Nordic Oikos conference in Trondheim

Aveliina, Liis and Liina participated at the Nordic Oikos conference 2018, held in Trondheim, Norway, 19-22 February. Aveliina gave a presentation titled ’Extinction debt of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi on declining grasslands’. She was also invited to share her ideas in a panel debate “The importance of ecological science in society “– Or: How can ecology and ecologists make a difference? Liis made a poster presentation about the disappearance of good dispersers from European grasslands. Liina had also a poster presentation about the winners and losers in European grasslands.
The theme of the conference was “The importance of ecological science in society”, with a solid focus on the need for fundamental ecological science. There were excellent keynote speakers and days full of exciting presentations.