Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Tuesday, 18/June/2024
7:30am
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8:00am
Morning Dance Lessons
Location: Via Irnerio, 42
8:30am
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6:30pm
Slide Center 18/06: Slide Center
Location: Room Q - Belmeloro Complex
8:30am
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7:00pm
Registration 18/06: Registration and Information Desk
Location: Registration Desk
9:00am
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10:00am
Plenary: Yvonne Buckley: Biodiversity conservation in a warming world: integrating biodiversity and climate action
Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Anne Magurran
10:00am
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11:00am
Poster session and coffee break
Location: Zoology Museum
 

Where do semi-natural habitats remain? Examination of factors related to the presence of semi-natural meadows and woody landscape features in farmland

Živa Alif, Tanja Šumrada



The role of agroecological intensification in meeting food production, sustainable livelihood, and conservation objectives in SE India

Iris Berger, Lynn Dicks



Insect communities erode from extensive grasslands to intensively used farmland and urban areas

Elia Guariento, Emanuale Repetto, Andreas Hilpold



Assessing plant, insect and habitat diversity in the Austrian farmland – the ÖBM-K/BINATS monitoring programme

Kathrin Pascher, Dominik Rabl, Dietmar Moser, Katharina Huchler, Stefan Schindler



Innovative management of grasslands by insect-friendly grazing for plants, insects and birds: the LIFEforBUGSandBIRDS project

Máté Tóth, Csaba P. Nagy, Gábor Mészáros, Petra Paládi, Szabolcs Lengyel



Development of peat rehabilitation model for Sarawak Region

Fazrin Munirah Atan, Arnina Hussin, Ahmad shahdan Kasim



Roadless areas as an effective strategy for protected areas expansion: Evidence from China

Shuting Chen



Degraded Yet Diverse: habitat characteristics, diversity and site area affect species richness of beetles and butterflies

Jonáš Gaigr, Karel Chobot



Preserving Hyblaean heritage: navigating conservation challenges in a dynamic landscape

Riccardo Guarino, Giuseppe Bazan, Giuseppe Garfì, Alessandro Silvestre Gristina, Vincenzo Ilardi, Salvatore Pasta, Bruno Paura, Corrado Marcenò



The 2022 wildfire in Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland (Czech Republic/Germany): consequences for nature conservation

Handrij Härtel, Jan Pergl, Jiří Sádlo, Josef Kutlvašr, Klára Kušková, Dana Vébrová, Irena Perglová, Michaela Vítková



Integrated Conservation and Restoration Planning within a Central-European Cross-border Region

Martin Jung, Julia Beier, Jutta Beher, Katharina Huchler, Susanne Hanger-Kopp



Insectivorous bat diversity and activity in West African oil palm-dominated landscapes

Lourdes Mariam Maigua Medrano, Ricardo Rocha, Nathalie Yoh, Ana F. Palmeirim Palmeirim, Michael D. Pashkevich



Establishing a Marine Protected Area network using a Marine Spatial Planning approach in São Tomé and Príncipe

Ana Nuno



Conservation of calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus (habitat 7210*) in northern Italy

Glauco Patera



Know to conserve hoverfly communities: the case study of Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park

Daniele Sommaggio, Enrico Vettorazzo, Lara Maistrello, Giovanni Burgio



Development of an integrated watershed fragility index to assess the cumulative effect of multiple stressors on freshwater fish and their habitat.

Karen Lira, Michael van Zyll de Jong, Myron KIng, Ian Cowx



Anything changing? Assessing the status of the saproxylic beetle community in Cabañeros National Park (Spain) 12 years later

Alice Lenzi, Javier Quinto, Sandra Martínez‑Pérez, Silvia Gisondi, Alessandro Campanaro, Estefanía Micó, Sofia Bajocco



Effects of structural connectivity on taxonomic and functional biodiversity: a multi-taxa case study on Austrian beech forests

Ana Isabel Martínez Richart



Assessing the role of drivers behind the decline of biodiversity to inform management

Magda Pla, Marc Anton, Dani Villero, Joan Pino, Virgilio Hermoso, Lluís Brotons



The importance of forest components as landscape structure in maintaining high biodiversity in oil palm plantations

Zalifah Ramli, Ahmad Shahdan Kasim, Farah Shafawati Mohd-Taib



Factors influencing the formation of long-lasting kelo trees in the Finnish boreal forest

Pemelyn Santos, Mariina Günther, Jari Kouki, Tuomas Aakala



Restoration potential and vertical distribution of soil seed bank in wet meadows

Ágnes Tóth, Balázs Deák, András Kelemen, Réka Kiss, Katalin Lukács, Zoltán Bátori, Orsolya Valkó



Filling knowledge gaps in insect conservation by leveraging genetic data from public archives

Serena Baini, Alessio De Biase



Standardization protocols for microsatellites analysis in wildlife conservation and forensic genetics

Lucia Dondi, Giuseppe Tosini, Federica Costantini, Vittorio Lucchini



Metabarcoding relates Dead wood beetle diversity and land-use changes in the Peneda-Gêres National Park

Theresa Jörger-Hickfang



New genomic approaches for ex-situ conservation and management of the Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica)

Letizia Pistacchia, Francesco Ravasini, Rikke Kruse Neilsen, Cino Pertoldi, Yitzhak Yadid, Peter A J Leegwater, Baukje Beers, Linda Brunis-van Sonsbeek, Mogge Hajiesmaeil, Flavia Risi, Fulvio Cruciani, Eugenia D'Atanasio, Beniamino Trombetta



Environmental DNA for direct, non-invasive assessment (eDNA) of fish species in the marine sanctuary of Dalipuga, Iligan City, Philippines

Sharon Rose Tabugo, John Arlu Bautista



Species distribution comparison and interactions of Clethrionomys glareolus and Chionomys nivalis in a changing climate

Jonas Dotterweich, Nicolò Bellin, Dino Scaravelli



Potential future climate change effects on global marine mammal diversity

Elizabeth R. Gillie, Sally E. Street, Stephen G. Willis



Mediterranean oak forests response to extreme drought in the face of climate change.

Antonio Velasco-Rodríguez, Rafael Villar, Carlos Vila-Viçosa, Joao Gonçalves, Salvador Arenas-Castro



Climate change adaptation strategies across the Natura 2000 network of protected areas

Giorgio Zavattoni, Elie Gaget, Jon Brommer



First evidence on the ecological impact of raccoons (Procyon lotor) in Hungary

Zsolt Biró, Zsolt Horváth, László Galambos, László Szabó, Mihály Márton, Balázs Bócsi, Krisztián Katona



Emerging problem of the nutria (Myocastor coypus) in Central Europe: reproductive potential in the wild

Krisztián Katona, Zsolt Biró, Balázs Bócsi



Threatened at home, alien abroad

Lisa Tedeschi, Bernd Lenzner, Anna Schertler, Dino Biancolini, Carlo Rondinini, Franz Essl



Integrating vegetation mapping and grassland specialist habitat preferences: a proposal for grassland restoration monitoring method

Maja Arok, Bojana Ivošević, Milan Vukotić, Tijana Nikolić Lugonja



The Scaling Challenge - an approach to help scale conservation impact

Nico Boenisch, Daniela Aschenbrenner



Monitoring and managing bat communities in forest ecosystems: an overview of the LIFE SPAN project

Giorgia Castiello, Fabrizio Ferretti, Paolo Colangelo, Bruno De Cinti



Satellite imagery machine learning-based analysis reveals a decadal expansion of seagrass meadows in protected lagoons.

