Every few years, the PhD students from the botany department have a chance to participate in a field course about plant geography. They travel to Tenerife in the Canary Islands [...]

Our PhD student Bruno together with several other workgroup members recently published a paper in Diversity and Distributions. In the context of the biodiversity crisis, the control of non-native species [...]

Diego published a new paper in the Journal of Biogeography. This paper is a result of the time he spent in Czech Republic attending the biannual Quantitative Ecology Module held in České [...]

Now that we work in the same building together with all the botanists and zoologists of the University of Tartu, we can easily meet other workgroups. On 22nd March our [...]

We published our annual newsletter of the current status of the DarkDivNet project for the year 2022! We have 154 study areas from 126 research teams in our records, and from 110 [...]

Just before the anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, Rector of the University of Tartu, Toomas Asser announced the university’s 2021 contribution to society award, contribution to research award and [...]

Based on the submitted proposals, a committee formed by the University of Tartu Student Union has chosen the recipients of the best teaching staff awards of 2021. At the Faculty of [...]

After a few years of limited conference possibilities, several of our workgroup members attended the 64th Annual Symposium of International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) in person this year. The conference was [...]

As part of covering the science and scientists of the Global South, Forbes Science wrote a nice story about our PhD student Slendy Rodríguez-Alarcón. Slendy is originally from Colombia but [...]

Until now, the workgroups of the UT botany department were distributed into different buildings in Tartu (our workgroup was located in the botanical gardens). But the long-awaited move into the [...]