TIBS conference

The new year had a productive start for our workgroup since from 6th to 10th January we participated in the 12th Biannual Conference of the International Biogeography Society in Aarhus, Denmark. Our workgroup was represented by Meelis, Juni, Mats, Riin, Oscar and Daria. Oscar gave talked about his research on soil fungi in the city of Tartu, and Daria introduced her PhD results about the habitat preferences of European plants in a poster session. Others introduced the concept of dark diversity - both in a parallel session "Biodiversity, Dark Diversity, and Anthropogenic Effects," led by Riin, where Meelis and Juni gave talks, as well as in the poster session where Riin and Mats introduced some results about the dark diversity of plants and fungi.