Macroecology conference in Switzerland

Between 10th-13th of April, Meelis and Aurèle participated in the annual meeting of macroecologists hosted by the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Birmendorf. The theme of the conference was 'Macroecolgy in the age of big data'. Aurèle presented his study about the global co-variation of diversity in plants and mycorrhizal fungi and Meelis presented the study he made together with Argo Ronk (his former PhD student) about the plant diversity patterns in Europe. During this conference, they had very interesting talks with a lot of researchers, updating their knowledge on the development of new methods and approches thanks to excellent keynotes and exciting presentations. They recommend this conference to everybody interested in macroecology and big data to meet the top researchers in this field.