As part of the Arctic Biodiversity Congress in Rovaniemi, we had a Herbivory Network side meeting. 22 participants attended the meeting, which covered general updates and discussed some new ideas, like organizing the next HN meeting in Yamal. The side meeting included a workshop on using revisitation sites to study the combined effect of vertebrate herbivory and climate change on tundra vegetation, organized by Fran Jaroszynska (University of Bergen) and Katariina Vuorinen (NTNU).
As well, HN hosted a session during the congress, titled Herbivory in the Arctic – understanding large-scale patterns and processes of a key ecological interaction. The session included presentations by Isabel C Barrio (Agricultural University of Iceland), Eeva Soininen (UiT – The ArcticUniversity of Norway), Virve Ravolainen (Norwegian Polar Institute), Elin Lindén (Umeå University) and Katarina Inga (UiT – The Arctic Universityof Norway).
Bruce Forbes chaired a session titled Large herbivores as agents of ecosystem based management in the circumpolar Arctic, which included talks by Tim Horstkotte (Umeå University), Howard Epstein (University of Virginia), Shirow Tatsuzawa (Hokkaido University/North-Eastern Federal University), Maria Väisänen (University of Oulu) and Virve Ravolainen (Norwegian Polar Institute).
Thank you all for great talks!