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19.06.2020
Writing retreat in Laelatu
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, [...]
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06.05.2020
Virtual spring seminar
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 [...]
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20.04.2020
New web application for estimating landscape biodiversity support in Estonia
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 [...]
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13.04.2020
New paper about time lags in observed and dark diversity
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 [...]
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03.04.2020
Working from home
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 [...]
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06.03.2020
Meelis and Aurèle participated at the Macro2020 conference
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. [...]
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03.02.2020
Welcome Ji-Zhong Wan
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 [...]
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01.02.2020
Diego visited the University of South-Bohemia in Czech Republic
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 [...]
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30.01.2020
Open Doors Day in the University of Tartu
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 [...]
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