The team’s reasearch is related to acclimation and adaptation responses of plants to key environmental drivers.
The focus of the research is on feedback mechanisms between plant carbon balance, volatile emissions and atmospheric characteristics and climate (wild plants stress responses, stress responses and tolerance of existing and potential crop species).
The work is conducted at all levels of biological organization from genes to globe using experimental and modeling techniques.
Station for Measuring Ecosystem-Atmosphere Relations (SMEAR) is build up in Järvselja forest, located 50 km from Tartu. The mast for measurement equipment is 130 m high. The concept of the SMEAR Estonia station is to measure concentrations and fluxes of energy and matter in the atmosphere—biosphere system.
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Blog of the team:
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| Ülo Niinemets | Professor, (plant physiology), Head of the Centre of Excellence EcolChange, Head of the Plant ecophysiology and biosphere-atmosphere interaction team, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences; Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences |
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Research staff
| Ülo Niinemets | Professor, PhD (Univ of Tartu) CVlink opens in new page |
| Bakhtier Rasulov | Senior Research Fellow, PhD (Dušanbe, Tadžikistan) CVlink opens in new page |
| Astrid Kännaste | Senior Research Fellow, PhD (Univ. of Stockholm) CVlink opens in new page |
| Evelin Loit | Senior Research Fellow, PhD (Univ. of Ottawa) CVlink opens in new page |
| Tiina Tosens | Assoc, Professor, PhD (Macquarie University, Australia) CVlink opens in new page |
| Eero Talts | Research Fellow, PhD (Univ. of Tartu) CVlink opens in new page |
| Triinu Remmel | Research Fellow, PhD (Univ of Tartu) CVlink opens in new page |
| Eve Runno-Paurson | Research Fellow, PhD (Estonian Univ. of Life Sciences) CVlink opens in new page |
| Bin Liu | Research Fellow, PhD (University of Freiburg) CVlink opens in new page |
| Kristiina Mark | Research Fellow, PhD (Univ of Tartu) CVlink opens in new page |
| Kaia Kask | Research Fellow, PhD (Estonian Univ. of Life Sciences) CVlink opens in new page |
| Anu Lepik | Research Fellow, PhD (Univ of Tartu) CVlink opens in new page |
| Linda-Liisa Veromann-Jürgenson | Junior Researcher, PhD (Estonian Univ. of Life Sciences) CVlink opens in new page |
| Vinicius Fernandes de Souza | Research Fellow/Postdoc, PhD (National Institute of Amazonian Research, Brasil) |
Assistant staff
| Tiia Kurvits | Manager, MSc |
| Evi Vaino | Senior Laboratory Assistant |
| Piret Pärlist | Laboratory Assistant |
| Pille Meinson | Senior specialist, PhD |
| Mari Tobias | Senior specialist, MSc |
| Helina Nassar | Specialist - gardener, MSc |
| Vyacheslav Eremeev | Senior specialist, PhD |
| Vivian Kuusk | Senior specialist, MSc |
PhD students and their research topics
| Vivian Kuusk | Emission of volatile compounds from plant leaves and investigation of photosynthetic structures in plant cell with electron microscopy techniques. |
| Valentina Zolotarjova | Infochemical responses of plants to biotic and abiotic stress. |
| Liisa Kübarsepp | Õhulõhede suuruse ja tiheduse seos nende avanemise ja sulgemise kiirusega. |
| Chikodinaka N. Okereke | Volatile organic compounds induced by biotic stresses in tropical agricultural plants. |
| Hassan Yusuf Sulaiman | Constitutive and induced benzenoid emission by plant. |
| Yusuph Olawale Abiola | Tropical agricultural species in changing climate. |
| Wuyuntana | Herbivory of „living fossils“: chemical and structural control factors. |
| Collins Aimuaenvbosa Agho | Novel crops for Estonian climate and their biotic stress responses. |
| Peeter Lääniste | Stress tolerance in new oilseed crops and optimization of cultivation technologies in Estonian field conditions. |
| Upasana Sharma | Stress research of Cryptogam. |
| Jose Angel Martines | Stress research of Cryptogam. |
| Helina Nassar | Stress tolerance and cultivation technologies of sweet potato in norther European climate conditions. |
| Ivar Zekker | Stress response of plants on the climate change of the Nordic region. |
| João Paolo Silva Souza | Cryptogam microbial communities distribution and dependence on climatic, ecological and biological factors. |
| Jesamine Rikisahedew | Physiological and structural trade-offs underlying the global variation of mesophyll conductance. |
| Hongyuan Zhang | Underlying mechanisms of Variability in the relationship between photosynthesis and photorespiration in Helianthus species. |