Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Friday, 21/June/2024 | |||
| 8:30am - 6:30pm |
Slide Center 21/06: Slide Center Location: Room Q - Belmeloro Complex |
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| 8:30am - 7:00pm |
Registration 21/06: Registration and Information Desk Location: Registration Desk |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Plenary: Francesco Ficetola: Environmental DNA to understand multifaceted impacts on biodiversity Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Michela Pacifici |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
Parallel sessions 21A: Contributed session: Area-based conservation VI Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Lisa Tedeschi Restoring beyond species diversity - restoration effects on taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity Navigating protected areas (PA) towards an uncertain future’ The role of protected and conserved areas in preserving bicultural diversity Vulnerability assessment guide for European climate-smart MPA development |
Parallel sessions 21B: Contributed session: Methods VI Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Ricardo Rocha Hyperbolic discounting underpins response curves of mammalian avoidance behaviour Towards an automated protocol for wildlife density estimation using camera-traps The untapped potential of camera traps for farmland biodiversity monitoring Can we predict the predation pressure of owned domestic cats on all birds in the united states? |
Parallel sessions 21C: Contributed session: Agroecology VI Location: Room C - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Szabolcs Lengyel Field size and crop composition impact winter bird assemblages in agriculture-savanna mosaics of western India Environmental and management factors drive biological communities and ecosystem services in agroecosystems along an urban-natural gradient Wetland management: how do management type and intensity influence amphibian communities of alkali marshes The impacts of integrated farming systems on biodiversity : a focus on bats and their insect prey. |
| Parallel sessions 21D: Contributed session: People & Nature VII Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Moreno Di Marco Stakeholders’ perceptions of wild deer and lethal methods to mitigate their impacts Human encroachment on charismatic species habitats – the case of orchids in Israel The gender dynamics of wild meat: Mapping women’s roles and their influence in tropical wild meat systems Evaluating the effectiveness of a large scale campaign aimed at reducing demand for wild meat in the megacity of Kinshasa, DRC |
Parallel sessions 21E: Contributed session: Policy & Governance V Location: Room E - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Stefan Kreft Data-driven counterfactual evaluation of management outcomes to improve emergency conservation decisions How changes in legal status affect wolf population dynamics Supporting wolf dispersal flow in heavily-anthropized areas: an example of successful collaboration between scientific research and governance A gap in media communication of human-bear conflicts management |
Parallel sessions 21F: Contributed session: Biodiversity XII Location: Room F - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Francesco Santi The curious story of sympatric bees and their viruses: the implication of floral resources and bee immunity on virus sharing across bee taxa Preserving the Ground beneath the Paws: does the Biodiversity Hypothesis matter for Wildlife Health? Ecological networks in an Alpine glacier ecosystem Floristic studies and their importance in biodiversity conservation |
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| Parallel sessions 21G: Contributed session: Global change III Location: Room G - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Elena Gissi A unique refugium from global warming in the eastern Mediterranean Sea The lichen biota of the Dolomites in a climate change scenario Bioclimatic velocity effects on tree species shifts in Mediterranean island mountains Reduced environmental impacts and mitigated climate change through diversification of vegetable oil production |
Parallel sessions 21H: Contributed session: Biodiversity IX Location: Room H - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Giordano Mancini The role of individual predator traits in wolf feeding behavior Born to be wild: wolves’ occupancy dynamics in the Italian Alps Enemy effect: wolves and humans altering ungulates spatiotemporal interactions Wolf inter-territorial variation in prey use and selection in a multi-ungulate system |
Parallel sessions 21I: Speed session: Biodiversity XVII Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Giovanni Cilia Designated juvenile surveys identify cobble beds as important nursery habitats of coral reef fishes The Aquarium of Pisa University and its contribution in enhancing biodiversity conservation’s awareness An experience of twenty years of ex-situ and in situ collective conservation efforts to save species from the extinction: The European bison project Don’t shock the monkey! A non-invasive multidisciplinary approach to the study of conservation issues for Macaca maura in South Sulawesi, Indonesia Adapting to the heat: Insights into wild boar’s thermoregulatory strategies using biologging data Wildlife behavioural plasticity contributes to fine-scale spatio-temporal avoidance of humans Variation in bat species richness and activity along an altitudinal gradient in the Western Alps: Insights from acoustic monitoring Urban pollinators in Italy: linking green areas with species diversity, interaction networks and ecosystem services for sustainable urban planning Where The Wild Dogs Are: Range-wide distribution modelling of an endangered African carnivore |