Paolo Cingano, Marco Vuerich, Francesco Petruzzellis, Lorenzo Orzan, Giacomo Trotta, Valentino Casolo, Edoardo Asquini, Francesco Boscutti



Is plastic really fantastic? The comparison of artificial bee nests made of plastic and natural materials.

Aleksandra Cwajna, Agnieszka Gudowska, Dawid Moroń



The role of species Red List assessment to set the conservation priorities at national level

Jēkabs Dzenis, Gunta Čekstere



A population model of European tree frog (hyla arborea) for management planning

Sabrina Sidney Friedrich, Stefano Canessa



Through gaps and biases: limits and usefulness of synergistic standardised biodiversity datasets

Arianna Giannini, Marco Oliverio



Assessing the importance of landscape permeability variables in species distribution models

Nivedita Varma Harisena, Maarten J van Strien, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey



Monitoring the effects of anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity: a multitaxonomic approach

Francesca Maura Cassola, Jacopo Iaria, Matilde Martini, Francesco Santi, Mara De Silvestri, Giovanni Zanfei, Davide Lattarulo, Jennifer Rossin, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti



Using present data to track temporal changes in the functioning of coastal dune ecosystems

Greta La Bella, Alicia Acosta, Tommaso Jucker, Manuele Bazzichetto, Marta Gaia Sperandii, Marta Carboni



What is the Tole of Geodiversity in Protecting Current and Future Biodiversity?

Aino-Maija Sinikka Määttänen



A step-by-step approach to select climatic variable for ecological modeling

Giordano Mancini, Moreno Di Marco, Luigi Maiorano, Luca Santini



A Communication Tool on the Reintroduced Mexican Wolves (Canis lupus baileyi).

Terrance Vincent O'Halloran



Vegetation dynamics in the Gran Paradiso National Park through a remote sensing-based approach

Chiara Richiardi, Maria Adamo, Consolata Siniscalco



Spatiotemporal modelling of avian influenza in the UK identifies common targets for public health and conservation

Andrea Tonelli, Marcus Blagrove, Maya Wardeh, Moreno Di Marco



Assessing invasion risks using EICAT-based expert elicitation: application to a conservation translocation

Maude Vernet, Amanda E. Trask, Caitlin E. Andrews, John G. Ewen, Axel Moehrenschlager, Stefano Canessa



Ecologically-Informed Precision Conservation: A framework for increasing biodiversity in intensively managed agricultural landscapes

Michal Knapp, Ezequiel González



How commercial video games could engage players with biodiversity conservation: a systematic map

Katie Blake, Ugo Arbieu, Sofia Castelló y Tickell, Takahiro Kubo, Sandra Lai, Kota Mameno, Silvio Marchini, Claire Petros, Carla Rodríguez-Sánchez, Vera Sequeira, Cedric Tan, Kaiwen Zhou, Diogo Veríssimo



Embracing urban and territorial abandonment: the policy of inaction for an alternative people and nature relationship

Cheren Cappello, Antonello Monsù Scolaro, Maria Rosa Trovato



"Medium-size mammals as selected prey for wolf pups living in a human-modified landscape in central Italy"

Alessia Di Rosso, Chiara Benedetta Boni, Samuele Baldanti, Lucia Casini, Francesca Coppola, Gaia Di Francesca Antonio, Antonio Felicioli



Recognizing the importance of near-home contact with nature for mental well-being based on the COVID-19 lockdown experience

Magdalena Lenda



Outdoor recreational activities can shape ungulate temporal behaviour in an alpine protected area

Valerio Orazi, Anna Flumiani, Emanuela Rabajoli, Bruno Bassano, Francesco Ferretti



Water wars: Disentangling human-elephant conflicts over dwindling water in Zimbabwe

Jessica Kate Tacey



Nature-based solutions as an opportunity to align climate and biodiversity policy agendas in Hong Kong

Ashley H.Y. Bang, EJ Milner-Gulland



Species of the Habitats Directive - how dependent they are on the protection of forest habitats of European Union importance

Martins Kalnins, Ilze Kukare, Diana Marga



Mind the gap: different forms of Integrity undermine the conservation of terrestrial ecosystems under the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Valeria Mendez, Peter Larsen, Lara Marcolin, Moreno Di Marco



Cumulative effects of Poland’s state border infrastructure and associated human activities in Białowieża Forest

Katarzyna Nowak, Łukasz Kuberski, Jakub Bubnicki, Nuria Selva



Acting against the biodiversity crisis - a classification framework for university strategy papers

Rebecca Rongstock, Matthias C. Rillig



The Integrated Management Plan for the Conservation of Emys orbicularis

Andrea Agapito Ludovici, Claudio Ciofi, Sara Fratini, Fabrizio Oneto, Dario Ottonello, Matteo Dal Zotto, Guido Gnone, Bruna Valettini, Valentina Parco, Iztok Škornik, M.Antonio Todaro, Ana Tratnik, Gianluca Catullo, Marco Alberto Zuffi, Saro Aiello, Davide Nespoli, Alessio Iannucci, Riccardo Jesu



Sexual dimorphism in mitochondrial aerobic respiration during breeding fasts in king penguins

Nina Cossin-Sevrin, Céline Bocquet, Camille Lemonnier, Thomas Faulmann, Natacha Garcin, Mathilde Lejeune, Pierre Bize, Jean-Patrice Robin, Katja Anttila, Suvi Ruuskanen, Vincent A Viblanc



Individual variation in the development of Hungarian meadow viper behaviour

Bálint Halpern, Anna Egerer, Gergely Horváth, Gábor Herczeg



Spatial ecology and habitat selection of translocated European bison in the Romanian Carpathians.

Lucy C.V. Holland, Ruben Iosif, Adrian Aldea, Călin Șerban, Barbara Promberger-Fürpass, Viorel D. Popescu



The role of sexual selection and population structure moderating the effect of high temperatures on the reproductive success of a model insect species

Renáta Kopena, Miguel Lozano, David Canal, László Zsolt Garamszegi, Francisco Garcia-Gonzalez



Contribution to European bison (Bison bonasus) reintroduction: a behavioural study in a zoo setting

Giovanna Marliani, Pier Accorsi, Camillo Sandri, Caterina Spiezio



Parent-offspring interactions and development of Eurasian Hoopoes (Upupa Epops) during the post-fledging period

Lisa Andrea Moser, Rico Felder, Raphaël Arlettaz, Ian James Ausprey



From the sky to the ground: exploring the stray dog issue in Puerto Deseado, Argentina

Elisa Padulosi, Dino Scaravelli, Duccio Rocchini, María Eugenia de San Pedro, Sabrina Pastrana, Fabian Diaz, Diego Procopio



Problematic protection of the Pinus mugo complex

Joanna Sikora, Konrad Celiński



Do brown bears visit dens during periods other than hibernation?

