The Doctoral Conference of the Department of Botany was held on 6th November. All 2nd and 3rd year PhD students had a chance to present their recent findings to other [...]

We are happy to welcome another new member to our workgroup! Junichi Fujinuma is starting his two-year postdoctoral researcher position in the Macroecology workgroup. In his project 'Uniting species and [...]

We are happy to welcome a new member to our workgroup! Anne started her PhD studies in September. She is supervised by Aurèle, and she will study freshwater fish and [...]

We are happy to welcome a new member to our workgroup! Eleonora started her PhD studies in September. She is supervised by Carlos, and her doctoral studies focus on the [...]

With several members of our workgroup and our collaborators from the landscape biodiversity workgroup we decided to visit Meelis one september afternoon. During the lovely gathering we discussed our summer [...]

This summer our PhD student Slendy conducted a greenhouse experiment growing ~50 grassland plant species in different soil moisture levels and measuring their aboveground and belowground traits. The experiment ran [...]

The floristics field course was held in Tartu and surrounding areas this summer. The course was thought in two groups and supervised by several members of our department. From our [...]

Although we had to skip our traditional workgroup trip to Laelatu this year, then we managed to have a 5-day writing retreat with a smaller group of people. Carlos, Aurele, [...]

On 6th May we held our spring seminar together with the Landscape Biodiversity workgroup. When in previous years our spring seminar has taken place in Laelatu in western Estonia, where [...]

Meelis and Aveliina (Landscape biodiversity workgroup) have led the development of a new web-based application to estimate how well landscapes support biodiversity. The easy to use application Rohemeeter (currently in [...]