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 - May
Conference in Zürich
May 2014
Our working group members Maarja Öpik, Maret Gerz and Lena Neuenkamp participated in the 33rd New Phytologist Symposium „Networks of Power and Influence: ecology and evolution of symbioses between plants and mycorrhizal fungi“ in Zürich (Switzerland) from 14th-16th May 2014. The conferences adressed the interaction between mycorrhizal fungi and plants as well as underlying mechanisms. As an invited speaker Maarja Öpik gave an overview of patterns of global diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi („Global diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities“). Maret presented with her poster „Plant community mycorrhization differentially affects plant species diversity in forests and grasslands“ that effects of mycorrhization do vary among ecosystems. With her poster „Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: key to grassland restoration“, Lena described which beneficial effects arbuscular mycorrhiza might have for grassland restoration.
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