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 [...]

This year the 12th International Conference on Biological Invasions (NEOBIOTA) took place in Tartu, Estonia on 12th-16th September. From our workgroup Bruno and Meelis participated in the event, and Bruno [...]

The INTECOL 2022 conference took place in Geneva, Switzerland on Aug 28 - Sep 2. From our workgroup, Slendy participated in the workshop with a presentation on the topic "Intraspecific [...]

We have a new member in our workgroup - Blanca Luz Caleño Ruiz started her PhD studies at the University of Tartu in September. Blanca is from Colombia and her [...]

Professor Pablo Peri, the National Coordinator of INTA in Argentina, visited us on August 30th and 31st to discuss our current collaborations (DarkDivNet and TraitDivNet) and future plans. Prof. Peri had one-on-one and group [...]

This year the New Phytologist next generation scientists' meeting took place on 19th-22nd July here in Tartu, and from our workgroup Diego and Enrico participated in this great event. Both presented their [...]

Our PhD student Slendy, together with her supervisors Carlos and Riin, published a new paper in Functional Ecology.  Many regions in the world are expected to become drier in the future [...]