Driven by the mission to tackle Raunkiæran shortfall (lack of knowledge of species traits and functions) and enhance ecological understanding, the TraitDivNet is committed to explore the world's most challenging [...]

Markéta Applová, a PhD student from the Czech Republic is visiting Macroecology workgroup during the month of November. She is supervised jointly by Carlos Carmona and Lars Götzenberger, who has [...]

Every two years the University of Tartu Department of Botany organises a PhD conference where 2nd and 3rd year students present their research. This year the conference took place on [...]

On 15th November Bruno Paganeli got his PhD degree in botany and mycology with his thesis "Dark diversity methods for prioritization of areas and species in nature conservation". The oponent [...]

On 1st November, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences of University of Tartu held a conference on a topic "Redefining Resources". Experts from various departments gathered at the Oecologicum to [...]

We had our workgroup autumn seminar on 15-16 October in Saarjärve Puhkemaja in Põlvamaa. This time the topic of the seminar was 'Evolution and Macroecology' and we heard talks on [...]

Oscar and Meelis, in collaboration with the Soil Ecology Group and other scientists from Tartu University and the Estonian University of Life Sciences, published a new study in Soil Biology and [...]

From September 30th to October 4th Enrico was in Paris for InvaPact II, a workshop aimed to implement a standardized metric, first devised during InvaPact I, to measure the consequences [...]

This year the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) Annual Symposium 2024 took place in Funchal, in Madeira Island, Portugal, from the 16th to the 20th of September 2024. The theme [...]

On September 12th, the Department of Botany at the University of Tartu organized an Eco Fair for students who may be interested in joining a workgroup in the department. This [...]