Conference Time: 1st May 2025, 07:53:22pm CEST
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8:00am Pre-Congress tour 2: San Marino: between culture and nature Location: San Marino
9:00am Training Course 122: Learn to assess your conservation effectiveness: an introduction to the Conservation Standards Location: Room A East - Via Irnerio, 42 Chair: Nicolas Boenisch Chair: Daniela Aschenbrenner Training Course 165: Introduction to Decision Analysis for Applied Ecology and Conservation Location: Room C - Via Irnerio, 42 Chair: Stefano Canessa Chair: John Ewen Chair: Thalassa McMurdo Hamilton Chair: Bethany Rose Smith Training Course 112: Zonation 5 and prioritizR - practical tools for spatial conservation planning Location: Fondazione Golinelli - Via Paolo Nanni Costa, 14 Chair: Joel Jalkanen Chair: Thiago Cavalcante Chair: Martin Jung Chair: Louise O'Connor
9:30am Tour 1: Bologna Museum Location: Bologna Museums
10:00am Pre-Congress tour 1: Park of (Parco Regionale dei) Gessi Bolognesi e Calanchi dell’Abbadessa Location: Parco dei Gessi e dei Calanchi dell'Abbadessa
11:00am Coffee break Location: Via Irnerio, 42 Coffee break Location: Fondazione Golinelli - Via Paolo Nanni Costa, 14
11:30am Training Course 122-2: Learn to assess your conservation effectiveness: an introduction to the Conservation Standards Location: Room A East - Via Irnerio, 42 Chair: Nicolas Boenisch Chair: Daniela Aschenbrenner Training Course 165-2: Introduction to Decision Analysis for Applied Ecology and Conservation Location: Room C - Via Irnerio, 42 Chair: Stefano Canessa Chair: John Ewen Chair: Thalassa McMurdo Hamilton Chair: Bethany Rose Smith Training Course 112-2: Zonation 5 and prioritizR - practical tools for spatial conservation planning Location: Fondazione Golinelli - Via Paolo Nanni Costa, 14 Chair: Joel Jalkanen Chair: Thiago Cavalcante Chair: Martin Jung Chair: Louise O'Connor
1:00pm Lunch Break 17/06: Lunch Break Location: Lunch break
2:00pm Training Course 122-3: Learn to assess your conservation effectiveness: an introduction to the Conservation Standards Location: Room A East - Via Irnerio, 42 Chair: Nicolas Boenisch Chair: Daniela Aschenbrenner Training Course 135: Disease risk analysis for conservation translocations Location: Room A West - Via Irnerio, 42 Chair: Claudia Carraro Chair: Georgina Gerard Chair: Katie Beckmann Training Course 165-3: Introduction to Decision Analysis for Applied Ecology and Conservation Location: Room C - Via Irnerio, 42 Chair: Stefano Canessa Chair: John Ewen Chair: Thalassa McMurdo Hamilton Chair: Bethany Rose Smith Training Course 112-3: Zonation 5 and prioritizR - practical tools for spatial conservation planning Location: Fondazione Golinelli - Via Paolo Nanni Costa, 14 Chair: Joel Jalkanen Chair: Thiago Cavalcante Chair: Martin Jung Chair: Louise O'Connor
3:00pm Slide Center 17/06: Slide Center Location: Arena del Sole
3:00pm Registration 17/06: Registration and Information Desk Location: Arena del Sole Registration and Information Desk Location: Fondazione Golinelli - Via Paolo Nanni Costa, 14
4:30pm Early-career icebreaker Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
5:30pm Opening Ceremony Location: Arena del Sole Program:
- Conference Co-Chair & President of SCB Italy Chapter, Michela Pacifici
- Conference Co-Chair, Alessandro Chiarucci
- Deputy Mayor for EU funds, climate mission 2030: neutrality and transition, international relations, Anna Lisa Boni
- Rector of the University, Giovanni Molari
- Head of the Department of Biological, Geological & Environmental Sciences, Elena Fabbri
- President of...
