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 [...]

Although December and January is not a good time for field work in Estonia, then on the southern hemisphere vegetation sampling is possible. This winter, our adventurous field workers, Slendy [...]

Since Bruno and Slendy both received their PhD degrees a few months ago, they are now embarking on new adventures on the other side of the world. Bruno returned to [...]

On January 31st, the annual joint winter conference of the Botany and Zoology departments took place, where all PhD students had the opportunity to give 3-minute presentations. This time, we [...]