Venislava Spasova, Vladimir Todorov, Daniela Simeonovska-Nikolova



A refuge for Lepus europaeus meridiei Hilzheimer, 1906.

Valter Trocchi, Nicola Baccetti, Cristian Geminiani, Francesca Giannini, Egidio Mallia, Chiara Mengoni, Nadia Mucci, Giampiero Sammuri, Camilla Gotti



Urban habits of the bent-winged bat (Miniopterus schreibersii) in Italy

Francesca Festa, Dino Scaravelli, Francesca Cosentino, Paola De Benedictis, Luigi Maiorano, Stefania Leopardi



Protecting endangered Siberian flying squirrel in urban environment in Espoo, Finland - methods, experience and lessons learned

Laura Lundgren, Aino Kostiainen



On the right tracks - how tramway transport affects biodiversity

Dawid Moroń, Michał Beim, Agnieszka Gudowska, Aleksandra Cwajna, Emilia Marjańska, Piotr Tryjanowski



Woody plant diversity on urban woodlands of an inner town of southern Italy (Campobasso)

Marco Varricchione, Maria Carla de Francesco, Maria Laura Carranza, Chiara D'Angeli, Michele Finizio, Michele Innangi, Lucia Antonietta Santoianni, Angela Stanisci



Collecting and mapping livestock data in Central Apennines: a standardised protocol

Federica Villa, Chiara Dragonetti, Stefan Rodrigo von Kempis, Giacomo Masiello, Mario Cipollone, Piero Visconti, Moreno Di Marco



The impact of livestock and human disturbance on mammal species occupancy in the central Apennines

Giacomo Masiello, Chiara Dragonetti, Niccolò Ceci, Mario Cipollone, Piero Visconti, Federica Villa, Moreno Di Marco



Influence of temperature, pH and salinity on the biometry and skeletal properties of the Adriatic clam Chamelea gallina

Arianna Mancuso, Francesca Giovanna Bardone, Matilde Gironi, Chiara Marchini, Giuseppe Falini, Stefano Goffredo



Reliability of data collected by volunteers: a nine-year citizen science study in the Red Sea

Mariana Machado Toffolo, Marta Meschini, Chiara Marchini, Erik Caroselli, Fiorella Prada, Arianna Mancuso, Silvia Franzellitti, Chloe Alexandra Lee, Laura Locci, Marco Davoli, Michele Trittoni, Enrico Nanetti, Mara Tittarelli, Riccardo Bentivogli, Simone Branchini, Patrizia Neri, Stefano Goffredo

Coffee break
Location: Catering Points - Belmeloro Complex
 
11:00am
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12:30pm
Parallel session 18A: Contributed session: Area-based conservation I
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Arash Ghoddousi
 

Spatial prioritization using orchids as target species

Michele Lussu, Michele Di Musciano, Leonardo Ancillotto, Luciano Bosso, Rocco Labadessa, Riccardo Testolin, Francesco Santi, Matteo Conti, Michela Marignani, Stefano Martellos, Antonio Pica, Paolo Laghi, Piero Medagli, Daniela Scaccabarozzi, Sara Magrini, Salvatore Cozzolino, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Alessandro Chiarucci



Biodiversity conservation priority-setting: Tanzania’s Key Biodiversity Area system and its potential for strengthening vertebrate conservation

Sarah Jane Markes, Tim Davenport, Alexander Georgiev, Eleanor Warren-Thomas



Spatial coincidence between mining rights and areas of high biodiversity value in Spain

Katty Lucia Duchicela Moreira, Jordi Cortina Segarra, Aurora Torres Moreno



The six Austrian national parks: biodiversity coverage and gaps

Klaus Peter Zulka, Christian Gilli, David Paternoster, Gebhard Banko, Luise Schratt-Ehrendorfer, Harald Niklfeld



Assessing the effectiveness of biodiversity offsetting for pollinator conservation: A Dutch case study

Klara Kyung-Jah Leander Oh, Jeroen Scheper, David Kleijn



Blocks and Stripes: Does shape matter? Landscape for the conservation of Insects.

Vera Kaunath, Jana A. Eccard

Parallel session 18B: Contributed session: Methods I
Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Takuya Iwamura
 

A framework to quantify the vulnerability of insular biota to global change

Céline Bellard, Ana Benitez, Nathalie Butt, Pol Capdevilla, José Maria Fernandez Palacios, Severin Irl, Daniel Kissling, Camille Leclerc, Jonathan Lenoir, Clara Marino, Francois Rigal, Marine Robuchon, Gengping Zhu



Determining species vulnerability in a mountainous region

Neftalí Sillero, João Campos, Nuno Garcia, Daniel Silva, João Alírio, A. Márcia Barbosa, Salvador Arenas Castro, Isabel Pôças, Lia Duarte, Ana Cláudia Teodoro



Influence of climate databases on ecological niche models of forest species at different spatial scales

Salvador Arenas-Castro, Antonio Velasco-Rodríguez, Rafael Villar, Neftalí Sillero



Using the youngest fossil record to reconstruct life history changes in the exploited bivalve Arca noae in the northern Adriatic Sea

Rafał Nawrot, Melita Peharda, Saskia Macharia, Hana Uvanović, Adam Tomašových, Martin Zuschin



Inclusion of fossil data into ecological niche models to assess the effect of changing climate on biodiversity

Arianna Morena Belfiore, Alessandro Mondanaro, Silvia Castiglione, Marina Melchionna, Giorgia Girardi, Mirko Di Febbraro



Substantial noise in expert judgements for conservation translocations: a case study of disease risk analysis in an extinct in the wild species

John Ewen, Stefano Canessa, Caio Kenup, Axel Moehrenschlager, Claudia Carraro

Parallel session 18C: Contributed session: Agroecology I
Location: Room C - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: KARINE PRINCE GAYNO
 

Restoring plant diversity in lowland grasslands through different seed addition methods

Laura Forgione, Raphaël Arlettaz, Jean-Yves Humbert



Interactive effects of landscape diversity and flower fields on the natural control of insect pests

Kyra Zembold, Marco Ferrante, Annika Haß, Qian Zhang, Noah Janotta, Dana Liebke, Martin Wollenweber, Kai Buchtal, Stefan Schüler, Isabelle Arimond, Catrin Westphal



Intercropping maize with biodiversity-enhancing partners – compromising between yield, biodiversity and ecosystem service provision

Vera Wersebeckmann, Frank Höppner, Doreen Gabriel



Reproductive success of arable weeds does not benefit from flower strips

Nathalie Rodenwald, Laura M.E. Sutcliffe, Péter Batáry, Christoph Leuschner



Disentangling the effects of management, landscape composition and configuration on biological communities in intensive apple orchards

Corrado Alessandrini, Emanuela Granata, Ekaterina Mogilnaia, Karan Sethi, Valeria Vitangeli, Giovanni Zanfei, Chiara Fedrigotti, Francesca Roseo, Luigi Marchesi, Dino Scaravelli, Diego Rubolini, Paolo Pedrini, Mattia Brambilla

Parallel session 18D: Contributed session: Global change I
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Luca Santini
 

The response of insects to anthropogenic threats: a global assessment of experts

Andrew James Bladon, Joseph Millard, Rob Cooke, Charlie Outhwaite, James Rodger, Nick Isaac, Andy Purvis, Lynn Vanessa Dicks



Human Disturbance and its Effects on Large Mammal Communities in a Rewilding area in the Southwestern Carpathians

Gabriele Retez, Mahmood Soofi, Arash Ghoddousi, Julian Oeser, Adrian Grancea, Tobias Kuemmerle



Blast from the Past: A Retrospective analysis of 250 years of change in forest, defaunation, and recolonization in a rewilding landscape in Europe

Sandeep Sharma, Nils Gmyrek, Marten Winter, Henrique Miguel Pereira, Néstor Fernández



Tracing the historical footprint of a warming climate on sea turtle populations

Fitra Arya Dwi Nugraha, James Gilbert, Artur Lopes, Kirsten Fairweather, Albert Taxonera, Rebekka Allgayer, Justin Travis, Christophe Eizaguirre



Historical records reveal the prolonged decline of an infaunal echinoid in the northern Adriatic Sea

Bettina Bachmann, Rafał Nawrot, Martin Zuschin



Identifying demographic routes for population recovery in migratory populations.

