Conference Agenda

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

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

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

Uncovering past and present fish growth dynamics using a coupled structural, microchemical and geochronological approach on otoliths

Isabella Leonhard, Emilia Jarochowska, Rafał Nawrot, Lovrenc Lipej, Martin Zuschin

Data integration improves monitoring efficiency for threatened tropical mammals

Ardiantiono -, Nicolas J. Deere, David J.I. Seaman, U. Mamat Rahmat, Eka Ramadiyanta, Muhammad I. Lubis, Ahtu Trihangga, Ahmad Yasin, Gunawan Alza, Dessy P. Sari, M. Daud, Ridha Abdullah, Rina Mutia, Dewi Melvern, Tarmizi -, Jatna Supriatna, Matthew J. Struebig

Modelling the occupancy of forest grouse at multiple spatial scales to improve habitat management in the boreal landscape

Adriano Mazziotta, Andreas Lindén, Kyle Eyvindson, Simone Bianchi, Annika Kangas, Markus Melin, Leena Ruha, Jukka Forsman

Complementary hotspots of endangered species and habitats in Austria: a baseline for PA expansions and restoration

Katharina Huchler, Klaus Peter Zulka, Helmut Kudrnovsky, Stefan Schindler

Chronicles of spectral diversity: unraveling plant alpha and beta diversity in grasslands through a multitemporal lens

Michela Perrone, Christian Rossi, Anita C. Risch, Vítězslav Moudrý, Marco Malavasi

Availability and usability of airborne laser scanning data in conservation biology

Vitezslav Moudry

Multi-taxa habitat suitability and connectivity maps to inform local communities

Vishesh Leon Diengdoh, Florian Kunz, Ursula Nopp-Mayr, Eva Maria Schöll

Atlas based JSDMs to evaluate French protected areas and green corridors performance for insect conservation: the case of Occitanian Butterflies

Camila Leandro Rivel, Ennaloël Mateo-Espada, Aurélien Besnard, Bastien Louboutin, Baptiste Charlot, Stéphane Jaulin, David Soulet, Pierre Jay-Robert

EBVs to support policy and management in Europe

Henrique M. Pereira, Néstor Fernández

Bottlenecks in European biodiversity information flows

Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez, Sara Fraixedas, Sergi Herrando, Gabriel Miret-Minard, Daniel Villero, Lluís Brotons

Assessing monitoring gaps towards the production of Essential Biodiversity Variables in Europe

Joana Santana, Miguel Porto, Lluís Brotons, Néstor Fernández, Jessi Junker, Daniel Kissling, Maria Lumbierres, Jannicke Moe, Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez, Henrique Pereira, Anne Lyche Solheim, Dani Villero, Francisco Moreira, Pedro Beja

Toward an optimal biodiversity monitoring network for Europe: a comparative analysis of sampling designs for robust monitoring

Martina Marei Viti, Jose Valdez, Henrique Miguel Pereira

Connecting stakeholders for biodiversity: a european network

Christian Langer, Jessica Junker, Ivelina Geogieva, Ian McCallum, Henrique M Pereira

Conservation of Mediterranean marine benthic biodiversity through innovative, integrative, and standardized methods

Federica Costantini, Marco Abbiati, Marina Antonia Colangelo, Barbara Mikac, Francesco Mugnai, Alessandro Piazza

Exploring the role of vegetation height heterogeneity through remote sensing information for biodiversity estimation

Michele Torresani, Vítězslav Moudrý, Michela Perrone, Ludovico Chieffallo, Elisa Thouverai, Duccio Rocchini

Monitoring aerial biodiversity using a network of small-scale biological radars

Birgen Haest, Felix Liechti, Silke Bauer

Past, present and future of EU priority habitats, example from the Alps

Marco Ciolli, Clara Tattoni, Stefano Gobbi, Paolo Zatelli

Advancing bat conservation: insights from automatic acoustic long-term monitoring in the Italian Alps

Chiara Paniccia, Alex Bellè, Eva Ladurner, Morgan Scott, Ulrike Tappeiner, Andreas Hilpold

Classification performance in camera trap photos varies across citizen science, artificial intelligence, class types, and environment

Simone Santoro, Santiago Gutiérrez-Zapata, Javier Calzada, Nuria Selva, Iñaki Fernández de Viana, Manuel Emilio Gegúndez

A Systematic Map of the evidence for mesopredator release in terrestrial mammalian systems.

