Main research topics of the team are environmental and biological controls on carbon and nutrient storage and cycling and greenhouse gas emissions under global change.
Focus on the root-mycorrhizosphere, the microbial community structure of soils and the abundance and diversity of functional genes in natural and managed wetlands, abandoned and restored peatlands, forests and croplands. Also, the productivity and carbon balance of potential food and biofuel crops.
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| Ülo Mander | Professor, Head of the Ecotechnology and landscape biogeochaemistry team, Department of Gepgraphy, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu |
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Collection and measurement of greenhouse gases in the mire using a chamber method
Research staff
| Ülo Mander | Professor, PhD, Univ. of Tartu |
| Ivika Ostonen-Märtin | Professor, PhD, Univ. of Tartu |
| Martin Maddison | Assoc. Professor, PhD, Univ. of Tartu |
| Kaido Soosaar | Assoc. Professor, PhD, Univ. of Tartu |
| Evelyn Uuemaa | Assoc. Professor, PhD, Univ. of Tartu |
| Ain Kull | Assoc. Professor, PhD, Univ. of Tartu |
| Valentina Sagris | Research Fellow, PhD, Univ. of Tartu |
| Alar Teemusk | Research Fellow, PhD, Univ. of Tartu |
| Teele Ligi | Research Fellow, PhD, Univ. of Tartu |
| Hiie Nõlvak | Research Fellow, PhD, Univ. of TartuD |
| Mait Sepp | Research Fellow, PhD, Univ. of Tartu |
| Jaak Jaagus | Professor, PhD, Univ. of Tartu |
| Jüri Roosaare | Assoc. Professor, , PhD, Univ of Tartu |
| Kuno Kasak | Assoc. Professor, , PhD, Univ of Tartu |
| Alexander Kmoch | Research Fellow/Postdoc, PhD, Univ of Salzburg |
| Mikk Espenberg | Research Fellow/Postdoc, PhD, Univ of Tartu |
| Iuliia Burdun | Research Fellow, PhD, Univ. of Tartu |
Assistant staff
| Mart Muhel | Lab Assistant |
| Thomas Schindler | Specialist |
PhD students and their research topics
| Gert Veber | Temporal-spatial dynamics of greenhouse gas emissions in gog ecosystems as criterion for determination of bog buffer zones |
| Mirjam Potter | The evaluation of landscape scenery potential using measurable parametres |
| Birgit Viru | Spatio-temporal variability of snow cover in Estonia and its influence on greenhouse gas emission in winter |
| Rauno Lust | Microbial fuel cells for the enhancement of purification processes in treatment wetlands |
| Derek Sutherland | Beyond the Paris agreement: Will natural sources of greenhouse gases accelerate global warming? |
| Ainars Lupikis | Measured and modelled greenhouse gas fluxes from peat extraction fields with different landuse |
| Azadeh Pezapour | Foraging strategies of absorptive roots along environemntal gradients |
| Mohit Masta | Nitrous oxide (N2O) istopomer analysis of N2O production-consumption mechanisms in artificial wetlands and riparian buffer zones |
| Keit Kill | Constructed wetlands for treating polluted water from intensively managed agricultural fields |
| Bruno Montibeller | Determing global hotspots of degradation of environmental conditions due to climate change, agriculture intensification, deforestation, soil erosion and population increase |
| Alisa Krasnova | Modelling gaseous nitrogen and carbon fluxes in wetlands and forest ecosystems |
| Holger Virro | Geospatial big data mining over distributed Earth Observation (EO) data for spatial analysis and modelling support |
| Tauri Tampuu | Application of spaceborn SAR polarometry and interferometry for landscape ecological studies in bogs |
| Sharwari Gadegaonkar | The role and dynamics of microbial communities in bioelectrochemically enhanced constructed wetlands for the mitigation of agricultural water pollution |
| Hana Vahter | Modelling of gaseous nitrogen fluxes in various wetlands and forest ecosystems in organic soils |
| Biplavi Bhattarai | Functional adaptation of root-rhizobiome in warming grassland |
| Isaac Newton Kwasi Buo | Use of satellite-derived land surface temperature in investigation of urban microclimate |
| Reti Ranniku | CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes in drained peatlands: response to climate, vegetation and microbial controls |
| Sandeep Thayamkottu | Landscape-level modelling of greenhouse-gas fluxes in the world's peatlands |