News - University of Tartu Landscape Biodiversity Group

June 8, 2021

Students defended their theses

On June 1, students from our work group virtually defended their theses in Department of Botany. Elina Kambrimäe defended her…

June 1, 2021

Tsipe and Iris took part in PopBio conference

The annual Plant Population Biology conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland of 2020 was postponed to…

May 14, 2021

Cowslip campaign is expanding over Europe

The citizen science campaign "Looking for cowslips" organized by our working group is expanding across Europe this year. With the…

March 17, 2021

New members of the work group

Several new people have joined our work group in recent months. Kertu Hool has been working in nature conservation communication…

March 1, 2021

The Estonian soil database EstSoil-EH has launched

The EstSoil-EH database has launched, which contains Estonian soil information and landscape parameters that provide additional information on, for example,…

February 23, 2021

Aveliina was chosen as one of 103 Delfi's Estonian benefactors

To celebrate the anniversary of the Estonian Republic, Delfi chose 103 outstanding Estonian people to introduce to its readers. Delfi…

February 18, 2021

Join the cowslip campaign survey team!

In 2019 we started a citizen science campaign Looking for Cowslips in Estonia. With the help of thousands of people,…

February 11, 2021

HEAPÕLD webpage is now public

We publised a webpage heapold.ee under the LIFE-IP project ForEst&FarmLand, where everyone can get information about nature and climate friendly…

February 4, 2021

Aveliina was a guest in Plekktrumm

Recently, Aveliina was a guest of the ETV show Plekktrumm. The topics of ecological restoration and nature protection were discussed…

January 22, 2021

Tsipe's and Virve Sõber's articles and radio visit about the increase in the pesticide use

Tsipe wrote with Virve Sõber a two-part article about the use of pesticides in Sirp. According to a recent report,…

January 21, 2021

Aveliina wrote about the need of longer focus in Postimees

Aveliina wrote in Postimees about what Estonia's focus could be for decades. Are we moving towards a peaceful world where…

January 12, 2021

Aveliina is one of Sirp's 2020 laureates

Culture paper Sirp thanks its best authors-collaborators every year with the title of laureate. One of the winners of 2020…

January 11, 2021

The Estonian Chamber of Environmental Associations recognized Rohemeeter

Every year, the Estonian Chamber of Environmental Associations (EKO) chooses an environmental act and an environmental ax. The decision of…

January 8, 2021

Sabrina is starting a new position in Germany

After almost four years, sadly, Sabrina’s time in our Landscape Biodiversity group comes to an end. From beginning of 2021,…

January 7, 2021

Call for postdoctoral researchers

Our workgroup is open to host new postdoctoral researchers, who are interested to work on landscape-scale restoration, conservation, spatial planning,…

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