On 8-10 July, the New Phytologist Symposium "Microbes as Hidden or Prominent Players in Plant Life" took place at the University of Tartu. It was organised by Maarja Öpik and the Institute of Ecology [...]

On 15-19 June, the Ecology of Soil Microorganisms conference was held in Helsinki, Finland. Several researchers from the University of Tartu participated, and Mats represented our workgroup. He presented a [...]

On 3-6 June the joint conference of Iberian Ecological Society (SIBECOL) and the Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology (AEET) was held in Pontevedra, Spain. From our workgroup Carlos, Diego, Eleonora and [...]

Meelis Pärtel is one of the three Estonian scientists who was recently elected to Academia Europaea! Meelis will participate in the academy’s Ecology and Evolution section, where he hopes to strengthen [...]

On June 5th the University of Tartu botany department had a day full of Bachelor's thesis defenses. From our research group three students successfully defended their bachelor’s theses - Mari [...]

This spring semester Oscar spent three months visiting the Kohouti Lab in the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences to collaborate with Petr Kohout who received his [...]

This spring the functional ecology part of our workgroup was very busy, because they were collecting trait data for Mediterranean plant species during the months of April and May. They [...]

On the May 20th, our workgroup spring seminar took place and this time we concentrated on the topic “Genetic and Landscape Data in Macroecology.” Presentations were given by Meelis, Carlos, [...]

On April 25, Estonian Doctoral School held a course for natural and agricultural science PhD students titled "Borders of Ecological Knowledge". Several next-generation scientists from across Europe who have ties [...]

On April 11, University of Tartu celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of professor Viktor Masing (1925-2001), a natural scientist who left an extraordinary mark on the natural and [...]