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 - July
Fieldwork
July 2014
In the first half of the July, members from our working group were occupied with field work on Muhu and Saaremaa islands. We worked in different successional stages of alvar grassland to study the covariation of fungi and plants and dispersal limitation of seeds and spores. We collected data about plants and gryptogams – lichens and mosses. We also took soil and root samples to identify the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community in the studied sites and set up seed traps for seed dispersal study.
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