News - University of Tartu Landscape Biodiversity Group

April 18, 2022

A guide to supporting biodiversity in your yard was published

A guide made by Aveliina has been published: "How to support biodiversity with the help of grass in your yard?".…

April 18, 2022

InterRest project kickoff meeting in Göttingen

Triin and Elisabeth from our workgroup went to Göttingen, Germany between 29.03 and 01.04, where they met with the InterRest…

April 14, 2022

New article about soil fungal diversity

A new scientific article about soil fungal diversity and what influences it was published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry journal,…

April 11, 2022

Animation about the stages of research

An animation of the stages of research has been published as part of the cowslips campaign. The animation explains how…

April 5, 2022

New EASAC report „Regenerative agriculture in Europe“

EASAC (European Academies’ Science Advisory Council) has published a new report „Regenerative agriculture in Europe“, which makes a critical analysis…

February 17, 2022

New article about the extinction of semi-natural communities

In February, a new research article co-authored by Aveliina was published on semi-natural communities being caught in socio-ecological extinction vortex.…

February 14, 2022

The Black Death was not as widespread as previously thought

An exciting pan-European study of the ecological footprint of the great plague of the 14th century - Black Death, published…

February 9, 2022

Moving and opening our new house

In December we moved to a new house in Toomemägi with the Departments of Botany and Zoology. The former house…

February 9, 2022

Work group at the conference on Nature conservation and wetlands

On February 1 and 2, a conference on Nature conservation and wetlands organized by the Estonian Fund for Nature took…

January 19, 2022

Commentary in Nature and an article about cultural ecosystem services

In January, Aveliina, along with Kris Decler and Jordi Cortina-Segarra, published a commentary in Nature, writing that the EU nature…

January 19, 2022

Presentations about cowslip campaign

On January 12, Tsipe spoke about the stages of making science, about making our citizen science campaign "Looking for Cowslips"…

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…

December 1, 2021

An article was published about plant-pollinator interactions on Estonian meadows

The article "Effects of different types of low-intensity management on plant-pollinator interactions in Estonian grasslands" was published in the journal…

November 26, 2021

An article on the role of genetic diversity and mycorrhiza in plant recovery

A research article was published with Tsipe as a co-author in the journal BMC Ecology and Evolution "The role of…

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