03.03.2020 – University of Tartu Landscape Biodiversity Group

October 6, 2021

A review article about the joint effects of host plant genetic diversity and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities on restoration success

Tsipe and Sabrina published a review paper in Functional Ecology in collaboration with the colleagues from the Plant Ecology Group…

September 21, 2021

Estonian wide test area network fieldwork started this summer

This year we created Estonian wide test area network called ECOGRID, which included different natural and semi-natural habitats in both…

September 10, 2021

An autumn seminar with Macroecology workgroup took place

On September 3, a joint seminar was held between our workgroup and the Macroecology workgroup. This time, due to the…

July 1, 2021

A new article was published with Aveliina and Elisabeth as co-authors

A new scientific article titled “Traits as determinants of species abundance in a grassland community” was published in the Journal…

June 20, 2021

People peeked into almost 400 000 flowers during the cowslip campaign

The citizen science campaign ‘Looking for Cowslips’ organized by our work group is finished for this year. During the campaign,…

June 17, 2021

The final report of ELME project is now published

The final report of the National Assessment and Mapping of Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services (ELME) project was published. Aveliina and…

June 17, 2021

Aveliina participated in the opening event of the Estonian Environmental Development Plan

On June 15, the opening event of the Estonian Environmental Development Plan (KEVAD) took place, where Aveliina from our working…

June 15, 2021

A research article on the genetic diversity of cowslips was published

Iris, Tsipe, Aveliina and co-authors published a research paper examining the effects of landscape change on the genetic diversity of…

June 11, 2021

ESP Europe 2021 conference took place

Elisabeth, Aveliina, Elvi, Triin and Iris took part in the annual ESP (Ecosystem Service Partnership) Europe conference, which was organized…

June 8, 2021

Aveliina gave a speech on the future of nature conservation

On June 3, Aveliina gave a speech in Paide within the framework of the “33 speeches” action of the Paide…

June 8, 2021

Students defended their theses

On June 1, students from our work group virtually defended their theses in Department of Botany. Elina Kambrimäe defended her…

June 1, 2021

Tsipe and Iris took part in PopBio conference

The annual Plant Population Biology conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland of 2020 was postponed to…

May 14, 2021

Cowslip campaign is expanding over Europe

The citizen science campaign “Looking for cowslips” organized by our working group is expanding across Europe this year. With the…

March 17, 2021

New members of the work group

Several new people have joined our work group in recent months. Kertu Hool has been working in nature conservation communication…

March 1, 2021

The Estonian soil database EstSoil-EH has launched

The EstSoil-EH database has launched, which contains Estonian soil information and landscape parameters that provide additional information on, for example,…

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