May 2020 – University of Tartu Landscape Biodiversity Group

January 10, 2022

Workgroup in annual summaries

At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, the press made summaries of 2021. Vikerraadio’s broadcast…

December 7, 2021

Workgroup members at conferences

On November 23, Aveliina gave a presentation at the ABC webinar of grasslands in agricultural landscapes. In her presentation, Aveliina…

November 5, 2021

Avellina spoke at the environmental conference

On November 5, the Ministry of the Environment organized an international environmental conference “Biodiversity and Climate in a Changing World”.…

October 30, 2021

Urgent message in a new article: Climate change mitigation must focus on restoring ecosystems instead of planting trees

Together with colleagues from Hungary, Germany and France, Aveliina emphasized in a recent article in the journal Restoration Ecology that…

October 28, 2021

Our work group started a new project: assessing the economic significance of nature’s benefits

At the request of the Environmental Agency, researchers from the University of Tartu and the Estonian University of Life Sciences,…

October 18, 2021

Aveliina will start working as a member of the expert group of the Estonian Green Policy Steering Committee

On October 18, the composition of an expert group set up within the Steering Committee for Green Policy was appointed…

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…

October 1, 2021

Aveliina wrote a book chapter about landscape restoration in a landscape ecology themed book

Aveliina wrote a book chapter in the book The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Ecology. Aveliina’s chapter is about landscape scale…

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…

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