Iris Reinula

Doctoral student
iris.reinula[at]ut.ee

[img_assist|nid=609|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=260|height=335]My study area is landscape genetics and genomics. I study how landscape changes have influenced the genetic diversity of grassland plants. My study system is Western Estonia’s alvars that have had a drastic decrease of area in the past hundred years due to overgrowing. One of the aims of my doctoral thesis is to find out if genetic diversity reacts to landscape change with a time lag. If this is the case, the effect of the area decrease on genetic diversity may only be seen after a certain period of time. In addition I try to detect loci with adaptive relevance and the response of adaptive (under natural selection) genetic diversity to landscape change and study if and how much do spatially isolated plant populations exchange diaspores and pollen that ensures genetic diversity of populations. My supervisor is researcher Tsipe Aavik.

Doctoral student
iris.reinula[at]ut.ee

[img_assist|nid=609|title=|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=260|height=335]My study area is landscape genetics and genomics. I study how landscape changes have influenced the genetic diversity of grassland plants. My study system is Western Estonia’s alvars that have had a drastic decrease of area in the past hundred years due to overgrowing. One of the aims of my doctoral thesis is to find out if genetic diversity reacts to landscape change with a time lag. If this is the case, the effect of the area decrease on genetic diversity may only be seen after a certain period of time. In addition I try to detect loci with adaptive relevance and the response of adaptive (under natural selection) genetic diversity to landscape change and study if and how much do spatially isolated plant populations exchange diaspores and pollen that ensures genetic diversity of populations. My supervisor is researcher Tsipe Aavik.