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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…

August 14, 2024

The Madrid Declaration sets plant diversity as a prerequisite for a sustainable future

The topics raised for a speech at the XX International Botanical Congress in Madrid ranged from systematics and biodiversity to…

August 1, 2024

During the study trip to Ireland, they learned about implementing the result-based support measure

In June, researchers, policymakers, and farmers associated with the "Comprehensive management of forest and farming landscapes to improve the conservation…

July 28, 2024

Meeting of the project on the restoration of semi-natural grasslands and agricultural fields led to alvar grassland in Muhu and Saaremaa

The international project “Interactive effects of local and landscape scale restoration of semi-natural grasslands and agricultural fields on species interactions…

July 23, 2024

The Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup welcomed colleagues from Malta

Two Maltese researchers, supported by the research exchange program Erasmus+, visited the Landscape Biodiversity Workgroup and participated in fieldwork in the…

June 4, 2024

Iris Reinula defends her doctoral thesis in botany and mycology on the genetic variability of grassland plants in changing landscapes

On 17 June at 10:15 Iris Reinula will defend her doctoral thesis "Genetic variation of grassland plants in changing landscapes" for…

May 31, 2024

Spring Gotland captivates with flower and species-rich wooded meadows

On a study trip to Gotland, scientists and environmental experts got to know the wooded meadows there and exchanged knowledge…

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