6:30pm Plenary: Patty Balvanera: Navigating global to local conservation challenges: a fascinating journey Location: Arena del Sole Chair: Carlo Rondinini At the end of the plenary talk:
Communications on the conference logistics, Michele Lussu
7:30pm Group picture: ECCB 2024 Conference picture Location: Arena del Sole
7:45pm Welcome Cocktail Location: Arena del Sole
8:30am Slide Center 20/06: Slide Center Location: Room Q - Belmeloro Complex
8:30am Registration 20/06: Registration and Information Desk Location: Registration Desk
9:00am Plenary: Nuria Selva: Białowieża calling: A look into conservation through the eyes of a forest Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Marco Musiani
10:00am Parallel sessions 20A: Contributed session: Area-based conservation IV Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Alessandro Chiarucci Parallel sessions 20B: Contributed session: Methods IV Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Andrea Cristiano Parallel sessions 20C: Contributed session: Agroecology IV Location: Room C - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Laura Bosco Parallel sessions 20D: Contributed session: People & Nature V Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Jenny Anne Glikman
Parallel sessions 20E: Contributed session: Policy & Governance III Location: Room E - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Andrew James Bladon Parallel sessions 20F: Contributed session: Genetics & Evolution IV Location: Room F - Belmeloro Complex Chair: João Pedro Meireles Parallel sessions 20G: Contributed session: IAS III Location: Room G - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Nigel Gareth Taylor Parallel sessions 20H: Contributed session: Biodiversity IV Location: Room H - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Juri Nascimbene
Parallel sessions 20I: Contributed session: Biodiversity XIV Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Achaz von Hardenberg
11:00am Poster session and coffee break Location: Zoology Museum Coffee break Location: Catering Points - Belmeloro Complex
12:00pm Parallel sessions 20A 2: Contributed session: Area-based conservation V Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Stefan Kreft Parallel sessions 20B 2: Contributed session: Methods V Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Matilde Martini Parallel sessions 20C 2: Contributed session: Agroecology V Location: Room C - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Laura Bosco Parallel sessions 20D 2: Contributed session: People & Nature VI Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Carlos Bautista
Parallel sessions 20E 2: Contributed session: Policy & Governance IV Location: Room E - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Gabor Lovei Parallel sessions 20F 2: Contributed session: Genetics & Evolution V Location: Room F - Belmeloro Complex Chair: João Pedro Meireles Parallel sessions 20G 2: Contributed session: Methods IX Location: Room G - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Neftalí Sillero Parallel sessions 20H 2: Contributed session: Biodiversity V Location: Room H - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Jacob Heilmann-clausen
Parallel sessions 20I 2: Contributed session: Biodiversity XIX Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Juri Nascimbene
1:00pm Lunch Event 20 1: SCB Europe annual meeting Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex Lunch Break 20/06: Lunch Break Location: Catering Points - Belmeloro Complex
2:30pm Symposium 134: Ethical assessment in conservation projects Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Barbara de Mori Chair: Pierfrancesco Biasetti Chair: Elena Mercugliano Chair: Simone Basile Symposium 123: Digital data for biodiversity conservation: Opportunities, challenges and applications Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Ricardo Correia Chair: Enrico Di Minin Chair: Uri Roll Chair: Ritwik Kulkarni Symposium 124: Drivers of native plant diversity in urban environments Location: Room C - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Katalin Szitár Chair: Peter Batary Symposium 137: Biodiversity-friendly food labels and certification: perspectives for the European agriculture and conservation policy Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Tanja Šumrada
Symposium 167-1: Exploring Europe's role in the international wildlife trade: A multidisciplinary approach to conservation Location: Room E - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Jacqueline Juergens Chair: Anna Haukka Chair: Olivier Boissier Symposium 152: Multifunctional landscapes for people and biodiversity in Sub-Saharan Africa Location: Room F - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Gabriel Marcacci Chair: Margaret Awuor Owuor Symposium 113: Towards an European camera trap network for standardized monitoring of wildlife: where we are, what it is needed Location: Room G - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Francesco Rovero Chair: Fabiola Iannarilli Symposium 136: Toward just and power-sensitive biodiversity conservation Location: Room H - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Lou Lecuyer Chair: Juliette Young
Symposium 156-1: Conservation of freshwater ecosystems: Can we be biodiversity positive by 2030? Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Marco Cantonati Workshop 144-1: Assessing the dynamic demographic resilience of animal populations Location: Room L - Belmeloro Complex Global change presents wildlife with an unprecedented number and variety of challenges, e.g., climate change, novel diseases, urbanization, and hunting. In this context it is important to assess how resilient populations, species, and ecosystems are to disturbances. Such assessments require strong quantitative skills. Resilience is a central concept in ecological theory, and diverse methods have...
4:00pm Tea break and poster display Location: Zoology Museum Tea break 20/06: Tea break Location: Catering Points - Belmeloro Complex
4:30pm Symposium 142: Sharing space in multiple-use landscapes: aligning human and wildlife needs Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Arash Ghoddousi Chair: Ranjini Murali Symposium 121: The use of online digital data to advance invasion science Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Ivan Jaric Chair: Ana Sofia Cabral Cardoso Symposium 120: Laying the groundwork for fungal conservation Location: Room C - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Joette Crosier Chair: Lorin von Longo-Liebenstein Symposium 146: Understanding compliance for fairer conservation Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Freya St John Chair: Harriet Ibbett
Symposium 167-2: Exploring Europe's role in the international wildlife trade: A multidisciplinary approach to conservation Location: Room E - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Jacqueline Juergens Chair: Anna Haukka Chair: Olivier Boissier Symposium 154: Ecological and biogeographical drivers of human-wildlife conflicts under global change Location: Room F - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Carlos Bautista Chair: Nuria Selva Symposium 151: Synthesizing data and knowledge to improve the performance of conservation translocations Location: Room G - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Filipa Coutinho Soares Chair: Anne-Christine Monnet Chair: François Sarrazin At the end of the symposium we will organize a round table with a duration of 30 minutes, in which we will discuss data collection and sharing, performance and challenges of translocation actions, and the importance of collaborative networks.
Symposium 159: The Nature Futures Framework: alternative positive futures for Nature and People Location: Room H - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Claudia Fornarini Chair: Alessandra D'Alessio Chair: Henrique Pereira
Symposium 156-2: Conservation of freshwater ecosystems: Can we be biodiversity positive by 2030? Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Marco Cantonati
6:30pm Mentors-mentee meeting: Speed mentoring Location: Le Serre dei Giardini
8:00pm Margherita Garden Party Location: Le Serre dei Giardini