Catriona Morrison

Parallel session 18E: Contributed session: Urban ecology I
Location: Room E - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Erik Öckinger
Chair: Gianluca Piovesan
 

Kangaroo tales: how communities can help conserve common species in urban environments

Elizabeth Ann Brunton



How do restored riparian areas differ to remnant habitats in urban and peri-urban landscapes?

Sacha Jellinek, Yung E. Chee, Joe Greet, Eliza Foley-Congdon



From experience to action: nature-relatedness mediates between nature exposure and pro-conservation behaviour intentions in adolescents and adults

Tanja Maria Straka, Carolin Glahe, Ulrike Dietrich, Miriam Bui, Ingo Kowarik



Starting-year effects of annual and perennial urban flower sowings on pollinators and floral resources

Gabriella Süle, Virág Németh, András Báldi, Viktor Szigeti



Time travel in landscape ecology: Archive aerial images and texture-based indices reveal past urban landscapes and their effects on plants and birds

Suzie Derminon, François Chiron, Audrey Muratet, Pierre-Alexis Herrault



Urbanization and landscape simplification reduce village biodiversity, while their remoteness to cities increases social inequity

Peter Batary, Robert Galle, Balázs Deak, Nikolett Szpisjak, David Koranyi, Tamas Lakatos, Attila Torma, Melinda Kabai, Csaba Koszta, Dorota Kotowska, Riho Marja, Brigitta Palotas, Agota R. Szabo, Borbala Szabo, Andras Baldi, Zoltan Laszlo, Erzsebet Hornung, Jeno J. Purger, Gabor Seress, Bela Tothmeresz, Istvan Urak, Dragica Purger, Szabolcs Mizser, Krisztina Sandor, Laszlo Somay, Gabriella Sule, Orsolya Valko, Andrea Zsigmond, Lorenzo Marini, Christina Fischer, Katalin Szitar, Edina Torok

Parallel session 18F: Contributed session: Genetics & Evolution I
Location: Room F - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Marco Cantonati
 

Multi-taxa assessment of endangered and invasive alien species by environmental DNA revealed new opportunities to plan new protected areas

Simone Giovacchini, Enrico Mirone, Antonia Bruno, Fausto Ramazzotti, Luca Caprotti, Hannah Krupa, Pamela Monaco, Pushpinder Singh Jamwal, Mirko Di Febbraro, Andrea Galimberti, Anna Loy



Is eDNA metabarcoding an effective new approach for the monitoring of mine site restoration? Tips and tricks from 6+ years of research

Paul Gerard Nevill, Michael Bunce, Mieke van der Heyde



Using environmental DNA to search for the rare, endemic and endangered Apennine yellow bellied toad (Bombina pachypus) and its main threatening factor

Enrico Mirone, Simone Giovacchini, Marco Alberto Bologna, Antonia Bruno, Luca Caprotti, Mirko Di Febbraro, Pushpinder Jamwal, Hannah Krupa, Pamela Monaco, Fausto Ramazzotti, Leonardo Vignoli, Andrea Galimberti, Anna Loy



Surveying lichens with airborne eDNA

Aino Hämäläinen, Per-Anders Esseen, Fernando Fernandez Mendoza, Göran Thor, Per Stenberg



Biodiversity gradients trough a river basin: markers, methods and tributaries in an eDNA case of study.

Gabriele Cananzi, Irene Tatini, Tianshi Li, Giulio Petroni



Evaluating different approaches to integrate genome-wide genetic diversity in spatial conservation prioritization

Marco Andrello, Stéphanie Manel

Parallel session 18G: Contributed session: Biodiversity I
Location: Room G - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Dino Biancolini
 

Podarcis raffonei SOS! LIFE EOLIZARD to the rescue! Kick off an international conservation project to save the Aeolian wall lizard.

Benedetta Gambioli, Emanuele Berrilli, Marco Reale, Eleonora Ledda, Giulia Luzi, Stefano Picchi, Giulia Simbula, Miguel A. Carretero, Hugo Cayuela, Daniele Macale, Francesco G. Ficetola, Pierluigi Bombi, Daniele Salvi, Leonardo Vignoli



The endangered Calabrian Alpine newt: integrating ecological modelling and connectivity planning for effective conservation actions

Viviana Cittadino, Mattia Iannella, Antonio Romano, Rocco Tiberti, Davide Serva, Maurizio Biondi, Ilaria Bernabò



Ecology and conservation of a vulnerable migratory bird, European Hoopoe, during a sensitive stage of its annual life cycle

Ian Ausprey, Rico Felder, Lisa Moser, Raphaël Arlettaz



Countrywide, high-resolution maps to support the conservation of endangered bird species

Nica Huber, Claire Lischer, Matthias Vögeli, Dominique Weber, Stephanie Michler, Urs Kormann



Saving the sihek: sex-specific impacts of reproductive effort and body condition on mortality risk in an Extinct in the Wild bird

Amanda Elizabeth Trask, Erica Royer, Scott Newland, John Ewen, Rachel McCrea

Parallel session 18H: Contributed session: Biodiversity VII
Location: Room H - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Stefano Goffredo
 

The edible sea urchin in Western Sardinia (Italy): do effective conservation measures matter?

Daniele Grech, Gianni Brundu, Veronica Santinelli, Cinzia Podda, Erika Maria Diletta Porporato, Maura Baroli, Ivan Guala



Exploring small-scale fishing in southern Italy's marine protected areas: unveiling essential habitats for ecosystem conservation

Luca Appolloni, Domenico Ciorciaro, Roberto Sandulli, Giovanni Russo



Biogeographical patterns of endemic flies in the islands of Corse and Sardinia

Dario Nania, Pierfilippo Cerretti



Comparing climate-induced changes of marine megafauna species and functional diversity across scenarios to identify potential climate refugia

Elena Gissi, Jamie McDevitt-Irwin, Kristin Kaschner, Kathleen Kesner-Reyes, Elliott Hazen, Rosalia Santoleri, Fiorenza Micheli



Maërl beds in the Arctic: Distribution analysis in Icelandic waters

Urður Ýrr Brynjólfsdóttir, Haseeb Randhawa, Julian Burgos



Long-term trends in the size structure of mollusc indicator species of the northern Adriatic Sea

Lukas Schweigl, Rafał Nawrot, Adam Tomašových, Martin Zuschin

Symposium 164: Conservation insights from the ALPMEMA project: Alpine mountain hay meadows management
Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: John Lind
Chair: Paul van den Brink
 

Synergies and tradeoffs for biodiversity and tourism - in the Alpine meadows, and beyond?

