Our workgroup members Carlos, Riin, Aurele and Meelis published a new paper in this week's Nature magazine! The study was done in collaboration with members from the Plant Ecology Laboratory [...]

We are happy to welcome a new PhD student to our workgroup! Oscar started his PhD studies in September and he is using species distribution modelling, dark diversity methods and [...]

On 3rd September, we gathered together with the landscape biodiversity workgroup for a postponed spring seminar in Tartu. This time we talked about our future plans - which novel research [...]

We held a virtual workshop for all DarkDivNet members on 5th May to share some preliminary results from the project and discuss future plans. We heard talks from the DarkDivNet [...]

This summer we will start a project "Tartu - City of Good Microbes" to study soil biodiversity in Tartu. The project is led by Meelis in collaboration with the Center [...]

In a new global study we map the functional spectra of 75 000 plant and animal species to explore if threatened species represent a certain combination of traits. We found [...]

Carlos co-authored a new book "Handbook of Trait-Based Ecology: From Theory to R Tools" together with colleagues Francesco de Bello, André T. C. Dias, Lars Götzenberger, Marco Moretti and Matty P. Berg. [...]

We published a fresh newsletter of the current status of the DarkDivNet project! Already 100 regions across the world have been sampled for our global project, but we are still [...]

Since almost everybody is working from home these days, there is a great opportunity to easily visit workgroups in other countries - virtually, without any major organising or carbon footprint. [...]

We are happy to welcome another member to our workgroup! Enrico Tordoni started his work as a postdoctoral researcher in December. His research focuses on disentangling the evolutionary and functional [...]