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 [...]

Over the summer we had many students visiting our workgroup to collaborate with our researchers and do some fieldwork. From April to August PhD students Maribel Vasquez (from Chile) and [...]

This summer 58 Bachelor level students successfully completed the field course in Floristics. The course was thought in three groups and supervised by several members of our department. From our [...]

We are sad to say goodbye to Robert Szava-Kovats who started a new position at the Estonian Marine Institute. Robert was a researcher in the macroecology workgroup since its beginning. [...]