Conference in Spain

On 3-6 June the joint conference of Iberian Ecological Society (SIBECOL) and the Spanish Association of Terrestrial Ecology (AEET) was held in Pontevedra, Spain. From our workgroup Carlos, Diego, Eleonora and Enrico participated in the event. Carlos was invited for a plenary talk on the topic "Towards a unified trait space: integrating above- and belowground plant functional diversity". Diego had a talk about his postdoctoral research topic "Species pool functional redundancy enhances local stability in plant communities". In addition, Carlos, Enrico and Eleonora organised a thematic session titled "Expanding the frontiers of trait-based ecology: novel applications across taxa and scales", where Eleonora also gave a talk "Maps of species strategies: addressing dimensions in global trait spaces", and Enrico presented a poster titled "Filling the gaps: evaluating the accuracy and impacts of trait imputation across taxonomic groups".