{"id":2433,"date":"2024-11-29T09:25:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2024-12-05T09:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T09:26:47","slug":"traitdivnet-expedition-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/traitdivnet-expedition-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"TraitDivNet expedition in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Driven by the mission to tackle Raunki\u00e6ran shortfall (lack of knowledge of species traits and functions) and enhance ecological understanding, the <a href=\"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/traitdivnet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TraitDivNet<\/a> is committed to explore the world's most challenging and remote regions. This autumn, our intrepid field workers, Blanca and Juni, embarked on an expedition through the rainforests and savannahs of Ghana since Africa is one of the continents lacking plant trait data. They successfully returned with invaluable data on ten above- and belowground functional traits for approximately 120 little studied species. Blanca and Juni collaborated with CSIR - Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) and University of Ghana (Department of Plant and Environmental Biology), and had a lot of help from local researchers, students and rangers, as well as from Philemon Gyamfi and John Yangyuro Kupagme who are PhD students in the University of Tartu Department of Botany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" data-id=\"2434\" src=\"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet1-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet1-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet1-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet1-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet1-2048x1538.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet1-scaled.jpg 2560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2440\" src=\"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet4-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet4-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet4-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet4-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet4-1538x2048.jpg 1538w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet4-scaled.jpg 1922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"2442\" src=\"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet5-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet5-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet5-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet5-1153x1536.jpg 1153w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet5-1538x2048.jpg 1538w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet5-scaled.jpg 1922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"759\" data-id=\"2436\" src=\"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet2-1024x759.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet2-1024x759.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet2-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet2-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet2-1536x1139.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet2-2048x1518.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ghana_traitdivnet2-scaled.jpg 2560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driven by the mission to tackle Raunki\u00e6ran shortfall (lack of knowledge of species traits and functions) and enhance ecological understanding, the TraitDivNet is committed to explore the world's most challenging and remote regions. This autumn, our intrepid field workers, Blanca and Juni, embarked on an expedition through the rainforests and savannahs of Ghana since Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2444,"href":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/2444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macroecology.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}