John Lind, Paul Van den Brink, Katharina Wacker, Volker Mauerhofer



When is an 'A' truly an 'A'?

Paul van den Brink, John Lind, Katharina Wacker, Volker Mauerhofer



How to preserve grassland in the context of underuse? An international solution scanning

Katharina Wacker, John Lind, Paul van den Brink, Claudia Bieling



Towards mapping multifunctional landscapes in high-nature value mountain areas

Alexander Prishchepov, Marcel Mohr, Claudia Bielig, Alen Gasparian Amirkhanian, Gohar Shahinyan, Konrad Turlej, Michael Munk, Christian Toettrup, Paul Connetable



The impacts of global changes on the distribution of mountain biodiversity

Chiara Dragonetti, Wilfried Thuiller, Maya Guéguen, Julien Renaud, Piero Visconti, Moreno Di Marco



Effects of passive restoration of degraded mountain grasslands on plants and butterflies

Jean-Yves Humbert, Isabelle Arnnold, Gaëtan Marchand, Raphaël Arlettaz

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Lunch Event 18 2: The ICCB Steering Committee for ICCB 2025 (Micha Jackson)
Location: Room C - Belmeloro Complex
Lunch Event 18 1: Lunch discussion on DEIJ in conservation fieldwork (Emma Marjakangas)
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Lunch Event 18 3: Progressing from taxonomic to conceptual and applied research in urban ecology (Stephen Venn)
Location: Room E - Belmeloro Complex
Lunch Event 18 4: SSWG members meeting (Stephanie Brittain)
Location: Room F - Belmeloro Complex
Lunch Event 18 5: Policy Committe Meeting (Laura Bosco)
Location: Room G - Belmeloro Complex
Lunch Event 18 6: the ICCS get-together (Lucy Radford)
Location: Room H - Belmeloro Complex
Lunch Break 18/06: Lunch Break
Location: Catering Points - Belmeloro Complex
   
2:00pm
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3:30pm
Symposium 101-1: Designing a future Trans-European Nature Network (TEN-N) for a nature-positive Europe
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Martin Jung
 

Building a resilient and coherent Trans-European Nature Network

Piero Visconti, Martin Jung, Nestor Fernandez, Henrique Pereira, Jutta Beher, Matea Osti, Miguel Fernandez



A critical evaluation of current practices in connectivity projects across Europe

Francisco Moreira, Filipe Dias, Jeremy Dertien, Luis Borda-de-Água, Miguel Porto, Sílvia Carvalho, Ana Ceia-Hasse, Carina Seliger, Rafaela Schinegger, Luca Santini, Luigi Maiorano, Francesca Cosentino, Andrea Sacchi, Néstor Férnandez



Beyond protected area boundaries: identifying OECMs in Europe and its implications for biodiversity conservation and management

George Kefalas, Stefanos Boutsios, Roxanne Suzette Lorilla, Camino Liquete, Ioannis Vogiatzakis, Alexandra Demertzi, Konstantina Apostolopoulou, Dimitrios Bormboudakis, Evangelia G Drakou



Private Land Conservation in Finland - challenges and potentials

Khorloo Batpurev, Heini Kujala, Mar Cabeza, Steve Sinclair



Opportunity cost estimates for spatial conservation prioritisation across Europe

Douglas Spencer, Alexandra Marques, Clara Veerkamp, Martijn van der Marel, Peter Verburg, Anandi Sarita Namasivayam, Moreno Di Marco, Martin Jung, Heini Kujala, Louise O'Connor, Piero Visconti, Aafke Schipper



Stress-testing protected areas against global change

Virgilio Hermoso

Symposium 110: Supporting national and global Red List assessments via the sRedList platform
Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Luca Santini
Chair: Moreno Di Marco
 

Introducing the sRedList platform for rapid and effective global biodiversity monitoring

Luca Santini, Victor Cazalis, Moreno Di Marco



Time-series of terrestrial, freshwater, and intertidal habitats to support species status assessments and monitoring

Ruben Remelgado, Talita Amado, Carsten Meyer



Integrating hunting pressure models into IUCN assessments for improved Area of Habitat maps and population size estimates of tropical vertebrates

Iago Ferreiro Arias, Luca Santini, Ana Benítez López



A standardized approach to estimate generation length for amphibians and squamates

Giordano Mancini, Luca Santini, Victor Cazalis, Sofia Silvestri, Shai Meiri, Uri Roll, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, Francesco Gentile Ficetola, Moreno Di Marco



Big machines for little bugs: automation of species extinction risk assessments in hyperdiverse taxa

Vasco Veiga Branco, Luís Correia, Pedro Cardoso



Extinction risk predictions for the world’s flowering plants to support their conservation

Steven Bachman, Matilda Brown, Tarciso Leão, Eimear Nic Lughadha, Barnaby Walker

Symposium 132: The role of non-crop habitats to support arthropod diversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes
Location: Room C - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Marco Ferrante
Chair: Michal Knapp
 

Promoting farmland biodiversity and ecosystem services at the landscape scale

Annika Hass, Isabelle Arimond, Valeria Hartmann, Marco Ferrante, Noah Janotta, Dana Liebke, Johanna Schmidt, Stefan Schüler, Kyra Zembold, Qian Zhang, Martin Wollenweber, Kai Buchtal, Jule Huber, Menko Koch, Tobias Plieninger, Sebastian Lakner, Catrin Westphal



Grasslands and crop fields are complementary for biodiversity irrespective of landscape grassland cover

Fabian A. Boetzl, Giovanni Tamburini, Erik Öckinger, Ola Lundin



Climate and semi-natural cover drive fungicide and insecticide use in vineyards

Costanza Geppert, Lorenzo Marini



Positive effects of wildflower strips on invertebrate organisms and ecosystem services above and below ground

Michal Knapp, Martin Štrobl, Alfredo Venturo, Ezequiel González



Wildflower strips as key overwintering shelters for ground-dwelling arthropods at different life stages

Alfredo Venturo, Lucija Andjel, Martin Štrobl, Michal Knapp

Symposium 170: Conservation, Governance & Law: Net-Gain perspectives from the UN Post2020 Biodiversity Framework and the EU Biodiversity Strategy for EU conservation rules and policies
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Volker Mauerhofer
Chair: Aysegul Sirakaya
 

Net gain approaches of The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and EU Biodiversity Strategy: status and perspective for EU-laws

Volker Mauerhofer



The Role of Science in the Global Biodiversity Framework

Aysegul Sirakaya



Halting the Loss of Biodiversity in the European Union: The Effect of EU legislation

Valerie Fogleman



Managing Extinction: Examining how the Global Biodiversity Framework’s 'Considerations' can shape and inform conservation strategies.

Alison Hutchinson



The Nature Positive Journey for Business: A research agenda to enable private sector contributions to the global biodiversity framework.

