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Session Overview
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
Via Beniamino Andreatta, 8, 40126 Bologna
Date: Tuesday, 18/June/2024
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

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

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

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

Date: Wednesday, 19/June/2024
10:00am
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11:00am
Parallel session 19A: Contributed session: Area-based conservation II
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Arash Ghoddousi
 

Mapping global biodiversity hotspots for terrestrial vertebrates

Jonas Geldmann, Harith Harith Farooq



The socioeconomic predictors of biodiversity threats at the global scale

Harith Farooq, Jonas Geldmann



Harnessing species-level data to support post-2020 ecosystem extent mapping

Ruben Remelgado, Carsten Meyer

12:00pm
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1:00pm
Parallel sessions 19A 2: Contributed session: Area-based conservation III
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Heini Kujala
 

Are protected areas effectively tracking threats to terrestrial biodiversity?

Katherine Pulido Chadid, Carsten Rahbek, Jonas Geldmann



A multispecies trait-based landscape connectivity assessment suggests establishing priorities for connectivity restoration in Europe

Davide Serva, Maurizio Biondi, Mattia Iannella



A multitaxonomic assessment of Natura 2000 effectiveness across European biogeographic regions

Lorenzo Ricci, Michele Di Musciano, Francesco Maria Sabatini, Alessandro Chiarucci, Piero Zannini, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Anna Walentowitz, Alexandra Lawrence, Anna Rita Frattaroli, Samuel Hoffmann



Representativeness of Natura 2000 protected areas with respect to the diversity of groundwater Crustacea Copepoda in Europe

Francesco Cerasoli, Lorenzo Ricci, Mattia Di Cicco, Michele Di Musciano, Barbara Fiasca, Emma Galmarini, Diana Maria Paola Galassi

2:30pm
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4:00pm
Symposium 139: Looking back to move forward: the potential of historical ecology for the future of biodiversity conservation
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Laetitia M. Navarro
Chair: Miguel Clavero
 

Shifting the conservation baseline with historical data: implications for decision making

Laetitia M. Navarro, Miguel Clavero



Spy Satellites for Ecology and Conservation

Catalina Munteanu, Benjamin M Kraemer, Henry Hansen, Sofia Miguel, E.J. Millner-Gulland, Mihai Daniel Nita, Igor Ogashawara, Volker C Radeloff, Simone Roverelli, Oleksandra Shumilova, Ilse Storch, Tobias Kuemmerle



Unveiling the biodiversity conservation potential of mining centuries old written sources

Miguel Clavero



The importance of multidisciplinary research in historical ecology: the case of the black francolin (Francolinus francolinus)

Giovanni Forcina, Miguel Clavero, Monica Guerrini, Filippo Barbanera



Circling back: To head into the future of whales’ conservation we must go back in time

Cristina Brito, Patrícia Carvalho, Nina Vieira Vieira



The IUCN Green Status of Species: assessing species recovery against historical baselines

Molly K Grace

4:30pm
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6:00pm
Symposium 108: Sustaining forest ecosystems: exploring ecological connectivity for biodiversity
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Katharina Lapin
 

Seed dispersal networks in regenerating forest fragments in Brazil

Marijke van Kuijk, Robert Timmers



Does fragmentation support plant invasions?

Marcin K. Dyderski



It’s in the matrix – a less fragmented landscape promotes both presence and abundance of conservation relevant species.

Malin Undin, Anita Atrena, Fredrik Carlsson, Mattias Edman, Bengt Gunnar Jonsson, Jennie Sandström



Mammal-informed restoration: LDA insights in Sarawak's oil palm landscapes

Rebekah Puttick

6:00pm
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7:00pm
Parallel sessions 20A 3: Speed session: Area-based conservation VII
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Jonathan Belmaker
 

Navigating the path to 2030: integrating protected area support in development cooperation

Carolin Wicke, Anna Sting, Amélie zu Eulenburg



Does forest strict protection work for plants? Insights from a multifaceted diversity approach in an Italian national park

Zhengxue Zhu, Stefano Chelli, James L. Tsakalos, Alessandro Bricca, Roberto Canullo, Marco Cervellini, Riccardo Pennesi, Luciano L.M. De Benedictis, Vanessa Cesaroni, Giandiego Campetella



