The 4th International Conference on Community Ecology took place on 20-22 September in Trieste, Italy. Carlos, Eleonora, Enrico and Juni from our workgroup were among the over 100 participants from 24 different countries. Carlos was invited to give a plenary talk on the topic "Mapping and exploring trait spaces across the Tree of Life". Eleonora gave a talk titled "Environment drives the position of mammalian species in the global spectrum of life histories" for which she won the Young Community Ecologist Award!