Thomas Bryce White, Talitha Bromwich, Ashley Bang, Leon Bennun, Joseph Bull, Michael Clark, Graham Prescott, Malcolm Starkey, Sophus zu Ermgassen, E.J. Milner-Gulland, Hollie Booth

Symposium 157-1: Bringing biodiversity to cities: conservation challenges in the urbanized world
Location: Room E - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Olivia Sanllorente
Chair: Lucía Izquierdo
Chair: Stephen Venn
 

The New Normal: Ethnobiology of cities and urban ecological knowledge

Ani Bajrami, Ajola Mesiti, Ermelinda Mahmutaj, Petrit Hoda



Insects in cities: A within-cityscape ecological systems approach to reveal the mechanistic processes that shape urban flying insect communities

Atilla Çelikgil, Alexandra Schmidt, Panagiotis Theodorou



What factors drive the presence of ant communities in mediterranean unsealed schoolyards ?

Louise Eydoux, Alan Vergnes, Pierre Jay-Robert, Bernard Kaufmann



The hidden ecology of urban garbage: food waste may indirectly simplify urban bird communities

Daniel Lipshutz Forrest, Harold N. Eyster, Matthew G. E. Mitchell, Kai M. A. Chan



Urban development type drives differences in avian-mediated regulating ecosystem services

Lucía Izquierdo, Mario Díaz, Yanina Benedetti, Jukka Jokimäki, Marja-Liisa Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki, Federico Morelli, Tomás Pérez-Contreras, Enrique Rubio, Philipp Sprau, Jukka Suhonen, Piotr Tryjanowski, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo



How much are Eastern European city parks buffered against urbanization?

Tamás Lakatos, Benedek Juhász, István Kovács, Zoltán László, Edgár Papp, Jenő J. Purger, Gábor Seress, Béla Tóthmérész, István Urák, Péter Batáry

Symposium 161: Managing and conserving intraspecific genetic diversity under global changes: challenges and applications
Location: Room F - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Luigi Maiorano
Chair: Andrea Chioccchio
 

Challenges and opportunities of inferring spatial genetic patterns of amphibians and reptiles for conservation planning across six global regions.

Silvia Benoliel Carvalho, Maria João Paúl, André Vicente Liz, Matthew Moreira, Ana Carnaval, Bryan Carstens, Salvador Carranza, Angelica Crottini, Duarte Gonçalves, Pedro Tarroso



Conserving genomic diversity in tropical trees from French Guiana

Myriam Heuertz, Julien Bonnier, Sylvain Schmitt, Olivier Lepais, Emilie Chancerel, Erwan Guichoux, Saint-Omer Cazal, Valérie Troispoux, Stéphane Traissac, Olivier Brunaux, Niklas Tysklind



Conserving genetic diversity of at-risk species across the data-availability spectrum

Brenna Forester, Ivan Paz Vinas



Using genomics to inform bat conservation under global change

Orly Razgour



Conserving evolutionary potential under global change: efficacy of the Italian protected areas for terrestrial vertebrates

Nina Luisa Santostasi, Andrea Chiocchio, Luigi Maiorano, Roberta Bisconti, Alice Pezzarossa, Daniele Canestrelli

Symposium 127-1: Vanishing habitats: opportunities and challenges for the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in glacial and proglacial zones.
Location: Room G - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Alejandra Morán Ordóñez
Chair: Gentile Francesco Ficetola
 

Diversity of bacterial communities of cryoconite holes in different geographical areas of the world

Roberto Ambrosini, Arianna Crosta, Francesca Pittino, Isabella Gandolfi, Valeria Tatabgalo, Andrea Franzetti, Roberto Sergio Azzoni, Gentile Francesco Ficetola



Smaller, wind-dispersed, less tropical? winning plant species and traits in the Andes after glacial retreat

Fabien Anthelme, Jorge Luis Ceballos, Lucie Dubois Aubecq, Rosa Isela Meneses, Gwendolyn Peyre, Antoine Rabatel, Alvaro Soruco, Anaïs Zimmer



Proglacial plant functional diversity along a snow cover gradient from tropical to temperate alpine communities

Lucie Bivaud, Anaïs Zimmer, Guillaume Papuga, Tristan Charles-Dominique, Fabien Anthelme



Understanding successional dynamics of soil communities after glacier retreat, a multi-taxa and global approach.

Isabel Cantera, Alessia Guerrieri, Alexis Carteron, Simone Giachello, Silvio Marta, Francesco Ficetola



Greenland plant diversity patterns and pollination networks in a changing Arctic

Natasha de Vere, Brandon Samuel Whitley, Elisabeth M. Biersma, Nora Meriem Khelidj, Viktor Tommy Gårdman, Zhao Li, Tiago Silva, Natalie Iwanycki Ahlstrand, Eric Coissac, Jakob Abermann, Thomas Pape, Toke Thomas Høye, Helena Wirta, Laura Jones, Katrine Raundrup, Inger Greve Alsos, Gianalberto Losapio, Tomas Roslin



Protecting high-alpine alluvial zones released by melting glaciers as a consequence of global warming

Gilles Hauser, Raphaël Arlettaz, Alejandra Morán Ordóñez

Symposium 155: Combining scientific evidence, local knowledge and practitioner experience for decision-making and learning in conservation
Location: Room H - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Nicolas Boenisch
Chair: Bill Sutherland
 

Tackling the inefficiency paradox: delivering effective conservation through combining evidence sources

William Sutherland



Sharing practical conservation insights in a practitioner knowledge database

Vanessa Cutts, Nigel Taylor, William Sutherland, Howard Nelson



Enablers and Barriers to Embedding Indigenous and Local Knowledge and Voices in Conservation: Insights from BirdLife Partnership and the Global South

Poshendra Satyal



Assessing and compiling diverse evidence for conservation actions and strategies

William Hugh Morgan



The Conservation Learning Initiative – evidence-based learning on key conservation actions

Nicolas Boenisch



Translating learning outcomes into practice: improving conservation capacity building

Daniela Aschenbrenner

Symposium 116: Which plants and communities should be preserved or restored? The role of the study of the past in Conservation Biology
Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Anna Maria Mercuri
 

Linnaea borealis (Caprifoliaceae): an ice age relict species at the Neolithic site of Palù di Livenza, Pordenone

Jessica Zappa, Paola Torri, Giovanni Astuti, Lorenzo Lastrucci, Anna Maria Mercuri



Resilient biodiversity? The response of Fagus sylvatica to climatic constraints during the Last Glacial and the Holocene

Cristiano Vignola, Alessia Masi, Laura Sadori



Quantifying the potential niches of endangered plant species for improving reintroduction success

Merav Lebel Vine, Jonathan Belmaker, Yuval Sapir



Coupling abiotic and biotic proxies in fossil records and modern elevational gradients to assist conservation strategies in mountain ecosystems

Giulia Furlanetto, Alla Aleksanyan, Marco Avanzini, Paolo Bertuletti, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Alessandro Chiarucci, Roberto Comolli, George Fayvush, Laura Ferigato, Chiara Ferré, Valentina Fontana, Giulia Frigerio, Davide Margaritora, Jordan Palli, Renata Perego, Roberta Pini, Gianluca Piovesan, Cesare Ravazzi



