Thank you to everyone who joined us in Leysin for the 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions.
We are delighted to congratulate the winner of the poster prize, one runner up and five honourable mentions.
Poster prize winner
Lena Sachsenmaier
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig & Leipzig University, Germany
Poster 57: Stomatal behaviour across 38 tree species is not explained by commonly measured leaf traits
Poster prize runner up
Eva Kubove
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Poster 31: Dual removal of ecto- and ericoid mycorrhizal fungi stimulates saprotrophs to decompose humus stocks in a boreal pine forest
Honourable mention
Milagros Barcelo
Hasselt University, Belgium
Poster 4: Aboveground vegetation misrepresents global patterns of mycorrhizal dominance: a root-based perspective
Honourable mention
Matilde Maria Bragadini
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Poster 10: Soil microbes contribute to forest carbon stock across secondary succession of tropical moist forest in Panama
Honourable mention
Louis Graup
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Switzerland
Poster 27: Interactions between tree hydraulic strategies and soil water dynamics determine forest drought stress
Honourable mention
Cas Verbeek
Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, the Netherlands
Poster 69: Understories as biodiversity reservoirs for arbuscular mycorrhizal and root endophytic fungi in temperate European forests
Honourable mention
Anita Weissflog
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Poster 75: Insect herbivores and fungi alter seedling dynamics in recovering tropical forests
Photos courtesy of Yadvinder Malhi.