Plant Ecology Laboratory
Research in our lab focuses on diversity patterns in biological communities, and on the interactions underlying these patterns. The main questions we address are: how do communities vary along natural gradients and gradients of human impact? What are the major assembly rules shaping communities; and are they attributable to biotic interactions or environmental heterogeneity? What are the roles of different biotic interactions - including competition, facilitation, herbivory and symbiosis - in structuring communities? Read more
News archive - February
Workgroup seminar
February 2015
This year’s seminar of Plant Ecology Lab took place on February 19-20 in Otepää. Participants of the seminar gave talks about their current as well as forthcoming projects. In addition to members of Plant Ecology Lab, Petr Kohout from Mycology workgroup and Isabel C Barrio from Herbivory Network participated in the seminar.
Visiting master student
February 2015
Our team was visited by master student Matthieu Charriere from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. His master thesis is about relationships of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their host plant species, supervised by Prof. Marc-André Selosse, Colin Fontaine and Marianne Elias (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France). During his stay with us, Maarja Öpik coordinated his activities.
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