which plant species grow where, alongside which others – and why? The diversity of global vegetation … Continue reading
New publication – Conceptual differences lead to divergent trait estimates in empirical and taxonomic approaches to plant mycorrhizal trait assignment
Text by Guillermo Bueno How plant mycorrhizal traits are estimated? As plant trait measurements are increasingly available, more complete plant trait datasets are compiled allowing to formulate more mechanistic and complex questions in plant ecology. One of the plant functional … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018, functional traits, Guillermo Bueno, Maret Gerz, Mari Moora, Martin Zobel, mycoecology, mycorrhiza
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New publication – Acclimation of Fine Root Systems to Soil Warming: Comparison of an Experimental Setup and a Natural Soil Temperature Gradient
Text by Kaarin Parts Global warming is predicted to impact high-latitude and high-altitude forests severely, jeopardizing their overall functioning and carbon storage, both of which depend on the warming response of tree fine root systems. This paper investigates the effect … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018, climate change, Ecosystems, fine roots, forest ecosystems, functional traits, Ivika Ostonen, Kaarin Parts, Leho Tedersoo, mycorrhiza, Picea, roots, spruce
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EcolChange seminar – Riin Tamme about global patterns in plant traits
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Riin Tamme is researcher in the team of macroecology at the Department of Botany. Title of the talk: Global patterns in plant traits Time: Thursday, 19. April 2017 at 15.15 Place: … Continue reading
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New publication – Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions
Text by Lauri Laanisto Seems like macroecology has finally arrived to a crossroads where it might split so fundamentally, that two or more new disciplines will emerge. Finding global patterns, that would explain the world in one graph, like JH … Continue reading
New publication – Ancient environmental DNA reveals shifts in dominant mutualisms during the late Quaternary
Text by Martin Zobel, Mari Moora & John Davison Using ancient DNA, it is possible to study the species and communities that inhabited past landscapes. However, finding more or less intact ancient DNA is challenging because DNA degrades quickly. One … Continue reading
New paper published – Niche differentiation and expansion of plant species are associated with mycorrhizal symbiosis
Text by Maret Gerz Mycorrhizal symbiosis affects the realized niches of plant species Mechanisms of coexistence has fascinated ecologists for a long time and one of the proposed ways is minimizing competition by niche differentiation. According to this, to coexist, … Continue reading