On 21st of November Estonian Research Council organised a science communication conference in Tartu. Conference topic was 'Science in social media - between entertainment and noise?'. In addition to presentations [...]

Madli Jõks and Meelis Pärtel used a computer simulation for studying the plant communities on the Hawaiian Islands, Galapagos Islands, Canary Islands, Cape Verde and the Azores. The simulation imitated [...]

Our workgroup autumn seminar was held on 1st-2nd of November in Carl Schmidti Maja, Põltsamaa. The topic was this time 'grant applications' as many of us are planning to apply [...]

Together with the Plant Ecology Lab and several collaborators from abroad we have initiated the Dark Diversity Network (DarkDivNet). DarkDivNet is a coordinated global sampling network to explore the dark [...]

In collaboration with our Swedish colleagues Jan Plue and Sara Cousins, Tsipe was a co-author in an article about domestic animals enhancing plant dispersal among isolated grasslands in Stockholm archipelago, [...]

Between 13-14th of October the Department of Botany organised the second ’Laelatu academy’ event. The aim was to discuss if continuous cover forestry can be realistic solution for species-rich and [...]

Sabrina Träger received the Mobilitas Pluss postdoctoral research grant from the Estonian Research Council for her project "The effect of landscape configuration on the functional connectivity of Primula veris - [...]

Sabrina and Liis participated at the SER Europe 11th biannual conference, Restoration in the Era of Climate Change held in Reykjavík, Iceland 9-13 September 2018. Liis introduced the Estonian large-scale [...]

New doctoral student, Iris Reinula, has joined our workgroup. One of the aims of her doctoral thesis is to find out if genetic diversity reacts to landscape change with a [...]

On 31st of August Meelis was an invited member of the defence committee of Yongjie Liu doctoral thesis at the University of Antwerpen. The title of the thesis was ‘Effects [...]