This all started back in 2013 at a meeting of the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) in Davos, Switzerland. Very much inspired by the model of other collaborative tundra research initiatives, like ITEX and ShrubHub, we decided that we had to do something about herbivory!
We organized a workshop at the Arctic Science Summit Week 2014 in Helsinki, where the Herbivory Network was officially born. Since then, we have been getting together at different conferences, field sites and other random locations to discuss tundra herbivory and beyond. It has been an exciting (and productive) journey, and we are sure it will continue to be so!
Starting group
Isabel C Barrio, Agricultural University of Iceland 
Guillermo Bueno, University of Tartu 
Virve Ravolainen, Norwegian Polar Institute 
Martin Mörsdorf, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
David S Hik, Simon Fraser University 
Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir, University of Iceland
And some key additions
Eeva Soininen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
James Speed, NTNU 
Maria Väisänen, University of Oulu and University of Lapland