On January 31st, the annual joint winter conference of the Botany and Zoology departments took place, where all PhD students had the opportunity to give 3-minute presentations. This time, we [...]

In January, Mats Otto-Kristian Ittonen started his postdoctoral position in our workgroup! He finished his PhD last year at Stockholm University where he studied evolutionary adaptation during a butterfly species’ [...]

Driven by the mission to tackle Raunkiæran shortfall (lack of knowledge of species traits and functions) and enhance ecological understanding, the TraitDivNet is committed to explore the world's most challenging [...]

Markéta Applová, a PhD student from the Czech Republic is visiting Macroecology workgroup during the month of November. She is supervised jointly by Carlos Carmona and Lars Götzenberger, who has [...]

Every two years the University of Tartu Department of Botany organises a PhD conference where 2nd and 3rd year students present their research. This year the conference took place on [...]

On 15th November Bruno Paganeli got his PhD degree in botany and mycology with his thesis "Dark diversity methods for prioritization of areas and species in nature conservation". The oponent [...]

On 1st November, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences of University of Tartu held a conference on a topic "Redefining Resources". Experts from various departments gathered at the Oecologicum to [...]

We had our workgroup autumn seminar on 15-16 October in Saarjärve Puhkemaja in Põlvamaa. This time the topic of the seminar was 'Evolution and Macroecology' and we heard talks on [...]

Oscar and Meelis, in collaboration with the Soil Ecology Group and other scientists from Tartu University and the Estonian University of Life Sciences, published a new study in Soil Biology and [...]

From September 30th to October 4th Enrico was in Paris for InvaPact II, a workshop aimed to implement a standardized metric, first devised during InvaPact I, to measure the consequences [...]