Author: Stephan Kambach

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…

We are very happy to announce that a preprint of our study on the local trends of plant diversity across European vegetation time series is now publicly available at Researchsquare. We would like to thank the thousands of researchers that contributed data to the ReSurvey Initiative and the TRY Plant Trait Database.

Our MOTIVATE-postdoc Tracy Hruska (University of Oulu) accompanied the fieldwork of Work Package 3 (University of Oviedo) in the wonderful mountains of Spain. As part of Work Package 6, Tracy is documenting the methods, goals, as well as the social context, motivation, and personal experiences of botanical experts the perform the field work needed to…

If you would like to cooperate with MOTIVATE or contribute vegetation data to the European Vegetation Archive, please contact us and have a look at our data management plan.

We are very happy to announce that our 2025 MOTIVATE workshop will be co-ordinated in collaboration with the 4th workshop of the sPlot global vegetation database. The sPlot workshop will bring together 50 researchers from around the world to discuss current and future projects using this global vegetation database. Together with MOTIVATE, we strive to…