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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 - January

Lab work in Brazil

January 2014

In the second half of January, our working group members Maret Gerz and Teele Jairus visited UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) in Brazil. During their stay they analysed the root samples collected in December as a part of the pilot study.  

Lab work in Finland

January 2014

In the second half of January, our PhD student Lena Neuenkamp is going to visit Finnish METLA Forestry Research Institute. In cooperation with Dr Minna Männisto, she will use fatty-acid analyses to study if and how AM fungal abundance changes in alvar soils which are in different successional stages (see the gallery of the study sites). 

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