Using dark diversity to disentangle the effects of protection and habitat quality on species diversity

Tal Gavriel, Jonathan Belmaker



Challenges in establishing biodiversity conservation programme in Pannonian part of Serbia

Milica Rat, Dimitrije Radišić, Bojana Bokić, Boris Radak, Sonja Mudri Stojnić, Mladen Horvatović, Olivera Bjelić-Čabrilo, Nikola Veljković, Tamara Tot, Goran Anačkov, Mihajla Đan, Dubravka Milić



Assessing the impact of planned linear infrastructure on ecological connectivity: an example from Uganda and South Sudan

Federica Fonda, Fabrizio Bullegas, Giovanni Bacaro



Exploring the role of land abandonment within land sparing and sharing frameworks through ontology and advanced analysis

Karolina Chuda, Piotr Skórka, Łukasz Mikołajczyk, Johannes Knops, Magdalena Lenda



Identification of roadless areas and their significance for nature protection and restoration in the European Union

Riccardo Testolin, Alessandro Chiarucci



Improved ecological criteria for the design and assessment of marine area-based management tools

Lucia Bongiorni, Matthieu Bekaert, Andrea Barbanti, Martina Bocci, Eleonore Cambra, Alessandra Conversi, Ana C.M. Costa, Fien de Raedemaecker, Elena Gissi, Dunja Jusufovski, Jonne Kotta, Stefano Menegon, Kemal Pinarbasi, Isabelle Rombouts, Lawrence Watley, Inne Withouck, Francisco R. Barboza



Sensitivity of REDD+ avoided deforestation estimates to matching specifications

Alejandro Guizar Coutiño, David Coomes, Tom Swinfield, Julia P.G. Jones

Date: Thursday, 20/June/2024
10:00am
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11:00am
Parallel sessions 20A: Contributed session: Area-based conservation IV
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Alessandro Chiarucci
 

Predicting effectivenes of river barrier removal for mitigating climate change impact on freshwater biodiversity in Switzerland

Bernhard Wegscheider, Conor Waldock, Bárbara Calegari, Dario Josi, Ole Seehausen



Mangrove restoration elevates local carbon storage but changes centennial-scale carbon burial dynamics

Heidi L. Burdett, Jinhua Mao, Thi Hien Ha, Thy Thi Duong, Cuong Ho, Michel J. Kaiser, Rona A.R. McGill, Alex J. Poulton, Andrew K. Sweetman, Handong Yang, Thi Kim Nguyen



Relationships between plant communities and soil in restored alkaline wetlands

Edoardo Asquini, Maria De Nobili, Elisa Pellegrini, Davide Mosanghini, Giuseppe Oriolo, Paolo Cingano, Giacomo Trotta, Marco Vuerich, Francesco Boscutti



Where to restore – an approach to spatial prioritization of connectivity forests for forest landscape restoration

Bengt Gunnar Jonsson, Xiaoming Wang, Johan Svensson, Navinder Singh, Andrés Lopez-Peinado, Jakub Bubnicki, Per Angelstam, Grzegorz Mikusiński, Jonas Ardö

12:00pm
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1:00pm
Parallel sessions 20A 2: Contributed session: Area-based conservation V
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Stefan Kreft
 

Using social media records to inform conservation planning

Shawan Chowdhury, Sultan Ahmed, Shofiul Alam, Monika Böhm, Corey T Callaghan, Sayam U Chowdhury, Ricardo A Correia, Priyanka Das, Moreno Di Marco, Enrico Di Minin, Jeffrey O Hanson, Ivan Jarić, Mahzabin M Labi, Md Rokonuzzaman, Uri Roll, Valerio Sbragaglia, Asma Siddika, Richard J Ladle, Sharif A Mukul, Aletta Bonn, Richard A Fuller



Decision-support tools to consider biodiversity in spatial planning

Noëlle Klein, Alina Suter, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey



Quantifying gains from restoration actions for biodiversity offsetting when using habitat hectares

Joel Jalkanen, Eini Nieminen, Aapo Ahola, Heini Kujala, Janne Kotiaho, Atte Moilanen



Reconciling mining and conservation in biodiversity hotspots: time for a new perspective?

