On 29th-30th October we had our autumn seminar together with the Macroecology workgroup where we used to belong. It was already the 25th science retreat for our workgroups and this time we gathered in Võru in the beautiful hotel Tamula. The first day was filled with many great presentations focused on applied projects in macroecology and landscape biodiversity. We were happy to have the former researcher of Macroecology workgroup Robert Szava-Kovats as a guest presenter. Robert is currently working in the Estonian Marine Institute and he introduced us some of the cool applied projects from their institute. The next day we had a nice walk around Võru and enjoyed the first snow of the season.