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
Trip to Öland
July 2016
Phd students and young scientists of the Botany and Geology institutes made a joint excusion to Sweden. Europe´s biggest alvar grassland ("Stora Alvar") on the swedish island Öland impressed botanists as well as geologists. Such easy and interesting interdisciplinary projects should be definitely repeated.
Trip to NW Estonia
July 2016
Summertime is the time for excursions and fieldwork! On 13th-14th of July, the team members of the plant ecology group, led by Martin Zobel, went to North-West Estonia and examined dry pine forests, wetland succession towards raised bogs, coastal areas as well as the high variety of berries Estonian forests have to offer in summer.
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