Meelis and Riin represented our workgroup at the annual International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) symposium. The conference was held between 14-18 July in Bremen, Germay. The whole week was [...]

Madli participated at the third Island Biology conference which took place in Saint-Denis in the marvellous island of Réunion. The event brought together scientists from all over the world, fascinated [...]

The 2nd International Conference on Community Ecology took place 4-6 June in Bologna, Italy. Meelis was invited as a plenary speaker and he gave an interesting talk on dark diversity [...]

Our department has a long-term experiment looking at the effects of fertilisation and carbon addition on grassland species diversity. It has already been running for 17 years! Kersti, Madli and [...]

On 2nd-3rd May, we had our spring seminar together with the Landscape biodiversity workgroup in western Estonia. The seminar was about methods in ecology and we heard many interesting talks [...]

Estonian Naturalist Society held their 45th Theoretical Biology spring school on 26th-29th April in southern Estonia. This year's topic was biogeography and there were presentations about the distribution of animals, [...]

Meelis was a coauthor on a paper led by the Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography group at the University of Göttingen, Germany. They developed a new method to calculate species pools [...]

Riin was a co-author on a new publication about the latitudinal gradient in seed dispersal distances. They collected available georeferenced data about seed dispersal distances in the literature and found [...]

DarkDivNet2019 workshop will be held on 20-23 November in Tartu. November, with its gloomy weather, is an ideal time to discuss dark diversity topics. There will be many interesting talks [...]

Doctoral School of Earth Sciences and Ecology organised a course "Laws of the altitudinal zones of vegetation: Evolution, ecology and human impact" in Tenerife. From our workgroup Ene, Ülle and [...]