Events

We host two member meetings each year (typically in March and November). Both occasions start with a formal meeting where members are updated on recent activities of the society, discuss changes and upcoming publications. When the meeting is closed, an invited speaker gives a seminar followed by an informal dinner.

Upcoming Events

13 November 2025 (SVS Fall meeting)

Time: Meeting at 17:00, followed by seminar and dinner

Where: Room 1003 at the Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University

Seminar speaker: Johan Ehrlén (Stockholm University) "Local adaptation at small spatial scales, reviewing studies of herbs in geothermally heated ecosystems on Iceland"

Click here to register to attend the dinner

18 March 2026 (SVS Annual Spring meeting)

Time: Meeting at 17:00, followed by seminar and dinner

Where: Room 1003 at the Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University

Seminar speaker: Zuzana Münzbergová (Charles University and Czech Academy of Science)

Past meetings, speakers, and excursions

10 April, 2025 (SVS Annual Meeting)

Seminar speaker: Dr. Caroline Greiser

Hiding from the climate – finding, protecting and creating climate refugia

14 November, 2024 (SVS Fall meeting)

Seminar speaker: Dr. Natasha de Vere

Plants and pollinators: investigating the plants used by bees and flies through the seasons and over historical time

25 April, 2024 (Annual SVS Meeting)

Seminar: Dr. Julia Tavares

Amazon forest sensitivity to climate change

9 November, 2023 (SVS 100 Year Jubilee)

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 Uplands Nation. See the full program here.  A photo album will be available in the future...

12 April, 2023 (Annual SVS Meeting)

Seminar: Dr. Mario Vallejo-Marin

Rapid evolution in an invasive plant: The curious case of the Scottish monkeyflower

22 November, 2022 (SVS Autumn meeting)

Seminar: Dr. Judith Trunschke

Plant functional diversity and bumblebee pollination in the Hengduan Mountains of Southwest China

1-2 July, 2022 (Excursion to Engsö)

De Rödlistade Engsöblommornas helg 2-3/7 i samarbete med SNF (Västeråskretsen), Upplands Botaniska Förening och Engsö hembygdsförening. Ledare är Anders Hasselrot, Ingvar Sundh och Flor Rhebergen.  See more photos here!

7 April, 2022 (SVS Annual Meeting)

Prof. Francesco Spada, Sapienza University of Rome

Evidence for the native status of  Styrax officinalis (L.) in Italy: the long  history of a hypothesis

18 November, 2021 (SVS Autumn Meeting)

Kevin Nota, PhD student in the Department of Plant Ecology & Evolution, Uppsala University

Reconstructing flora from ancient sedimentary DNA

17 June, 2021

Professor Francesco Spada, Sapienza University of Rome

A virtual field excursion in Italy: Travel with us along a longitudinal transect from the Circeo mountain on the west coast of the Italian peninsula to the Gargano promontory in the east.

6 May, 2021

Dr. Øystein Opedal, Associate Senior Lecturer at Lund University

The geographic comparative approach to understanding evolution: a virtual field trip

15 April, 2021 (Annual Meeting & Webinar)

Dr. Anne Bjorkman, Senior Lecturer at Gothenburg University and Wallenberg Academy Fellow

Climate change in the Arctic: how plants are responding and what that means for the rest of the planet

4 February, 2021

Dr. Milan Chytrý, Professor of Botany at Masaryk University in Czech Republic

Steppe-tundra: tracing the remnants of a vanished Pleistocene ecosystem in the current landscapes of Siberia.

19 November 2020

Jens-Christian Svenning, Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World, Department of Biology, Aarhus University

Macroecological perspectives on plant diversity in a changing world

26 Mars 2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the annual meeting was held online and no talk was given.

7 November 2019

Eugenio Santiago Valentin, University of Puerto Rico

Beyond coffee, rum and beaches: A peek at the enchanting flora of Puerto Rico.

9 April 2019

Jill Pelto, University of Maine

Outreaching in Science using Art.

8 November, 2018, 17.00

Annika Hofgaard, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim

Treeline ecotone dynamics: causes, consequenses and study approaches.

