DarkDivNet 2022 workshop

The global field sampling network, DarkDivNet, was established three years ago, and every year we have organised a small conference or meeting for all participants. This year the workshop took place on 29th September - 2nd October in Tartu as an hybrid conference, so there were participants visiting Tartu and those that joined online. At the workshop, Meelis, Carlos and Riin introduced current results for several planned papers. Also, the results from DarkDivNet add-on studies were introduced by Miriam Munoz-Rojas (Soil-DarkDivNet) and Kristin Ludewig and Lotte Korell (Seed-DarkDivNet). In total, about 80 people participated in the event, including the DarkDivNet Advisory Board members, network participants and our workgroup members. Those who couldn't participate in the workshop on the day had a chance to catch up with recorded presentations later. After the interesting and intense workshop there was an excursion from Tartu to Laelatu where the participants visited Loodi primeval valley, Soomaa national park, restored alvar grassland (part of the LIFE project), and Laelatu wooded meadow.