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| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
Coffee break with poster display Location: Zoology Museum |
Coffee break Location: Catering Points - Belmeloro Complex |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Parallel sessions 21A 2: Contributed session: People & Nature I Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Bengt Gunnar Jonsson How boring are humans in comparison to Mother Nature? The Role of Biophobia, Nature Relatedness, and Knowledge on ESS in the Acceptance of NbS in Urban Areas- A Hybrid Choice Experiment From landscape-scale restoration to species conservation: Unraveling the diversity of rewilding initiatives in Europe Free organisms for bending the curve of biodiversity loss |
Parallel sessions 21B 2: Contributed session: Methods VII Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Lisa Tedeschi Forest management has contrasting effects on the functional diversity of bird and mammal communities Quantifying variability: expanding the knowledge on reproductive traits in functional ecology Disentangling direct and trophic-mediated effects of forest structure and retention measures on forest birds A simple measure of habitat heterogeneity is a good proxy of species of conservation concern |
Parallel sessions 21C 2: Contributed session: Urban ecology II Location: Room C - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Szabolcs Lengyel Urban biodiversity in drylands – trends, mechanisms, uniqueness, and future perspectives Buzzing in the concrete jungle: Unraveling wild bees’ health in urban contexts through different molecular and morphological analysis Crow control by trapping and its impacts on the urban crow population and bird community Variation in tolerance behavior of the threatened Nubian ibex inside human settlements |
| Parallel sessions 21D 2: Contributed session: People & Nature VIII Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Jenny Anne Glikman Supporting biocultural connections in conservation translocations Assessing climate change impacts on Congo Basin biodiversity from a local ecological knowledge perspective Returning and restoring biodiversity: guidance on human dimensions Sensemaking and abductive reasoning for transformative biodiversity conservation |
Parallel sessions 21E 2: Contributed session: Global change II Location: Room E - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Michele Lussu Phenology mediates population responses of animals to temperature globally Phenological response of Batesian mimicry complex (Bumblebee - hoverflies) The role of ecological and life-history traits in mediating spatial responses to global change in mammal species Short-distance migratory birds with faster range shifts show delays in their passage dates |
Parallel sessions 21F 2: Contributed session: Biodiversity XIII Location: Room F - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Francesco Maria Sabatini Impacts of future forest use on biodiversity, ecosystem services and climate Lichens on standing deadwood: the role of deadwood age and challenges for conservation Long-standing deadwood – the impact of substrate origin on wood-inhabiting fungal communities. |
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| Parallel sessions 21G 2: Contributed session: Global change IV Location: Room G - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Camila Leandro Flying from lowlands to summits: projected effects of climate change on butterflies in Central Italy Altitudinal distributions and shifts of European mountain birds differ between slopes Climate extremes show higher importance than climate means in limiting mammals species ranges |
Parallel sessions 21H 2: Contributed session: Biodiversity X Location: Room H - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Gentile Francesco Ficetola Assessing landscape connectivity to enhance conservation efforts of an endangered large predator (Cuon alpinus) in Southeast Asia Vocal characterisation and mapping of the naturally hybridised gibbon in central Borneo, Indonesia Population trends of terrestrial mammals in community forests of Indonesian Borneo |
Parallel sessions 21I 2: Speed session: Biodiversity XVIII Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Matilde Martini Ecological Dynamics and Coexistence Patterns of Wild and Domestic Mammals in an Abandoned Landscape in Northern Portugal Challenges in population censuses of endangered species: what we learned from dormant geophytes Threats to the conservation status of lowland heathlands neighbouring Milano Malpensa airport in north-west Italy: big concerns based on IUCN criteria Wels catfish (Silurus glanis) management strategies in the LIFE Minnow Project: from telemetry studies to control and use in circular economy A case study on the impact of coppicing for small mammal conservation in Italy Are insects declining also in Sweden? Analysis of 35 years of suction trap samples Who is using Tree-related Microhabitats? |
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| 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
Lunch Event 21 1: Conservation journals editor events (Carlo Rondinini) Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex |
Lunch Break 21/06: Lunch Break Location: Catering Points - Belmeloro Complex |