Ecosystem restoration targeted to historical landscape benchmarks: Case studies from central and southern Italy

Jordan Palli, Monica Bini, Scott Mensing, Anna Maria Mercuri, Giovanni Zanchetta, Gianluca Piovesan



Palynology to understanding past and present plant community dynamics: the case study of STAPE (Pollino National Park)

Cristina Ricucci, Jordan Palli, Eleonora Clò, Assunta Florenzano, Gianluca Piovesan, Anna Maria Mercuri

Workshop 143: The fate of primary and old-growth forests in Europe: 2018 – 2024 – 2030?
Location: Room L - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Stefan Kreft
Chair: Nuria Selva
 

The plight of European boreal primary and old-growth forests, taking Sweden as an example

Martin Jentzen



Białowieża Forest - a pivotal moment for the protection of one of Europe's last primary forests

Augustyn Mikos



The last primary forests – a bridge between the past and the future

Gabriel Paun



Natura 2000 as a tool to protect primary and old-growth forests - conflicts and hurdles

Matthias Schickhhofer



EU Forest Strategy for 2030 and the way forward for Europe’s primary forests

Thomas Waitz

   
3:30pm
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4:00pm
Tea break 18/06: Tea break
Location: Catering Points - Belmeloro Complex
4:00pm
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5:30pm
Symposium 101-2: Designing a future Trans-European Nature Network (TEN-N) for a nature-positive Europe
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
 

Accounting for climate change within Trans-European Nature Network (TEN-N)

Marta Cimatti, Valerio Mezzanotte, Dirk Karger, Moreno Di Marco



Towards a Reporting Standard for Systematic Conservation Planning studies

Martin Jung



Pan-European connectivity for terrestrial and freshwater taxa: identifying connections for continental resilience

Jeremy S. Dertien, Francisco Moreira, Rafaela Schinegger, Filipe S. Dias, Carina Seliger, Néstor Fernández



Priorities for expanding and strengthening Europe's protected area network

Louise O'Connor, Martin Jung, Piero Visconti



Robust framework to assess landscape connectivity for systematic conservation planning application

Marie-Caroline Prima, Julien Renaud, Isabelle Witté, Léa Suarez, Paul Rouveyrol, Dinali Martina Fernando Malimage, Andrea Sacchi, Francesca Cosentino, Luca Santini, Luigi Maiorano, Wilfried Thuiller

Symposium 166: Emerging technologies in conservation biology
Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Chiara Bortoluzzi
 

Dronespot: Empowering citizen science with drone video processing software for wildlife monitoring

Stuart Robert Brian Negus, Guillaume Couche, Christophe Eizaguirre, Gail Schofield



Developing a UAV-based method for detecting and monitoring newly established populations of the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber)

Polina Kirilova Nikova, Maria Nikolaeva Kachamakova, Vladimir Rumenov Todorov, Blagovesta Dimitrova Dimitrova, Milen Mitkov Ignatov, Yordan Spasov Koshev



Mapping nature’s contributions to people from species distributions, a novel perspective for conservation?

Pierre-Louis Rey, Antoine Adde, Nathan Külling, Blaise Petitpierre, Pascal Vittoz, Anthony Lehmann, Antoine Guisan



New approaches to vertebrate detection: use of iDNA obtained from flies for vertebrate detection in Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park

Francesco Paone, Pierfilippo Cerretti, Amrita Srivathsan



Development of a portable and cost-effective laboratory system for in situ for species identification via DNA metabarcoding

Ettore Fedele, Silvia Fuselli, Marco Zaccaroni, Giorgio Bertorelle

Symposium 150: Assessing and managing the resilience of arthropod-driven ecosystem functions in agroecosystems
Location: Room C - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Mattias Jonsson
Chair: Emily Poppenborg Martin
 

Biodiversity and Stability in Plant-Pollination Systems and its Implications for Food Security

Daniel Montoya



Enhancing the resilience of smallholder food and nutrition security through management of pollination services in rural Nepal

Thomas Timberlake, Sujan Sapkota, Alyssa Cirtwill, Daya Bhusal, Kedar Devkota, Naomi Saville, Susanne Kortsch, Matthew Smith, Samuel Myers, Sushil Baral, Tomas Roslin, Jane Memmott



Disentangling and mitigating the effects of mowing on grassland arthropods

Johanna Lina Berger, Michael Staab, Nico Bluethgen



Increasing the resilience of biological pest control through agricultural management

Cassandra Ezra Vogel, Benjamin Feit, Mattias Jonsson



Resistance and recovery rates of pest control after agricultural disturbances in fields with different agrobiodiversity

Claudia Paul, Cassandra Vogel, Matteo Dainese, Phillippe Belliard, Oskar Rennstam Rubbmark, Michael Traugott, Mattias Jonsson, Emily Poppenborg Martin



How to maintain stable crop production while reducing pesticide use in agricultural landscapes? A conceptual framework for maximising the stability of

Lucile Muneret, Eirini Daouti, Nicolas Guilpart, Ute Fricke, Mattias Jonsson, Emily Martin, Ricardo Perez-Alvarez, Adrien Rusch, Mathieu Siol, Sandrine Petit

Symposium 160: Human-carnivore coexistence: challenges, opportunities, and potential paths forward
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Robert Alistair Montgomery
Chair: Enrico Di Minin
 

The importance of scale in managing human-wildlife conflict

Carlos Bautista, Eloy Revilla, Néstor Fernández, Javier Naves, Teresa Berezowska-Cnota, Julian Oeser, Tobias Kuemmerle, Nuria Selva



Spatial priorities for the conservation and coexistence of carnivores with humans

Enrico Di Minin



Can wolves provide ecosystem services in European human-modified landscapes?

Dries Kuijper, Marcin Churski, Jakub Bubnicki



The direct and indirect ways in which humans shape large carnivore populations: Restoring biodiversity and managing coexistence

Robert Alistair Montgomery



Human disturbance on brown bear behavior in human-dominated landscapes

Andres Ordiz



Quantifying the social-ecological drivers of human-carnivore interactions

Christine Eleanor Wilkinson

Symposium 157-2: Bringing biodiversity to cities: conservation challenges in the urbanized world
Location: Room E - Belmeloro Complex
 

Wealth and wildlife in cities: understanding economic and demographic influences to aid urban biodiversity conservation

Irene Regaiolo, Enrico Caprio, Arjun Amar, Péter Batáry, Chevonne Reynolds, Dominic A. W. Henry, Dan Chamberlain



A new tool to assess urban biodiversity: a non-disruptive protocol to characterize the root systems and their interactors.

