On 6th of September, Slendy Rodríguez-Alarcón successfully defended her thesis "Intraspecific trait diversity in plants: characterizing effects of trait variation on community assembly and ecosystem functioning" and was awarded with the [...]
We are happy to welcome our new PhD student Daria Panasiuk! Daria recieved her MSc degree in Tartu University where she studied the paleobiology of algae. In the macroecology workgroup, [...]
The 12th International Conference of Mycorrhiza took place on 4-9 August in Manchester, UK. This was the 12th conference where mycorrhiza researchers from all the world got together to share [...]
We are happy to welcome Jing Yang, our new visiting research fellow in functional ecology! She was also visiting us in March-May, but now is staying for a longer time. [...]
On a sunny morning on 8th May we headed from Tartu to Laelatu in Western Estonia for our workgroup spring seminar. The topic of the seminar was DarkDivNet and we [...]
On 1 May, Carlos Carmona started a position as a functional ecology professor in the Department of Botany of University of Tartu! Carlos has worked at the University of Tartu [...]
We are very happy when our former postdocs and researchers have a chance to visit us in Tartu. And it was a really nice coincidence that Rob Lewis, Jon Bennett [...]
Carlos held an opening meeting of his European Research Council grant project "Integrating above- and below-ground plant traits for improved ecological forecasting" on 21st March in Southern Estonia. Together with [...]
We are excited to welcome Jing Yang who is visiting our workgroup from March to May 2024. Jing is a postdoctoral fellow at East China Normal University. In her research [...]
On March 7th, the Department of Botany at the University of Tartu organized already the second Eco Fair for bachelor's and master's degree students. At the event, students had the [...]