Facilities

To meet the objectives, excellent lab facilities, including modern GC-MS, PTR-MS, HPLC equipment and unique plant gas-exchange monitoring systems, microscopy and plant molecular biology tools are available. A large-scale ecosystem infrastructure will be developed in frames of the Estonian National Research Infrastructure Roadmap projects „Estonian Environmental Observatory“, including a SMEAR Estonia (Station for Measuring Forest Ecosystem–Atmosphere Relations), and upgrading FAHM (Free Air Humidity Manipulation) platform. These facilities collectively allow characterization of plant stress responses in the lab and in the field and direct monitoring of soil-vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks.