Conference Agenda
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Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Via Beniamino Andreatta, 8, 40126 Bologna |
| Date: Tuesday, 18/June/2024 | |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
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? When is an 'A' truly an 'A'? How to preserve grassland in the context of underuse? An international solution scanning Towards mapping multifunctional landscapes in high-nature value mountain areas The impacts of global changes on the distribution of mountain biodiversity Effects of passive restoration of degraded mountain grasslands on plants and butterflies |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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 Resilient biodiversity? The response of Fagus sylvatica to climatic constraints during the Last Glacial and the Holocene Quantifying the potential niches of endangered plant species for improving reintroduction success Coupling abiotic and biotic proxies in fossil records and modern elevational gradients to assist conservation strategies in mountain ecosystems Ecosystem restoration targeted to historical landscape benchmarks: Case studies from central and southern Italy Palynology to understanding past and present plant community dynamics: the case study of STAPE (Pollino National Park) |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 Floral resources and ground covers promote natural enemies but not pest insects in apple orchards: A global meta-analysis The role of birds and bats in the biological control of grape pests Pesticide use, farming system and vegetation management drive biodiversity and ecosystem service provision in vineyards - insights of a meta-analysis Can we predict biological pest control (and its impacts) in agricultural landscapes? Ecosystem multi-functionality across agricultural landscapes: trade-offs or synergies among ecosystem services? |
| Date: Wednesday, 19/June/2024 | |
| 10:00am - 11:00am |
Parallel session 19I: Contributed session: Biodiversity VI Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Michelle Henley Prioritising Functionally Distinct and Globally Endangered (FuDGE) sharks for conservation action Where’s the catch? Understanding spatio-temporal patterns of elasmobranch bycatch in the central-west coast of India Sharks on the Menu: An assessment of the Consumption of Elasmobranchs in Sri Lanka A review of ‘flatshark’ ecology and conservation: Identifying knowledge gaps and research priorities for some of the world’s most threatened fishes |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Symposium 149-1: Mobilising knowledge for conservation policy and action Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Marine Robuchon Chair: Laura Bosco Chair: Irene Guerrero Proposing indicators for the Global Biodiversity Framework: preparation, output and next steps for the phylogenetic diversity indicators From science to policy: the long journey of genetic diversity indicators Towards evidence-based implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework: challenges for African, Caribbean and Pacific countries Which conservation actions have led to reductions in species extinction risk? Mining threats in high-level biodiversity conservation policies Beyond Baba Dioum's words: unpacking the relationship between biodiversity knowledge and conservation attitudes |
| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
Symposium 149-2: Mobilising knowledge for conservation policy and action Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Marine Robuchon Chair: Laura Bosco Chair: Irene Guerrero Introducing the progress monitoring tools of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 Scenario-making for supporting the EU Biodiversity Strategy Towards an EU Biodiversity Observation Centre to consolidate biodiversity knowledge for conservation policy and action Mobilizing knowledge for the Common Agricultural Policy and the EU Biodiversity Strategy: an expert perspective |
| 6:00pm - 7:00pm |
Parallel sessions 20I 3: Speed session: Biodiversity XVI Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Simone Cutajar A new synthesis of global evidence for the conservation of inland aquatic vegetation Surprising widespread Cymodocea nodosa occurrence along Israel’s Mediterranean coast and Implications for Seagrass Conservation in a hot spot of clim Landscape fragmentation affects polypore diversity on multiple spatial scales Navigating through murky waters: decision analysis provides a clear path forward for complex sturgeon reintroduction considerations Prevalence of Red List DD species limits the application of the EDGE approach for fungi Towards a checklist of floras of Mediterranean islands Examining disturbance and environmental factors acting on true flies (Diptera, Brachycera) of Italian coastal sand dunes Soil arthropod assemblages as indicators of advanced vegetation succession in a highly endangered Croatian peat bog Successful reintroduction of the Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita) to Central Europe challenged by climate change and human made mortality |
| Date: Thursday, 20/June/2024 | |
| 10:00am - 11:00am |
Parallel sessions 20I: Contributed session: Biodiversity XIV Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Achaz von Hardenberg Conservation assessment of Fazao – Malfakassa NP, Togo: an African protected area at the crossroads The Current Conservation Efforts and Future Prospects for the Endangered Nubian Ibex (Capra nubiana ibex) in Sudan Spatial context and playback of conspecific calls affect the success of artificial nests as a conservation measure in a migratory songbird Congruent long-term declines in carbon and biodiversity are a signature of forest degradation |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
Parallel sessions 20I 2: Contributed session: Biodiversity XIX Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Juri Nascimbene Enhancing biodiversity conservation analysis through data harmonization A pond of knowledge: applying multi-disciplinary approaches to amphibian conservation Action Competence for Insect Conservation – A new educational framework for transformational change Habitat loss, extinction debt and climate change threaten terricolous lichens in lowland open dry habitats |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Symposium 156-1: Conservation of freshwater ecosystems: Can we be biodiversity positive by 2030? Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Marco Cantonati Global conservation of groundwater biodiversity Small fish, small streams, big challenges: how fish populations have evolved in the upper Po basin and what can we do to reverse their decline? The demise of springs: A silent global crisis Rivers: critically important for nature and people but increasingly stressed by many impacts The fundamental contribution of lakes to global fresh waters and to the conservation of their biodiversity and ecosystem services Representativeness and conservation value of Mediterranean temporary ponds in Europe. Local and large-scale issues. |
| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
Symposium 156-2: Conservation of freshwater ecosystems: Can we be biodiversity positive by 2030? Location: Room I - Belmeloro Complex Chair: Marco Cantonati How do native plants withstand the competition with invasives? A functional and environmental comparison in freshwaters What do we know about the ecology of aquatic Isoëtes species? Data gaps and opportunities to improve the global protection of truly iconic plants The functional role of spring-ecosystem biodiversity Diatoms from the Mire of Fiavé: Their contribution to a multidisciplinary study to assess the conservation biology problems of the mire Impact of cattle grazing on alpine mires as recorded by peat properties and diatoms: Insights for a sustainable conservation Cultural aspects related to Mediterranean springs and their reflections in the stewardship and management of these unique but fragile ecosystems |
| Date: Friday, 21/June/2024 | |
| 10:00am - 11:00am |
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 |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
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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