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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Between 11th-16th December, our PhD student Oscar participated in the course "Species Traits: A Functional Approach To Biodiversity, From Organisms To Ecosystems" which took place in the mountains near Valencia, [...]

Our annual workgroup seminar took place on 6th-7th December in Kadrina manor in Tartu county. The topic of the seminar was 'Macroecology of biodiversity belowground'. From our workgroup Meelis, Oscar, [...]