Tag Archives: soil
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
Soil biodiversity training school
/Here´s an announcment about slightly EcolChange-related soil biodiversity training school that will take place in Tartu in January. But it´s important to stress out that the registration deadline is already on 15th of December!/ COST Action “KEYSOM” – 3rd … Continue reading
Not one, but two seminars: Björn Lindahl about symbiotic composition in boreal soils & Paul Ashton about genes and grasses in meadow
Seminars of Department of Botany, Doctoral School of Earth Sciences and Ecology and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker1: Prof. Björn Lindahl is based at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. He is visiting the Department of Botany to act … Continue reading
New paper out – Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome
/Editor´s note: It´s been silence in the blog throughout summer, as we all had a lot of field and lab work. But we´re back now!/ The first global study of soil genomics revealed a battle right under our feet. The … Continue reading
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
EcolChange seminar – Ülo Mander and Jaan Pärn about the global laughing gas balances of organic soils
Seminar of Department of Geography and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speakers: Ülo Mander is the professor of Physical Geography and Landscape Ecology in the University of Tartu, Estonia. Jaan Pärn is is postdoctoral research fellow at Keele University and the … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Kadri Koorem about biotic interactions in range-expanding plant species
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Speaker: Kadri Koorem is postdoctoral researcher of Tartu University at NIOO-KNAW, The Netherlands. Title of the talk: Biotic interactions of range-expanding plant species Time: Thursday, 22. March 2017 at 15.15 … Continue reading
New publication – More bang for the buck? Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities be characterized adequately alongside other fungi using general fungal primers?
Text by Maarja Öpik How to measure things? How to measure biodiversity? For organisms which are visible to human eye, detecting them is not an issue, though identifying the species might be. The situation is fully different for organisms we … Continue reading
EcolChange seminar – Alexei Tiunov about using stable isotope analysis to decipher the structure of soil food webs
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange Oct. 5th and discussion with early career scientists Oct. 6th Alexei Tiunov is head of Laboratory of Soil Zoology, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution in Moscow, Russia. In … Continue reading
Two EcolChange seminars this week with three presenters – Prinzing/Santonja/Young
Seminar of Department of Botany and Centre of Excellence EcolChange This week we have not one, but two EcolChange seminars: First, on Tuesday, 23. May 2017 at 15.15 in Tartu, Lai 40-218 (Vaga auditorium) Andreas Prinzing will do a presentation … Continue reading
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