On 4th September, Oscar Zárate Martínez successfully defended his thesis "Soil microbial communities in changing landscapes: spatiotemporal patterns in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi" and earned a PhD degree in Botany and [...]

In September, Karl Hendrik Tamkivi started his PhD in our workgroup! He also did got his BSc degree in our workgroup and then did a MSc degree in data science. [...]

Jing Yang worked in our workgroup as a Research Fellow in Functional Ecology from 2024 to 2026. Recently, she was awarded the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, which means that [...]

On 3rd July, the New Phytologist symposium "Collections through time: legacy and innovation" took place at the University of Tartu. It was organised by Maarja Öpik and the Institute of [...]

In June, we welcomed Marta Baumane to our workgroup as a new postdoctoral researcher! Marta finished her PhD studies in 2024 in the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, where she [...]

With the TraitDivNet project we continue collaboration with our guest professor Carlos Carmona and his new workgroup in Pontevedra, Spain. This spring our workgroup members Juni, Riin and Aivi travelled [...]

On 6th May our workgroup took a road trip to Laelatu for our traditional spring seminar. The topic of the seminar was "Macroecology across taxonomic groups" and presentations were given [...]

We participated again in Eco Fair, an event where our university biology students can meet all the workgroups of Botany and Zoology departments. We had Blanca, Oscar and Riin introducing [...]

New study was published in Journal of Ecology about how competition reshapes functional trait differences among tree species and how these changes can promote coexistence. The study was led by [...]

Enrico Tordoni worked in our workgroup as a researcher for nearly 6 years (2020-2026). However, recently he was elected as a new Assistant Professor in his home country Italy. He [...]