On 6th of September, Slendy Rodríguez-Alarcón successfully defended her thesis "Intraspecific trait diversity in plants: characterizing effects of trait variation on community assembly and ecosystem functioning" and was awarded with the [...]

We are happy to welcome our new PhD student Daria Panasiuk! Daria recieved her MSc degree in Tartu University where she studied the paleobiology of algae. In the macroecology workgroup, [...]

In search of a better knowledge about plant functional traits, many of our workgroup members did summer fieldwork in Estonia as part of the TraitDivNet project. Combating hot weather, mosquitos, [...]

The 12th International Conference of Mycorrhiza took place on 4-9 August in Manchester, UK. This was the 12th conference where mycorrhiza researchers from all the world got together to share [...]

We are happy to welcome Jing Yang, our new visiting research fellow in functional ecology! She was also visiting us in March-May, but now is staying for a longer time. [...]

On a sunny morning on 8th May we headed from Tartu to Laelatu in Western Estonia for our workgroup spring seminar. The topic of the seminar was DarkDivNet and we [...]

On 1 May, Carlos Carmona started a position as a functional ecology professor in the Department of Botany of University of Tartu! Carlos has worked at the University of Tartu [...]

We are very happy when our former postdocs and researchers have a chance to visit us in Tartu. And it was a really nice coincidence that Rob Lewis, Jon Bennett [...]

Carlos held an opening meeting of his European Research Council grant project "Integrating above- and below-ground plant traits for improved ecological forecasting" on 21st March in Southern Estonia. Together with [...]

We are excited to welcome Jing Yang who is visiting our workgroup from March to May 2024. Jing is a postdoctoral fellow at East China Normal University. In her research [...]