February 9, 2022Moving and opening our new houseIn December we moved to a new house in Toomemägi with the Departments of Botany and Zoology. The former house…
February 9, 2022Work group at the conference on Nature conservation and wetlandsOn February 1 and 2, a conference on Nature conservation and wetlands organized by the Estonian Fund for Nature took…
January 19, 2022Commentary in Nature and an article about cultural ecosystem servicesIn January, Aveliina, along with Kris Decler and Jordi Cortina-Segarra, published a commentary in Nature, writing that the EU nature…
January 19, 2022Presentations about cowslip campaignOn January 12, Tsipe spoke about the stages of making science, about making our citizen science campaign "Looking for Cowslips"…
January 10, 2022Workgroup in annual summariesAt the end of last year and the beginning of this year, the press made summaries of 2021. Vikerraadio's broadcast…
December 7, 2021Workgroup members at conferencesOn November 23, Aveliina gave a presentation at the ABC webinar of grasslands in agricultural landscapes. In her presentation, Aveliina…
December 1, 2021An article was published about plant-pollinator interactions on Estonian meadowsThe article "Effects of different types of low-intensity management on plant-pollinator interactions in Estonian grasslands" was published in the journal…
November 26, 2021An article on the role of genetic diversity and mycorrhiza in plant recoveryA research article was published with Tsipe as a co-author in the journal BMC Ecology and Evolution "The role of…
November 5, 2021Avellina spoke at the environmental conferenceOn November 5, the Ministry of the Environment organized an international environmental conference "Biodiversity and Climate in a Changing World".…
October 30, 2021Urgent message in a new article: Climate change mitigation must focus on restoring ecosystems instead of planting treesTogether with colleagues from Hungary, Germany and France, Aveliina emphasized in a recent article in the journal Restoration Ecology that…
October 28, 2021Our work group started a new project: assessing the economic significance of nature's benefitsAt the request of the Environmental Agency, researchers from the University of Tartu and the Estonian University of Life Sciences,…
October 18, 2021Aveliina will start working as a member of the expert group of the Estonian Green Policy Steering CommitteeOn October 18, the composition of an expert group set up within the Steering Committee for Green Policy was appointed…
October 6, 2021A review article about the joint effects of host plant genetic diversity and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities on restoration successTsipe and Sabrina published a review paper in Functional Ecology in collaboration with the colleagues from the Plant Ecology Group…
October 1, 2021Aveliina wrote a book chapter about landscape restoration in a landscape ecology themed bookAveliina wrote a book chapter in the book The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Ecology. Aveliina's chapter is about landscape scale…
September 21, 2021Estonian wide test area network fieldwork started this summerThis year we created Estonian wide test area network called ECOGRID, which included different natural and semi-natural habitats in both…
