Professor Pablo Peri, the National Coordinator of INTA in Argentina, visited us on August 30th and 31st to discuss our current collaborations (DarkDivNet and TraitDivNet) and future plans. Prof. Peri had one-on-one and group [...]

This year the New Phytologist next generation scientists' meeting took place on 19th-22nd July here in Tartu, and from our workgroup Diego and Enrico participated in this great event. Both presented their [...]

Our PhD student Slendy, together with her supervisors Carlos and Riin, published a new paper in Functional Ecology.  Many regions in the world are expected to become drier in the future [...]

The tenth International Biogeography Society (IBS) conference took place in Vancouver and online on 2nd-6th June 2022. From our workgroup, Enrico and Bruno participated virtually with oral presentations. Despite the [...]

After two years we were able to gather again in Laelatu field station for our and landscape biodiversity workgroups spring seminar. On the morning of 10th May we headed to [...]

The XIV Estonian Ecology Conference took place in Oecologicum on 22nd April. The conference unites ecologists, specialists and citizens in Estonia who are interested in ecological research, and has been [...]

We are happy to welcome Kerry Smith, a visiting PhD student from the University of Reading in the UK! Kerry is a first year doctoral student in the Ecology and [...]

Every few years, the PhD students from the botany department have a chance to participate in a field course about plant geography. They travel to Tenerife in the Canary Islands [...]

Our PhD student Bruno together with several other workgroup members recently published a paper in Diversity and Distributions. In the context of the biodiversity crisis, the control of non-native species [...]

Diego published a new paper in the Journal of Biogeography. This paper is a result of the time he spent in Czech Republic attending the biannual Quantitative Ecology Module held in České [...]