After some time when we didn't have any MSc students in our workgroup, we are now especially lucky that two students have decided to do their Master thesis with us! [...]

Marta Miia Pärnpuu finished her BSc studies this summer and we are fortunate that she decided to continue her MSc studies in our workgroup as well! While her BSc thesis [...]

Twice a year the Botany and Zoology departments organise an Eco Fair where biology students at the bachelor or masters level can meet with different workgroups, find a thesis topic [...]

This autumn we are also happy to welcome Gerard Martínez Devesa, a visiting PhD student from the CIBIO Research Institute at the University of Alicante (Spain). His research focuses on [...]

We are happy to host visiting PhD student Wengang Zhang from China! Wengang is a PhD student at the School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University. His [...]

We are happy to welcome Elisa Jordan from University of Münster in Germany! Elisa studies Landscape Ecology and her main interests are the impact of climate change on plant communities [...]

Last year many of our workgroup members did field work in different parts of Estonia to collect data on European plant species above- and belowground traits. This summer they continued [...]

On 8-10 July, the New Phytologist Symposium "Microbes as Hidden or Prominent Players in Plant Life" took place at the University of Tartu. It was organised by Maarja Öpik and the Institute of Ecology [...]

On 15-19 June, the Ecology of Soil Microorganisms conference was held in Helsinki, Finland. Several researchers from the University of Tartu participated, and Mats represented our workgroup. He presented a [...]

On 3-6 June the joint conference of Iberian Ecological Society (SIBECOL) and the Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology (AEET) was held in Pontevedra, Spain. From our workgroup Carlos, Diego, Eleonora and [...]