A dedicated HN meeting was held in Yamal 19-21 September 2019.
The meeting consisted of parallel workshops on projects initiated within the Herbivory Network, including the development of standardized protocols and work on data from experimental sites in Yamal, but also provided some space for discussion of new ideas and brief presentations of ongoing projects. The meeting also included a public lecture on herbivory in tundra ecosystems, open to the public, and an amazing field trip to a low arctic long-term monitoring site in Erkuta.
The meeting was hosted by the Arctic Research Station of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (more info about the station in English and Russian). The station is situated in the rapidly developing town of Labytnangi, in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District.
The meeting was organized by Sasha Sokolov, Natalya Sokolova, Svetlana Sokovnina, Eeva Soininen, Dorothee Ehrich, Nicolas Lecomte and Isabel C Barrio.
We are very grateful for the support received from IASC towards travel costs of early career scientists and from the Government of Yamal, also for a very warm welcome to the town of Labytnangi.
Archived documents: you can find the meeting agenda and the extended meeting report here. You can also find earlier documents: the invitation to the meeting and the preliminary plan for the meeting.
Support for this meeting was received from the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and the Government of Yamal.
