Meelis Pärtel is one of the three Estonian scientists who was recently elected to Academia Europaea! Meelis will participate in the academy’s Ecology and Evolution section, where he hopes to strengthen [...]

On June 5th the University of Tartu botany department had a day full of Bachelor's thesis defenses. From our research group three students successfully defended their bachelor’s theses - Mari [...]

On the May 20th, our workgroup spring seminar took place and this time we concentrated on the topic “Genetic and Landscape Data in Macroecology.” Presentations were given by Meelis, Carlos, [...]

On April 25, Estonian Doctoral School held a course for natural and agricultural science PhD students titled "Borders of Ecological Knowledge". Several next-generation scientists from across Europe who have ties [...]

On April 11, University of Tartu celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of professor Viktor Masing (1925-2001), a natural scientist who left an extraordinary mark on the natural and [...]

One of the main research topics of our workgroup has been dark diversity, and in 2019 we started the DarkDivNet coordinated research network. The goal of the network was to [...]

It has already become a tradition that twice a year the Department of Botany at the University of Tartu organizes an Eco Fair for bachelor's and master's students. So this [...]

On March 19, Carlos Pérez Carmona, professor of functional ecology, presented the results of his research in the University of Tartu inaugural lecture “A trait-based approach to biodiversity”. In his [...]

We are happy to host a visiting PhD student from Italy! Luciano Ludovico Maria De Benedictis is a PhD student in University of Camerino, at the School of Biosciences and [...]

On February 21st, Eleonora Beccari successfully defended her thesis "Mapping and Exploring Trait Spaces Across the Tree of Life" and earned her PhD degree in Botany and Mycology. The opponent was Holger [...]