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Team’s research mainly involves large-scale drivers of biological diversity, encompassing phylogenetic, functional and genetic diversity components. They apply ecoinformatics by integrating biodiversity and environmental data, and elaborating algorithms to test ecological hypotheses.
Particular focus is placed on exploring species that have the potential to inhabit a local habitat but are absent (the dark diversity).
| Meelis Pärtel | Professor (botany), Head of the Macroecology and ecoinformatics team, Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu |
| [email protected] | CVlink opens in new page |
Field work on alvars in West-Estonia
Research staff
| Meelis Pärtel | Professor (botany), PhD |
| Aveliina Helm | Assoc. Professor (botany), PhD |
| Nele Ingerpuu | Assoc. Professor (botany), PhD |
| Tatajana Oja | Assoc. Professor (botany), PhD |
| Tsipe Aavik | Assoc. Professor, PhD |
| Ülle Reier | Research Fellow, PhD |
| Riin Tamme | Research Fellow, PhD |
| Aurele Toussaint | Research Fellow, PhD |
| Sabrina Träger | Research Fellow, PhD |
| Carlos Perez Carmona | Research Fellow, PhD |
| Kersti Riibak | Research Fellow, PhD |
| Junichi Fujinuma | Research Fellow, PhD |
| Ji-Zhong Wan | Research Fellow, PhD |
Assistant staff
| Liis Kasari-Toussaint | Senior specialist, PhD |
| Kersti Riibak | Senior specialist, PhD |
| Ene Kook | Lecturer, PhD |
| Natalja Kirsanova | Lab Assistant |
| Enrico Tordoni | Senior specialist, PhD |
| Jelle Maurice Devalez | Specialist |
PhD students and their research topics
| Elise Joonas | Nanoosakestest põhjustatud stress fütoplanktoni kooslustes - sidustades nanotoksikoloogia elurikkusega |
| Madli Jõks | Tumeda elurikkuse kontseptsiooni uurimine arvutisimulatsioonidega |
| Tiiu Kupper | Looniitude sammalkatte dünaamika |
| Tiina Samson | Kaitsealuste soosammalde ökoloogia, levikubioloogia ja konkurentsitaluvus |
| Elisabeth Prangel | Importance of landscape and biodiversity on the provision of ecosystem services |
| Iris Reinula | Landscape changes have influenced the genetic diversity of grassland plants |
| Miina Rikka | The relations between mire and freshwater bryophytes´ dark diversity with enivronment |
| Diego Pires Ferraz Da Trinidade | Dark diversity dynamics linked to global change: taxonomic and fonctional perspective |
| Slendy Julieth Rodrigues Alarcon | Intraspecific trait diversity in plants: characterizing effects of trait variation on community assembly and ecosystem functioning |
| Bruno Paganeli | Dark diversity in plant communities: linkage to invasion of alien species |
| Eleonora Beccari | |
| Marianne Kaldra | |
| Anne Merzin |