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28.04.2023
New paper about forest biodiversity simulations
Madli, Meelis, Kersti, and Ene, in collaboration with other scientists from Tartu University and the Estonian University of Life Sciences, published a new study in Ecological Modelling. This study explores the [...]
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14.12.2022
National Research Contest for University Students 2022
Karl Hendrik Tamkivi, who wrote his Bachelor thesis in our workgroup, was just awarded a first prize at the National Research Contest for University Students! He got the award in [...]
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20.04.2023
Workgroup spring seminar 2023
We had our workgroup spring seminar in Laelatu field station on 18th-19th April. This time, the topic of the seminar was 'Data science and data in macroecology' and from our [...]
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18.04.2023
New paper about nature's impact on human health
A new paper is published in the Clinical & Experimental Allergy where researchers from the Children’s Clinic of Tartu University Hospital and from the UT Department of Botany collaborate to study [...]
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17.04.2023
New paper about dark diversity affinity
Juni and Meelis have just published a new paper about Dark Diversity Affinity (DDA) in Methods in Ecology and Evolution. This paper proposed a metric, DDA, to scale affinities of [...]
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11.04.2023
Eco students fair
On 3rd April the botany department of the University of Tartu organised an Eco students fair for Bachelor and Master level students, where all department workgroups were able to introduce [...]
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23.03.2023
Meeting with the entomologists
Macroecology workgroup tries to regularly meet with other workgroups from the University of Tartu to discuss collaboration opportunities. This week, we met with the members of the Chair of Entomology [...]
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22.02.2023
Meelis was awarded with an Estonian state decoration
Leading to the celebration of the Estonian Independence Day on 24th February, President Alar Karis honoured 167 people with state decorations, among them several scientists. We are very happy that [...]
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20.02.2023
Enrico visited the MOBI lab in Czechia
Enrico visited the Modelling of Biodiversity Laboratory (MOBI Lab) led by Petr Keil on 8th-13th February. The group is based at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Czech [...]
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26.01.2023
New paper about diversity dynamics over millennial time scales
Diego has just published the last chapter of his PhD thesis in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. In this paper, Diego together with Carlos, Meelis and Triin (from [...]
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