Within two weeks two of our PhD students have received their degrees! On 26th May, Madli Jõks successfully defended her PhD thesis on the topic "Biodiversity drivers in oceanic archipelagos [...]

We are happy to welcome Davide Barsotti who is visiting our workgroup in May! Davide is a PhD student at the Copenhagen University in Denmark and his thesis topic is [...]

On 12th of May, Diego Trindade successfully defended his thesis "Dark diversity dynamics linked to global change: taxonomic and functional perspective" and was awarded with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [...]

The Laelatu Academy is a seminar and think tank for high school and university students that is organised by the Botany department every spring and autumn. Together with scientists the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]