ANNUAL REPORT 2020
WORKSHOPS and conferences 2020 Nordic Society Oikos conference in Reykjavik The 4th biannual conference of the Nordic Society Oikos, hosted by the Icelandic Ecological Society, was held in Reykjavik, Iceland, from the 2nd to the 5th of March. Before the main conference started, the Oikos journal hosted the Per Brinck symposium, which revolved around the topic of ecological networks. Themed “Ecology in the Anthropocene”, this year’s Oikos conference had a major focus on human impacts on ecology and evolution. The Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, which was involved in the organization of the previous conference in Trondheim, took the opportunity to share its latest research with other researchers from across all Nordic countries. The conference was attended by around 350 participants, and 150 talks and 130 posters were presented. CBD was well represented among the participants; over a dozen of our researchers and students contributed with talks and posters. During the conference, excursions were organized to visit some of the local gems, such as the natural history museum in Perlan, a prominent landmark overlooking Reykjavik, and the “smoking” Reykjanes peninsula, southwest of the capital.
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Iceland truly represented a completely new and unique landscape for many of us! CBD would like to congratulate the organizers of this conference for their amazing job.
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