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, [...]

Our workgroup PhD students Slendy, Oscar and Bruno participated in the science expedition to Réunion island on 7th-24th November. The expedition was organised by the Doctoral School of Earth Sciences [...]

The Department of Botany conference took place on 20th October in Jõgeva county. At the conference, all second and third year doctoral students presented their research and the best presenters [...]

The Laelatu Academy is a seminar and think tank for students that is organised by the Botany department every spring and autumn. High school and university students can get together [...]

The global field sampling network, DarkDivNet, was established three years ago, and every year we have organised a small conference or meeting for all participants. This year the workshop took [...]