Macro2020 is the 14th annual meeting of the specialist group Macroecology of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (GfÖ) and was held in Konstanz, Germany on 2nd-5th March. [...]

We are happy to welcome Ji-Zhong Wan from China to our workgroup! Ji-Zhong will be with us for the next two years as a post-doctoral researcher. His research will focus [...]

PhD student Diego spent the last autumn semester (October-January) in the University of South-Bohemia in Czechia participating in the Quantitative Ecology Module. The module is a set of courses designed [...]

In the end of January, University of Tartu held a Open Doors Day for 9th grade students. From each department PhD students were introducing their curriculums through fun experiments and [...]

We held our first ever DarkDivNet conference on 20-23 November with ~70 participants from all over the world. Two days were filled with interesting plenary and ordinary talks as well [...]

Our workgroup is part of the Centre of Excellence EcolChange and on 12th November many of us participated in the EcolChange PhD conference. This time, the conference was organised by [...]

Eleonora Beccari is visiting our workgroup from October to December in the Erasmus programme. She is a Master student from Italy (University of Trieste) and in Tartu she is working [...]

We are happy to welcome Bruno Paganeli from Brazil to our workgroup. Bruno started his PhD studies in November focusing on the invasability of natural and anthropogenic ecosystems using the [...]

On 29th-30th October we had our autumn seminar together with the Landscape Biodiversity workgroup. It was already the 25th science retreat for our workgroup and this time we gathered in [...]

We are happy to welcome Slendy Rodriguez from Colombia to our workgroup. She started her PhD studies this autumn focusing on the functional diversity of plant communities. Specifically, she will [...]