On 12th of May, Diego Trindade successfully defended his thesis "Dark diversity dynamics linked to global change: taxonomic and functional perspective" and was awarded with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [...]

The Laelatu Academy is a seminar and think tank for high school and university students that is organised by the Botany department every spring and autumn. Together with scientists the [...]

Madli, Meelis, Kersti, and Ene, in collaboration with other scientists from Tartu University and the Estonian University of Life Sciences, published a new study in Ecological Modelling. This study explores the [...]

We had our workgroup spring seminar in Laelatu field station on 18th-19th April. This time, the topic of the seminar was 'Data science and data in macroecology' and from our [...]

A new paper is published in the Clinical & Experimental Allergy where researchers from the Children’s Clinic of Tartu University Hospital and from the UT Department of Botany collaborate to study [...]

Juni and Meelis have just published a new paper about Dark Diversity Affinity (DDA) in Methods in Ecology and Evolution. This paper proposed a metric, DDA, to scale affinities of [...]

On 3rd April the botany department of the University of Tartu organised an Eco students fair for Bachelor and Master level students, where all department workgroups were able to introduce [...]

Macroecology workgroup tries to regularly meet with other workgroups from the University of Tartu to discuss collaboration opportunities. This week, we met with the members of the Chair of Entomology [...]

Leading to the celebration of the Estonian Independence Day on 24th February, President Alar Karis honoured 167 people with state decorations, among them several scientists. We are very happy that [...]

Enrico visited the Modelling of Biodiversity Laboratory (MOBI Lab) led by Petr Keil on 8th-13th February. The group is based at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech [...]