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
Scientist are planning to use AM fungi to restore plant species richness in alvar grasslands
January 2017
Our PhD student Tanel Vahter was interviewed by the newspaper Saarte Hääl. Tanel gave an overview of his experiments on the islands of Western-Estonia, where arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungi will be used for the restoration of alvar grasslands and wooded meadows.
COST Action ES1406 KEYSOM meeting
January 2017
Plant Ecology team together with Mari Ivask from Tallinn University of Technology Tartu College hosted a COST Action ES1406 KEYSOM (Soil fauna – Key to Soil Organic Matter Dynamics and Modelling) meeting from January 17 to 19th. There were participants from 24 countries discussing topics from fauna databases to soil food webs, biogeochemical processes, carbon modelling and of course soil arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biodiversity, our favourite.
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