From 18–20 March 2026, we held our annual meeting in the beautiful and snowy city of Vienna. We were delighted to welcome the following guests and speakers:
Gilles Colling presented his PhD research on “Reconstructing the Patterns of Alien Plant Species Habitat Niche Expansion” (gillescolling.com).
Shuya Fan gave an extensive overview of her findings on “Plant community thermophilization across habitats in Europe”(www.forestinvasion.cz/team/shuya-fan).
Adam Clark provided engaging insights int the “Impacts of observation error on estimates of vegetation dynamics and biodiversity change” (www.adamclarktheecologist.com).
Jacopo Iaria introduced “PlotDEM: an open and reproducible relocation tool for quasi-permanent vegetation plots in mountain areas” (www.unibo.it/sitoweb/jacopo.iaria/en).
Gabriele Midolo presented an overview on the “Research outcomes and current progress of the GRAssland Communities Experiment (GRACE): 300 years of insight from a large-scale natural experiment”(gmidolo.github.io, www.adamclarktheecologist.com/research/grace).
