This year the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) Annual Symposium 2024 took place in Funchal, in Madeira Island, Portugal, from the 16th to the 20th of September 2024. The theme [...]

On September 12th, the Department of Botany at the University of Tartu organized an Eco Fair for students who may be interested in joining a workgroup in the department. This [...]

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, [...]

In search of a better knowledge about plant functional traits, many of our workgroup members did summer fieldwork in Estonia as part of the TraitDivNet project. Combating hot weather, mosquitos, [...]

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 [...]