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| 2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Parallel sessions 21A 3: Contributed session: People & Nature II Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Adriana Consorte-McCrea Ecological Peace Corridors as a new conservation strategy for human and biological diversity Interactions between renewable energies and other human-induced threats to biodiversity Experimentally broadcasted wind-turbine noise alters songbirds' habitat selection and vocal communication in a natural environment Insect meal in aquaculture: what Italian consumers think about it? |
Parallel sessions 21B 3: Contributed session: Methods VIII Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Neftalí Sillero Managing different personalities: effects of forestry practices on American red squirrel personality distributions and activity patterns Risky business: revealing the selective advantages for bold and aggressive small mammals in managed forest landscapes Predicting the range-shifts of woody plant species: consequences of gray squirrel personality for the dispersal of novel seeds The conservation value of disproportionately consequential individuals: results from an 8-year field experiment on small mammal seed dispersers |
Parallel sessions 21C 3: Speed session: Agroecology VIII Location: Room C - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Linh Bao Nguyen Effectiveness of forest restoration for the conservation of pollinators in agricultural landscapes Utilizing UAV technology to streamline monitoring for the conservation of segetal flora in arable land Virus distributions in wild bees (Andrena spp.) and managed honey bees are associated with floral communities at local and landscape scales Ground-dwelling arthropods as biodiversity indicators in maize agroecosystems of Northern Italy Biodiversity conservation in viticulture through fungicide reduction and landscape diversification Application of nature-based and nature-made solutions in water retention: human-nature conflicts and possible ways to move forward To safeguard pollinators’ food resources you need to calculate them The role of ancient burial mounds in conserving medical plant diversity in fragmented agricultural landscape |
| Parallel sessions 21D 3: Speed session: Methods XII Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Sophie Calmé Visual identification of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) individuals from camera trap images Spectral Rarity: a signal from the hidden elements of biodiversity Bathymetric mapping and species recognition in the Indian Ocean: leveraging deep learning techniques for comprehensive environmental monitoring Conservation management tools for increasing structural and compositional biodiversity in Natura2000 oak forests Life4OakForests LIFE16NAT/IT/000245 GIS-based extraction of landscape units for pedodiversity, ecosystem analysis, monitoring and management Long-term monitoring design for mammals in urban contexts Novel low-costs GPS trackers to evaluate placement of marine protected areas used by sea turtles in a biodiversity hotspot. Monitoring changes in carrying capacity through time: why and how? |
Parallel sessions 21E 3: Speed session: Policy & Governance VII Location: Room E - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Moreno Di Marco Silence of the Dams: Stakeholder Perceptions of Reintroduced Beavers in Germany An unusual thing - a regional fire history in northern Sweden Towards a more equitable future: advancing inclusive global biodiversity research through collective action Headline indicators to assess the status and trends of biodiversity in Austria The RiPartyAmo Project: Restoring and preserving nature through active collaborations Feral horses at the city gate: relationship with sympatric species and rewilding opportunity Impacts of Free-Ranging Dogs on Native Wildlife in a Human-Dominated Desert A local welfare perspective on biodiversity offsetting policy: A mixed methods case-study from Southeast England |
Parallel sessions 21F 3: Contributed session: Biodiversity XI Location: Room F - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Michelle Henley Comparative study of habitats & sustainability of natural & reintroduced populations of Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros The future is not bright for Anatolian Brown Bears The effects of landscape woody features cover and spatial configuration on bat activity – implications for woodland creation Can olive groves support bat conservation during winter? A case study from Tuscany, Italy |
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| Parallel sessions 21G 3: Contributed session: Methods X Location: Room G - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Andrea Cristiano Demographic resilience: does time matter? Location, location, location: how we represent species ranges is highly important for conservation Harnessing FAIR biodiversity data and services to assess incidence and habitat vulnerability to non-indigenous species in Italy New monitoring tool to unravel fine-scale plant-pollinator interactions |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Tea break 21/06: Tea break Location: Catering Points - Belmeloro Complex |
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| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Awards Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex Early Careed Awards Poster award Award children competition |
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| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
Final event and closing ceremony Location: Room B - Belmeloro Complex |
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