Emily Katherine Madsen

A new tracking technology reveals the movement and habitat use patterns of the invasive common myna (Acridotheres tristis) in a desert environment

Klil Shahar, Uri Roll, Oded Berger-Tal, Krista Oswald, Tamir Rozenberg

Midas touch - monitoring goldenrod invasion with remote sensing and machine learning

Łukasz Mikołajczyk, Magdalena Lenda, Karolina Chuda, Piotr Skórka

Embracing Diversity: The Imperative of Multi-Taxon Approaches in Understanding and Safeguarding Biodiversity in a Changing Environment

Jörgen Sjögren

Enhancing conservation strategies through refined species distribution modeling: a case study with the endangered Cantabrian brown bear.

Alejandra Zarzo-Arias, Vincenzo Penteriani, Lukáš Gábor, Petra Šímová, Florencia Grattarola, Vítězslav Moudrý

Improving the cost efficiency and precision of mountain ungulates’ population counts

Matteo Panaccio, Alice Brambilla, Bruno Bassano, Tessa Smith, Achaz von Hardenberg

Using gradient forest analysis to explore drivers of stream fish community structure in Eastern North America.

Audrey Robert, Pascale Biron, Vincent Fugère

Pl@ntBERT: leveraging large language models to enhance vegetation classification through species composition analysis

César Leblanc, Pierre Bonnet, Maximilien Servajean, Alexis Joly

Harnessing ChatGPT towards Developing a Global Database on Human-Wildlife Conflict

Tanner Smith, Takuya Iwamura

Exploring the toolbox for harmonising vascular plant species point-occurrence data

Diletta Santovito, Riccardo Testolin, Alessandro Chiarucci, Francesco Santi, Duccio Rocchini

Assessing the landscape of digital identifiers for capturing online species data

Ricardo Correia, Maxim Isaac

Multifunctional landscapes as a tool for conservation of forest biodiversity

Paulina Bergmark, Joakim Hjältén, Johan Svensson, Wiebke Neumann, Anne-Maarit Hekkala

Biodiversity resilience in old-growth forests: An investigation of species diversity dynamics pre- and post-pest outbreaks peaks

Yousef Erfanifard, Maciej Lisiewicz, Miłosz Mielcarek, Lukasz Kuberski, Krzysztof Stereńczak

Crafting a forest biodiversity index: uncovering the relationship between forest structure and bird occupancy

Gabriel Miret-Minard, Virgilio Hermoso, Lluís Brotons, Alejandra Morán-Ordoñez

Enhancing conservation strategies with a hierarchical revisit of Hanski's incidence function from single to multi-species

Aymeric Oliveira-Xavier, Dominique Gravel, Sophie Calmé

Investigating online wildlife trade using machine learning

Enrico Di Minin

The inroads of machine learning in Conservation Science

Ritwik Kulkarni, Enrico Di Minin

What makes a bird charismatic?

Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetano, Diogo Veríssimo, Andrea Soriano, Ana Sofia Vaz, Enrico Di Minin, Valerio Sbragaglia, Richard Greyner, Richard Ladle, Thainá Lessa, Krista Oswald, Ivan Jaric, Uri Roll

Enhancing Visitor Engagement and Conservation Management through AI Analysis of Social Media Images – an example from birding sites in Israel

Victor China, Enav Vidan, Yoram Yom-Tov, Uri Rull

ClimateMedia: Understanding climate change phenomena and impacts from digital technology and social media

Ana Sofia Cardoso, Catarina Da Silva, Alípio Jorge, João Santos, Ana Sofia Vaz

MEDigital: A digital observatory of public attention and recreational fishing of Mediterranean marine fishes

Valerio Sbragaglia, Reut Vardi, Ricardo Correia, Ivan Jaric, Uri Roll

Do we pay enough attention to costly invasive alien species?

