Tag Archives: global scale
New article: Microbes of drying peatlands warm the climate
A mutual team of researchers from the Centre of Excellence EcolChange and external partners revealed the important link between microbes, drying peatlands and climate warming, recently published in Nature Communications (https://rdcu.be/cJaZ8). Read their press release: guest editors: Jaan Pärn, Mikk … 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
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 (30th September, Thursday): Leho Tedersoo about the global patterns in plant and fungal endemicity
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Leho Tedersoo is a Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies at the University of Tartu. He is one of the Highly Cited Researchers, being an author of multiple papers that rank in the … 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
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
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
New publication – Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity
Text originally posted in University of Queensland (link) Plants that break some of the ‘rules’ of ecology by adapting in unconventional ways may have a higher chance of surviving climate change, according to researchers from the University of Queensland and … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Jeanalle Eck about microbes that shape plant disease and diversity
Seminars of Department of Botany, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences and Ecology and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Jenalle Eck is post-doctoral researcher at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. She studies plant population and community ecology, with special emphasis on … Continue reading
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
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