On 2nd-3rd May, we had our spring seminar together with the Landscape biodiversity workgroup in western Estonia. The seminar was about methods in ecology and we heard many interesting talks [...]

Estonian Naturalist Society held their 45th Theoretical Biology spring school on 26th-29th April in southern Estonia. This year's topic was biogeography and there were presentations about the distribution of animals, [...]

Meelis was a coauthor on a paper led by the Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography group at the University of Göttingen, Germany. They developed a new method to calculate species pools [...]

Riin was a co-author on a new publication about the latitudinal gradient in seed dispersal distances. They collected available georeferenced data about seed dispersal distances in the literature and found [...]

DarkDivNet2019 workshop will be held on 20-23 November in Tartu. November, with its gloomy weather, is an ideal time to discuss dark diversity topics. There will be many interesting talks [...]

Doctoral School of Earth Sciences and Ecology organised a course "Laws of the altitudinal zones of vegetation: Evolution, ecology and human impact" in Tenerife. From our workgroup Ene, Ülle and [...]

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 [...]