Ugo Arbieu, Uri Roll, Reut Vardi, Ana Sofia Vaz, Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetano, Andrea Soriano-Redondo, Ana Novoa, Elena Angulo, Franck Courchamp, Christophe Diagne, Boris Leroy, Ivan Jarić

Where is Wally? The search for the invasive plant Cortaderia selloana on citizen-science and social media images!

Ana Sofia Cardoso, Eva Malta-Pinto, Siham Tabik, Tom August, Helen Elizabeth Roy, Ricardo Correia, Joana Raquel Vicente, Ana Sofia Vaz

Human dimensions of biological invasions: novel research opportunities

Ivan Jaric, Ana Novoa, Pavel Pipek, Petr Pysek

Secondary Data: an untapped Treasure for Invasion Biology

Nadja Pernat, Susan Canavan, Marina Golivets, Jasmijn Hillaert, Yuval Itescu, Ivan Jarić, Hjalte M. R. Mann, Pavel Pipek, Cristina Preda, David M Richardson, Heliana Teixeira, Ana Sofia Vaz, Quentin Groom

Time series of societal attention and perception during the invasion process based on recent introductions in the Iberian Peninsula

Rubén Rabaneda Bueno, Ivan Jaric, Pavel Pipek, Ana Novoa, María Loreto Castillo, Petr Pyšek, Valerio Sbragaglia, Allan T. Souza, César Capinha, Gabriel H.O. Caetano, Shawan Chowdhury, Josh A. Firth, Hanno Seebens, Bronwen Hunter

Spatial-temporal patterns of public attention to invasive alien species across an invasion front: a case study from the Mediterranean Sea

Lara Fazzari, Reut Vardi, Ivan Jaric, Ricardo Correia, Valerio Sbragaglia

Hyperbolic discounting underpins response curves of mammalian avoidance behaviour

Michael A. Patten

Towards an automated protocol for wildlife density estimation using camera-traps

Andrea Zampetti, Davide Mirante, Pablo Palencia, Luca Santini

The untapped potential of camera traps for farmland biodiversity monitoring

Stephanie Roilo, Tim Hofmeester, Magali Frauendorf, Anna Widén, Anna Cord

Can we predict the predation pressure of owned domestic cats on all birds in the united states?

Martin Philippe-Lesaffre

Forest management has contrasting effects on the functional diversity of bird and mammal communities

Gabriela Franzoi Dri, Malcolm Hunter, Brian Rolek, Bryn Evans, Alessio Mortelliti

Quantifying variability: expanding the knowledge on reproductive traits in functional ecology

Sonia Paź-Dyderska, Andrzej M. Jagodziński

Disentangling direct and trophic-mediated effects of forest structure and retention measures on forest birds

João Manuel Cordeiro Pereira, Ilse Storch, Grzegorz Mikusiński

A simple measure of habitat heterogeneity is a good proxy of species of conservation concern

Anne-Maarit Hekkala, Joachim Strengbom, Mari Jönsson, Simon Kärvemo, Jörgen Sjögren

Managing different personalities: effects of forestry practices on American red squirrel personality distributions and activity patterns

Brigit R. Humphreys, Allison M. Brehm, Alessio Mortelliti

Risky business: revealing the selective advantages for bold and aggressive small mammals in managed forest landscapes

Allison M Brehm, Alessio Mortelliti

Predicting the range-shifts of woody plant species: consequences of gray squirrel personality for the dispersal of novel seeds

Margaret R. Merz, Francesca Colombini, Alessio Mortelliti

The conservation value of disproportionately consequential individuals: results from an 8-year field experiment on small mammal seed dispersers

Alessio Mortelliti, Allison Brehm, Sara Boone, Brigit Humphreys, Margaret Merz, Ivy Yen