Although we had to skip our traditional workgroup trip to Laelatu this year, then we managed to have a 5-day writing retreat with a smaller group of people. Carlos, Aurele, [...]
On 6th May we held our spring seminar together with the Landscape Biodiversity workgroup. When in previous years our spring seminar has taken place in Laelatu in western Estonia, where [...]
Meelis and Aveliina (Landscape biodiversity workgroup) have led the development of a new web-based application to estimate how well landscapes support biodiversity. The easy to use application Rohemeeter (currently in [...]
We are happy to announce that our PhD student Diego just published his first paper from his doctoral studies in Global Change Biology! Together with Carlos and Meelis they propose [...]
We are lucky that macroecological research can be done from home offices very successfully (although we had to postpone some of our greenhouse experiments and lab works). We hope everybody [...]
Macro2020 is the 14th annual meeting of the specialist group Macroecology of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (GfÖ) and was held in Konstanz, Germany on 2nd-5th March. [...]
We are happy to welcome Ji-Zhong Wan from China to our workgroup! Ji-Zhong will be with us for the next two years as a post-doctoral researcher. His research will focus [...]
PhD student Diego spent the last autumn semester (October-January) in the University of South-Bohemia in Czechia participating in the Quantitative Ecology Module. The module is a set of courses designed [...]
In the end of January, University of Tartu held a Open Doors Day for 9th grade students. From each department PhD students were introducing their curriculums through fun experiments and [...]