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 [...]

This spring semester Oscar spent three months visiting the Kohouti Lab in the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences to collaborate with Petr Kohout who received his [...]

This spring the functional ecology part of our workgroup was very busy, because they were collecting trait data for Mediterranean plant species during the months of April and May. They [...]

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 [...]