Julia P G Jones, Katie Devenish, Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Rio Heriniaina, Simon Willcock, Kathryn Goodenough

2:30pm
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4:00pm
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
 

The role of ethics in conservation: tools and methodologies

Barbara de Mori



The ethical and media content analysis of human-large carnivores conflicts: the "JJ4" case study from Trentino, Italy

Simone Basile, Elena Mercugliano, Sally Carraro, Veronica Nanni, Arianna Dissegna, Barbara de Mori



Using decision trees and the Bateson’s cube in ethically-sensitive conservation scenarios

Pierfrancesco Biasetti



Conservation ethics in practice: the 3Rs principles in wildlife research

Miriam A. Zemanova

4:30pm
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6:00pm
Symposium 142: Sharing space in multiple-use landscapes: aligning human and wildlife needs
Location: Room A - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Arash Ghoddousi
Chair: Ranjini Murali
 

Drivers of people’s preferred population trend for different wildlife types across 15 countries

Lisa Lehnen, Jörg Albrecht, Arbieu Ugo, Böhning-Gaese Katrin, Glikman Jenny Anne, Johansson Maria, Mehring Marion, Schneider Flurina, Mueller Thomas



Mapping perceived benefits of coexisting with large carnivores in Spain through the environmental rangers’ lenses

Jenny Anne Glikman, Miguel Delibes Mateos, Maria Gonzalez Granados, Fernando Garrido, Patricia H. Vaquerizas, Zebensui Morales Reyes, Rafael Villafuerte, Maria Martínez Jauregui



The Ogiek's role in the socio-ecological landscape of Mount Elgon, Kenya

Stephanie Marie Brittain



Cost-effectiveness of conservation interventions to maintain viable populations of top predators in a global deforestation hotspot

Alfredo Romero-Muñoz, Marie Pratzer, Tobias Kuemmerle



Socio-economic shocks as challenges for large carnivore conservation

Ranjini Murali, Matthias Baumann, Arash Ghoddousi, Alfredo Romero Muñoz, Daniel Mueller, Tobias Kümmerle



Assessing the coexistence of snow leopard, its prey and pastoralists under climate change in Central Asia

Arash Ghoddousi, Juliana Eggers, Katrin Kirchner, Tatjana Rosen, Stefan Michel, Koustbuh Sharma, Maarten Hofman, Tobias Kuemmerle

Date: Friday, 21/June/2024
10:00am
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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

Albin Larsson Ekström, Joakim Hjältén, Therese Löfroth



Navigating protected areas (PA) towards an uncertain future’

Ole R. Vetaas, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Richard Field, Alessandro Chiarucci



The role of protected and conserved areas in preserving bicultural diversity

Helena Alves-Pinto, Jonas Geldmann



Vulnerability assessment guide for European climate-smart MPA development

Eléonore Cambra, Alessandra Conversi, Stefano Menegon, Lucia Bongiorni, Matthieu Bekaert, Elena Gissi

12:00pm
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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?

Raphaël Proulx



The Role of Biophobia, Nature Relatedness, and Knowledge on ESS in the Acceptance of NbS in Urban Areas- A Hybrid Choice Experiment

Lee Gafter, Anat Tchetchik, Assaf Shwartz



From landscape-scale restoration to species conservation: Unraveling the diversity of rewilding initiatives in Europe

Johan Busse von Colbe, Jacqueline Loos, Brenda Maria Zoderer



Free organisms for bending the curve of biodiversity loss

Geert de Snoo, Kees Musters

2:30pm
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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

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti



Interactions between renewable energies and other human-induced threats to biodiversity

Antonella Gorosábel, Jonas Geldmann



Experimentally broadcasted wind-turbine noise alters songbirds' habitat selection and vocal communication in a natural environment

Yael Lehnardt, Tom Klein, Jesse R. Barber, Oded Berger-Tal



Insect meal in aquaculture: what Italian consumers think about it?

Margherita Masi, Yari Vecchio, Ernesto S. Marrocco, Gizem Yeter, Felice Adinolfi


 
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