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28.04.2025
Previous post-docs visit
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 [...]
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14.04.2025
Viktor Masing Day
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 [...]
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03.04.2025
New paper in Nature about dark diversity
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 [...]
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21.03.2025
Spring Eco Fair
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 [...]
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20.03.2025
Professor Carmona's inaugural lecture
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 [...]
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25.02.2025
Luciano is visiting our workgroup
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 [...]
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21.02.2025
Eleonora received a PhD degree
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 [...]
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02.02.2025
TraitDivNet field work in Colombia
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 [...]
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01.02.2025
Goodbye, Bruno and 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 [...]
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31.01.2025
PhD students' winter conference
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 [...]
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