Workgroup members at the IAVS 2022 conference

After a few years of limited conference possibilities, several of our workgroup members attended the 64th Annual Symposium of International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) in person this year. The conference was held on June 27th – July 1st in Madrid, Spain. Among the ~200 in-person and ~50 virtual participants were also Meelis, Riin, Kersti, Juni, Enrico, Eleonora and Bruno from our workgroup. Meelis and Riin presented the first results from our global DarkDivNet project, Kersti talked about observed and dark biodiversity in Estonian forests, Juni introduced a modelling approach to estimate dark diversity potential for different sites, Enrico presented the global plant taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity patterns, Eleonora talked about sand dune spectral diversity, and Bruno gave a poster presentation about using dark diversity to study species invasions. It was nice to meet friends and colleagues again in person, and discuss scientific results with participants from all over the world.