22 March, 2018, 18.00

Per Milberg, Linköpings universitet

A century old grassland legacy revealed in clearcuts.

5 October, 2017, 18.00

Honor Prentice, Lund University

Genes & species, ecology & adaptation, history & landscape: 33 years of biodiversity research on Öland.

30 March, 2017, 18.00

Sebastian Sundberg, Artdatabanken, SLU

ArtDatabanken [Swedish Species Information Centre], a national hub for nature conservation and species knowledge.

8 November, 2016, 18.00

Inger Alsos Greve, Tromsø University, Norge

Postglacial plant colonization of Northwest Europe.

17 March, 2016. 18.00

At the annual meeting the future of the society and in particular the management of the Lundman funds was discussed.

26 November, 2015. 18.00

Anders Granström, SLU, Umeå: The Västmanland fire 2014. Worst Swedish case in 100+ years, but what are the ecological lessons to be learnt here?

16 April, 2015, 18.30.

Per Toräng, Plant Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University: Växters anpassningar i alpina miljöer - exempel från den fleråriga örten fjälltrav.

26 November, 2014, 18.30.

Ingvar Backéus, Plant Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University: St. Helena – paradise lost?

12 March, 2014, 18.30.

Carl-Adam Hæggström, Helsingfors University (previously director of the Nåtö biological Station station, Åland): Löväng och skottskog, exempel på ett hållbart utnyttjande av naturen.

20 November, 2013, 18.30.

José María Fernández-Palacios, La Laguna-University, Teneriffa: Island biogeography: from equilibrium to disequilibrium theories.

13 March, 2013, 18.30.

Magne Friberg, Plant Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University: B lomdoft i en geografisk mosaik av växt-insektinteraktioner.

29 March, 2012, 18.30.

Jon Ågren, Plant Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University: Växters anpassning till den omgivande miljön: ekologiska och genetiska mekanismer.

1 december, 2011, 18.30.

Jerry Skoglund, SLU: Tanzanisk vegetation – En exkursion med Svenska Växtgeografiska Sällskapet.

1 december, 2011, 13.00.

John Bishop, Washington State University, Vancouver: The role of insect herbivores and nutrient stoichiometry in volcanic primary succession - A paradox of enrichment?

31 March, 2011, 18.30.

Laura Parducci, Plant Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University: Norway spruce migration in Scandinavia.

18 November, 2010, 18.30.

Sophie Karrenberg, Plant Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University: Habitat adaptation.

24 March, 2010, 18.30.

Kjell Bolmgren, Svenska fenologinätverket (SWE-NPN): I kontakt med ekologins rötter - fenologiska mönster, kraftig dynamik och förhoppningen att göra förutsägelser.

12 November, 2009, 18.30.

Kristoffer Hylander, Botaniska institutionen, Stockholms universitet: Kaffe - en nyckelart för biologisk mångfald i västra Etiopien.

24 March, 2009, 18.30.

Urban Emanuelsson, Centrum för biologisk mångfald (CBM): Utmarker i Europa och hur människan påverkat dem under 1000 år.

13 November, 2008, 18.30.

Per Linder, Fastighetsverket, Umeå: Hur sköter staten sina fjällskogar och kungsgårdar?

13 March 2008, 18.30.

Jan Bakker, Groningen, Nederländerna: Foraging, breeding and migrating along the East-Atlantic Flyway.

13 december 2007, 18.30.

Martin Lascoux, Plant Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University: Past demography of forest trees: what can we learn from nuclear DNA sequences that we do not already know?

15 March 2007, 18.30.

Francesco Spada, Plant Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University: Vegetation i centrala Italien.

23 November 2006.

Lars Östlund, Skoglig vegetationsekologi, SLU, Umeå: Kulturpåverkade urskogar i norra Sverige – nya tolkningar av ekologi och arkeologi i gamla tallskogar.

16 March 2005.

Regina Lindborg, Stockholms University: Hur kan vi bevara artrikedomen i naturbetesmarkerna – effekter av historisk och nutida markanvändning.