News - University of Tartu Landscape Biodiversity Group

March 21, 2020

The web page of the cowslip campaign got the design award 'Kuldmuna'

The web page of the cowslip citizen science campaign "Estonia is looking for cowslips", that started last spring, was awarded…

March 18, 2020

New member of our workgroup - Krista Takkis

Krista Takkis has joined our workgroup. She focuses on the effect of landscape history, structure and environmental conditions on plant…

March 18, 2020

Sabrina's research visit at WSL, Switzerland, 2-14 March 2020

In the beginning of March, Sabrina visited Dr. Christian Rellstab and Prof. Rolf Holderegger at the Research institute for Forest,…

March 4, 2020

Sabrina talked about overgrowing and genetic diversity at the Conservation Genetics conference

Sabrina participated at the 4th Annual Meeting in Conservation Genetics, held in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 26-28 February. The topic of the…

March 3, 2020

Media coverage in February

February was a very busy month for our work group. Aveliina participated in the TV show "Suud puhtaks" (in Estonian)…

February 28, 2020

Aveliina met with the president to talk about conserving biodiversity

On February 27, Aveliina and the Rector and Vice Rector for Research of University of Tartu met with the President…

February 21, 2020

Aveliina talked about the importance of biodiversity in Parliament

Aveliina went to the Estonian Parliament with other stakeholders on Thursday to talk about the forest in the context of…

February 21, 2020

Marianne and Iris talked about biodiversity and everyone's nature protection

Marianne and Iris went to Kungla kindergarten in Rakvere on Wednesday to talk about biodiversity and how we can all…

February 20, 2020

Aveliina and her colleagues published a new article on the impact of climate on freshwater plants

Aveliina and her colleagues from the University of Oulu published a research paper that explores the patterns and distribution of…

February 19, 2020

A new article was published on 'rule breaking plants' whose strategy helps to withstand climate change better

Large-scale study involving researchers from 21 countries, led by Dr. Annabel Smith, from the University of Queensland and where Aveliina…

February 17, 2020

Sabrina talked about landscape genetics in the department seminar

Sabrina gave a talk about landscape genetic analyses in the seminar of Department of Botany (UT) on the 13th of…

February 10, 2020

Tsipe went to a Conserve Plants COST meeting in Prague

Tsipe participated in a Conserve Plants COST meeting near Prague in the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of…

February 3, 2020

Media coverage in January

In the first half of January Aveliina gave an interview to Saturday edition of Postimees - Arter (in Estonian). She…

January 28, 2020

The first G-BiKE COST action Policy Brief was released

The first Policy Brief of the COST action G-BiKE, where Tsipe and Sabrina from our workgroup are participating, was released.…

January 24, 2020

A report about the sustainability of management schemes of Estonian semi-natural grasslands was finished

Tsipe and Liis contributed to the preparation of a thorough report about the sustainability of management schemes of Estonian semi-natural…

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