100 Year Jubilee

November 9, 2023

To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the SVS, we held a full-day symposium with the theme "Past, present, and future of plant ecology and geography in the Nordic region".  The event featured invited speakers, interesting discussions, and fun activities including a celebratory dinner at Upplands Nation.

(Note: Ingvar Backéus recently completed an article based on his presentation at this symposium about the history of the SVS, "Swedish Phytogeographical Society 1923–2023: the first 100 years".  Read the article here!)

In-person venue: Friessalen, Uppsala University

Symposium Program

• 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome

• 9:15 - 10:30 Historical Perspectives

  • A brief history of the SVS (Ingvar Backéus, Uppsala U.)

  • Historical perspectives of plant geography and ecology in the Nordic region (Lars Ericson, Umeå U.)

• 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

• 11:00 - 12:00 Scientific Symposium on Plant Ecology & Geography

  • Signe Normand (Aarhus U., Denmark) "Cross-scale integration for understanding biodiversity dynamics"

  • Anna-Liisa Laine (U. Helsinki, Finland) "How does plant diversity affect disease"

• 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

• 13:15 - 14:15 Scientific Symposium on Plant Ecology & Geography

  • Inger Alsos (The Arctic U., Norway) "Fennoscandian ecosystems through time as revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA"

  • Sara Cousins (Stockholm U., Sweden) "Erosion of plant diversity across landscapes – How much, how soon?"

• 14:15 - 14:45 Fika (The formal SVS Fall meeting will take place 14:15-14:30)

• 14:45 - 15:30 Students / Postdocs speed talks

• 15:30 - 16:30 Panel discussion

  • Past, present, and future of plant geography in the Nordic region

• 18:00 - 21:00 Dinner (Upplands Nation)