Once abundant, indigenous noble crayfish stocks in Europe have suffered from a long-term population decline due to the spread of North-American crayfish species. They are latent carriers of the crayfish plague agent ...

Sublethal effects of pesticides on behavioural endpoints are poorly investigated in nontargeted beneficial arthropod predators important as nartural enemies of many agricultural pests. In this ecotoxicological study, ...

Macrophytes play an important role in aquatic ecosystems. Their temporal and spatial distribution is governed by various natural and anthropogenic pressures and disturbances. The aim of the thesis is to study the effect ...

Around the world, there is increasing interest in research showing the impact of the physical environment on people’s health and wellbeing. This work focuses on landscape reading according to chosen theories in healing ...

Potato (Solanum spp.) is the third most important food crop in the world after rice and wheat by FAO in 2014 in terms of human consumption. In the cold temperate climate zone, potato is one of the essential vitamins source ...

This study offers new knowledge concerning key ABP processing issues in the Estonian meat industry. Three specific topics are elaborated herein: a) a model of a monitoring system that makes it possible to assess the value ...

The aims of the thesis are to analyse how the innovation is included in the Estonian forest policy documents, to describe and analyse the main policy driven innovations in Estonian forestry governance, management of ...

Doktoritöö käsitleb metsaökosüsteemide taastamist Eestis, hõlmates nii kaevandamisega rikutud alade taasmetsastamist kui ka loodusmetsade struktuurikomponentide tekitamist madala loodusväärtusega aladele ning aladele, kus ...

The doctoral thesis focuses on the influence of long-term local weather variation on Scots pine growth on a temporal and spatial scale. Dendrochronological methods were used to determine the most influential climatic factors ...

The goal of the case studies was to identify a semiosphere in landscape, the properties characteristic of memory and reminiscences, in order to identify the universal functioning mechanisms of the object and to comprehend ...