Scientists from University of Tartu and Estonian Fond for Nature invite this spring to join an exciting citizen science initiative – Estonia is looking for cowslips! There is no need [...]

Between 9th-10th March, Tartu hosted the final round of the Estonian Biology Olympiad for high school students. Meelis Pärtel gave an interesting talk about the secrects of biodiversity ("Elurikkuse saladuste [...]

Landscape Biodiversity workgroup, led by Dr. Tsipe Aavik and Dr. Aveliina Helm, has branched out from the Macroecology workgroup. New workgroup focuses on the relations of humans and natural environment [...]

On 27th of February the open doors day of Tartu university took place, where future students could participate in different scientific workshops. Kersti, Madli and Iris introduced our workgroup by [...]

DarkDivNet published a Newsletter for all current and potential participants. The newsletter gives an overview about the progress of DarkDivNet, encourage more people to participate (especially from less covered regions), [...]

January 8-12, 2019 Meelis and Robert participated at the International Biogeography Society (IBS) 9th Biennial Conference in Malaga, Spain. Robert gave a talk about how to estimate site favourability for [...]

In collaboration with our colleagues from the Plant Ecology group, Maarja Öpik and Martti Vasar, and Scott Wilson from the University of Regina, Canada, Sabrina published an article about the [...]

On 12th of December, Lisanna Schmidt successfully defended her thesis “Phenotypic and genetic differentiation in the hybridizing species pair Carex flava and C. viridula in geographically different regions“ and was [...]

Our workgroup Master student Marianne Kaldra won 1st prize (960 eur) for her Bachelor thesis „Heterostyly of Primula veris in fragmented populations“ in Estonian National Contest for University Students. Marianne’s [...]

18th of Nov – 1st of Dec Meelis, Ülle, Aurele, Madli, Miina, Elisabeth and Diego participated at the scientific expedition to Réunion island. Despite preparation everything did not go as [...]