Gabriella Sferra, Daniele Fantozzi, Dalila Trupiano, Gabriella Stefania Scippa



The impact of urbanisation on diversity, performance and fitness of cavity-nesting Hymenoptera: insights from a large-scale citizen science project

Panagiotis Theodorou, Atilla Çelikgil



Bringing nature to urban gardens: studying attitudes of garden owners towards environmental friendly practices

Orsolya Valkó, Eszter Korom, Katalin Lukács, Réka Kiss, Ágnes Tóth, Benedek Tóth, Abdubakir Kushbokov, Rita Engel, Balázs Deák, Laura Godó



Urban grassland habitats for the conservation of insect diversity

Stephen Venn

Symposium 145: Conservation of genetic diversity for resilient ecosystems
Location: Room F - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Myriam Heuertz
Chair: Elena Buzan
Chair: Joachim Mergeay
Chair: Cristiano Vernesi
 

Beyond SNPs: A holistic assessment of genome-wide diversity in New Zealand’s rarest breeding bird

Jana R Wold, Tammy E Steeves



Monitoring genetic diversity through effective population size (Ne) in plant populations with complex life-history traits

Roberta Gargiulo, Alex D. Twyford, Michael F. Fay



Conserving genetic diversity during climate change: Niche marginality and discrepant monitoring effort in Europe

Peter B. Pearman, Olivier Broennimann, Antoine Guisan



Uneven genetic data limits biodiversity assessments in protected areas globally

Ivan Paz Vinas



Emerging genomics tools and technologies: enhancing biodiversity conservation management with community insights

Elena Buzan, Gernot Segelbacher



Genetic diversity affects ecosystem functions across trophic levels as much as species diversity, but in an opposite direction

Simon Blanchet, Laura Fargeot, Delphine Legrand, Raffard Allan, Géraldine Loot

Symposium 127-2: Vanishing habitats: opportunities and challenges for the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in glacial and proglacial zones.
Location: Room G - Belmeloro Complex
 

Loss of nature contributions to people following glacier retreat.

Nora Khelidj, Simone Balestra, Gianalberto Losapio



Glacier retreat triggers chain reactions across ecological scales: time for conservation actions

Gianalberto Losapio



Recent 5-years plant colonization in proglacial forelands has been faster than expected in two Gran Paradiso National Park study sites (Italian Alps)

Ginevra Nota, Andrea Mainetti, Simone Ravetto Enri, Michele Lonati



Glacier fleas (Collembola) of European Alps: insights on taxonomy, ecology and biogeography for the conservation of micro-endemic species

Barbara Valle



Andean camelids as engineers of post-glacial ecosystems: a regional strategy for adaptation to glacier retreat.

Anaïs Zimmer, Fabien Anthelme, Timothy Beach, Mary Carolina García Lino, Rosa Isela Meneses, Sebastián Rivas Regalado, Jean Salcedo Aliaga



Glaciers and postglacial ecosystems : common goods to protect in the Anthropocene.

Jean-Christophe Clement, Jérôme Poulenard, Florent Arthaud, Cauvy-Fraunié Sophie, Mauro Fischer, Guillaume Costes, Mathias Huss, Jean-Baptiste Bosson

Symposium 163: From knowledge to impact: overcoming barriers to biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes
Location: Room H - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Fabian A. Boetzl
Chair: Lauren Snyder
 

Tackling farmland biodiversity loss: Lessons from transdisciplinary research in Saxony, Germany

Anna Cord



The farmer I want to be: assessing farmer perspectives on their role in multifunctional agricultural landscapes

Malin Gütschow, Bartosz Bartkowski



Optimal design of payments for ecosystem services in the era of weeding robots

Anna Massfeller, Marie Zingsheim, Alireza Ahmadi, Hugo Storm



Access to knowledge and land tenure security promote adoption of diversified farming systems: evidence from a global meta-analysis

Andrea Cecilia Sanchez Bogado, Sarah Jones, Natalia Estrada-Carmona, Damien Beillouin, Cécile Bessou, Bruno Rapidel

Symposium 105: Can biological pest control support farmland biodiversity while maintaining ecosystem services?
Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Peter Batary
Chair: Lorenzo Marini
 

Optimising agri-environment schemes: from general principles to biological pest control

Johan Edvard Ekroos, Henrik G Smith



Floral resources and ground covers promote natural enemies but not pest insects in apple orchards: A global meta-analysis

Christine Judt, Dávid Korányi, Johann G. Zaller, Petér Batáry



The role of birds and bats in the biological control of grape pests

Dávid Korányi, Sándor Zsebők, András Báldi, Mattia Brambilla, Péter Batáry



Pesticide use, farming system and vegetation management drive biodiversity and ecosystem service provision in vineyards - insights of a meta-analysis

Silvia Winter, Léa Beaumelle, Yang Chen, Maria Comsa, Stefan Möth, Sylvie Richart-Cervera, Dumitrita Dascalu, Martin Entling, Rafael Alcalá Herrera, Christoph Hoffmann, Sebastian Kolb, Daniela Popescu, Jo Marie Reiff, Adrien Rusch, Mignon Sandor, Pauline Tolle, Andreas Walzer, Daniel Paredes



Can we predict biological pest control (and its impacts) in agricultural landscapes?

Emily Poppenborg Martin



Ecosystem multi-functionality across agricultural landscapes: trade-offs or synergies among ecosystem services?

Lorenzo Marini, Andree Cappelari

Symposium 106: Non-lethal study methods in conservation biology
Location: Room L - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Marco Ferrante
Chair: Gabor Lovei
 

Why do we need to increase the prominence of non-lethal methods in invertebrate conservation research?

Gabor Lovei, Marco Ferrante



The current and future use of non-lethal methods to study arthropods.

Marco Ferrante, Gabor L Lövei



Radio telemetry as a tool for studying beetles’ movement

Jana Růžičková, Zoltán Elek



Widow spiders spin a history of climate effects on abundance, foraging success, and reproductive potential

Yael Lubin



Non-invasive deep learning based technology to predict the distribution of an invasive mosquito

Zoltan Barta, László Zsolt Garamszegi, Miklós Bán, Ákos Gáspár, Zoltán Soltész, Kornélia Kurucz, Szilárd Szabó, Attila Barta



Nature positive: the case of the Mediterranean monk seal recovery in the Southern Adriatic and Northern Ionian Seas.

Sofia Bonicalza, Emanuele Coppola, Harriet Thatcher, Elena Valsecchi

   
5:30pm
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7:00pm
Workshop 117: One Health Networks to monitor wildlife populations and disease emergence: long-term sustainability of data collection and datasets
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
 

One Health Networks to monitor wildlife populations and disease emergence: long-term sustainability of data collection and datasets

Chair(s): Flavia Occhibove, Stefania Zanet, Rachele Vada, Amir Reza Varzandi, Ezio Ferroglio

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Enetwild 2.0 - Wildlife and One Health

Ezio Ferroglio

 

Transnational harmonised data collection: the observatory approach

Massimo Scandura

Workshop 118: European networks of protected areas: best practices for the conservation of biodiversity
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
 

European networks of protected areas: best practices for the conservation of biodiversity

Chair(s): Gianluca Catullo

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

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Alessandro Chiarucci, Piero Visconti, Marco Galaverni, Francesco Marcone

Workshop 107: Promoting CBD activities in Central and Eastern Europe: challenges and the way forward
Location: Room E - Belmeloro Complex
 

The CBD and the role of experts in the process

Claire Brown



Leveraging Regional and Subregional Cooperation to Enhance CBD Implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework in Central and Eastern Europe

Grégoire Dubois



Why are there so few CEE researchers involved in the CBD and how this could change?

Kinga Öllerer, Tímea Németh, András Báldi

7:30pm
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10:30pm
Tour 2: Bat Night
Location: Parco dei Gessi e dei Calanchi dell'Abbadessa

 
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