On 10th December Estonian Research Council held their annual event to honor the best young researchers at the National Contest for University Students. We are extremely happy that in the [...]

Recently a new study was published in Global Ecology and Biogeography about the global dark diversity of alien plants. The study was led by Bruno who recently finished his PhD [...]

Our workgroup members Jing Yang and Carlos Carmona led a new study about how competition alters the relationship between plant traits and growth in tree seedlings. The study was published [...]

This year our workgroup autumn seminar took place in Jõgeva County in Mokko Country Hotel. Despite the grey and drizzly weather, we still enjoyed being in the autumnal countryside, and [...]

In October, our workgroup member Jing Yang conducted TraitDivNet fieldwork in the tropical rainforests of Xishuangbanna, southwest China. The goal was to collect above- and belowground trait data from species-rich [...]

On 23-24 October, the Nordic Computational Biology Conference 2025 (Estonia + Finland) was held in Tallinn, and our workgroup was represented by Enrico. At the conference researchers from Estonia and Finland [...]

On 15-17 October, Meelis participated in the 36th Annual Conference of the Academia Europeae Building Bridges 2025. He was welcomed as the new member of the academy and also presented [...]

On 1st October Carlos started his new position as a distinguished professor at the Biological Mission of Galicia of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) located in Pontevedra in Spain. A few weeks later several of [...]

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 [...]