Visiting student from Italy

Eleonora Beccari is visiting our workgroup from October to December in the Erasmus programme. She is a Master student from Italy (University of Trieste) and in Tartu she is working with Carlos. Her project aims to estimate to what extent spectral diversity (obtained from air-borne remote-sensed images) is correlated with functional and taxonomical diversity in Italian costal dune ecosystem. Specifically, she tries to test whether spectral diversity could be a good proxy of functional diversity for dune ecosystem and which mechanistic traits are more correlated with spectral diversity and spectral diversity index. Welcome, Eleonora!