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August 13, 2025

Summer fieldwork by the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup brings science into Estonian nature

This summer, the workgroup’s months are once again filled with fieldwork, taking researchers, students, and assistants to fields, meadows, and…

June 6, 2025

Undergraduate students from the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup successfully defended their theses

Yesterday, 14 undergraduate students from the Department of Botany defended their bachelor's theses. Five of them were supervised by researchers…

June 2, 2025

The Young Nature Conservationist Badge was awarded to communications specialist Katariina Kuusaru

Katariina Kuusaru studies hedgehogs in urban environments and is leading a campaign to make Tartu a better habitat for hedgehogs.…

April 23, 2025

Maarjamõisa field will get more biodiverse with the participation of the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup

Researchers from the University of Tartu and the City of Tartu are designing a Maarjamõisa field as a nature-rich green…

February 10, 2025

SERE2024 has been awarded the 2024 Conference Achievement of the Year Award in Estonia

The Estonian Convention Bureau’s Conference Deed of the Year 2024 award in Tartu was presented to the European Conference on Ecological Restoration (SERE2024).…

February 4, 2025

Aveliina Helm’s Portrait Film Maintains an Affirmative Note Despite a Tumultuous Title

This time, the portrait film competition will feature a film about Aveliina Helm, a professor of restoration ecology at the…

January 20, 2025

Vote for the best heritage meadow caretaker!

This year, the caretakers of Estonia’s heritage meadows, which are among our oldest ecosystems and home to half of Estonia’s…

December 16, 2024

Estonian macrolichens are more threatened than microlichens

With the participation of Polina Degtjarenko, Researcher of Restoration Ecology of the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup, a comprehensive overview of the…

November 25, 2024

Oliver Kalda was awarded the best presentation award at the Doctoral Conference of the Department of Botany

At the department's doctoral student conference held every two years, Oliver Kalda, a junior researcher at the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup,…

October 31, 2024

A hegde in the Postirõõmu field is supporting the biodiversity

A 130-metre hedge was planted in the field of the Mäemõisa in the municipality of Rakke to support biodiversity in…

October 23, 2024

One of the largest beetles in Estonia - the Hermit beetle - is under monitoring by the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup

In the Estonian-Latvian joint project WoodmeadowLIFE, one of the activities is also the monitoring of biodiversity, environmental conditions and the…

September 18, 2024

At the annual event for bat researchers, both the evolution of the species and the human impact was discussed

The event of the conference series "16th European Bat Research Symposium" (EBRS), which brings together European bat researchers, took place…

September 2, 2024

Under the leadership of the Landscapes Biodiversity Workgroup the international conference SERE2024 focused on the ecological restoration took place

SERE2024, an international conference focusing on ecological restoration, was held in Tartu last week, bringing together nearly 700 scientists, practitioners…

August 19, 2024

Restoration of semi-natural grasslands boosts biodiversity and re-creates hotspots for ecosystem services

As a result of a recent study, the significant impact of grassland restoration on biodiversity, ecosystem service provision and climate…

August 18, 2024

At the International Mycology Congress, the proposal of using the fungal DNA sequences and genomes as nomenclatural types was rejected

This year, the 12th International Mycological Congress (IMC12) " took place in Maastricht during the second week of August. Alongside…

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