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Session Overview
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Via Beniamino Andreatta, 8, 40126 Bologna
Date: Monday, 17/June/2024
4:30pm
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5:15pm
Early-career icebreaker
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Date: Tuesday, 18/June/2024
11:00am
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12:30pm
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

12:30pm
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2:00pm
Lunch Event 18 1: Lunch discussion on DEIJ in conservation fieldwork (Emma Marjakangas)
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
2:00pm
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3:30pm
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

4:00pm
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5:30pm
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

5:30pm
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7:00pm
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

Date: Wednesday, 19/June/2024
10:00am
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11:00am
Parallel session 19D: Contributed session: People & Nature III
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Heini Kujala
 

Desert tourism pressure on wildlife around natural water sources

Einat Zahabian, David Saltz, Oded Berger-Tal



“Milking the lions”: conservation performance payments in eastern and southern Africa

Joseph Hamm, George Holmes, Mathew Bukhi Mabele, Julia Martin-Ortega



Cashing in, or selling out? Measuring attitudes towards market-oriented conservation in non-expert audiences.

Ellesse Janda, Daniel Barrios-O’Neil, Chris Sandbrook, George Holmes, Janet Fisher, Rogelio Luque-Lora, Aidan Keane



A framework for understanding the experience of nature through cognitive mapping

Nitzan Dan-Rakedzon, Whitney Fleming, Nurit Lissovsky, Susan Clayton, Assaf Shwartz

12:00pm
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1:00pm
Parallel sessions 19D 2: Contributed session: People & Nature IV
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Carlos Bautista
 

Does supplementary feeding change the home range size in terrestrial mammals?

Astrid Olejarz, Tomasz Podgórski



Using TrailGuard AI as an early-warning system for local forest staff and communities to promote human-elephant coexistence in Jhargram, West Bengal

Sankarshan Rastogi, Wajid Ali Shah, Piyush Yadav, Andy Lee, Steve Gullick, Richard Schroeder, H.S. Negi, Eric Dinerstein, Sumana Bhattacharyya



The role of wildlife-human interactions in modelling communities

Francesca Rolle, Maria Virginia Boiani, Francesca Marucco



Interactions between livestock guarding dogs and wildlife in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania

Bethany R. Smith, Richard W. Yarnell, Katherine Whitehouse-Tedd, Iain Trewby, Antonio Uzal

1:00pm
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2:30pm
Lunch Event 19 1: SCB Italy Chapter annual meeting (Michela Pacifici)
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Agenda of the event:
- Renewal of board members in autumn
- Early Career Researcher Conference 2025
- Activity plan for next year
- AOB
2:30pm
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4:00pm
Symposium 130: Sustainable land use: biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services in Mediterranean agroforestry systems
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Bea Maas
Chair: Giacomo Santini
 

Linking biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service management in Mediterranean olive cultivation landscapes

Bea Maas



Why bats need sustainable farmland, and why sustainable farmland needs bats

Danilo Russo



Biodiversity drivers and ecological services in agroecosystems: insights from birds, bats and apples.

Daniel García, Marcos Miñarro



Scale dependency of biodiversity-friendly land management - a FRAMEWORK case study

Anna-Camilla Moonen, Alice Caselli, Simone Marini, Malayka S. Picchi, Matteo Dellapiana



Disentangling trophic relationships in agroecosystems for sustainable management: lessons from ants

Giacomo Santini, Alberto Masoni

4:30pm
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6:00pm
Symposium 171: Protected area planning and management in Italy
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Carlo Rondinini
Chair: Diletta Santovito
 

“Gimme shelter”: insights into the role of artificial aquatic sites for amphibian conservation and future directions of management

Alessandra Maria Bissattini, Vincenzo Buono, Denise D'Ambrosio, Marco Alberto Bologna, Leonardo Vignoli



Mediterranean islands and protected areas towards the 2030 Biodiversity Targets

Alessandro Chiarucci, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Michele Di Musciano, Anke Jentsch, Francesco Santi, Riccardo Testolin, Ole R. Vetaas, Richard Field



Conservation gaps of Natura 2000 (N2k) network in preserving European Habitat: an accurate prioritization is needed.

Michele Di Musciano, Lorenzo Ricci, Francesco Maria Sabatini, Jonas Geldmann, Anna Rita Frattaroli, Alessandro Chiarucci



Integrating marine connectivity in the maritime spatial planning of Italian seas

Sofia Raschetti, Elena Gissi, Stefano Menegon, Emiliano Ramieri, Lucia Bongiorni, Andrea Barbanti, Marco Andrello, Manuela D'Amen



High-resolution climatic projections for Italian tetrapods

Nina Luisa Santostasi, Luigi Maiorano, Santini Luca, Rondinini Carlo



Contribution of Italian roadless areas to nature conservation targets

Riccardo Testolin, Alessandro Chiarucci

6:00pm
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7:00pm
Parallel sessions 20D 3: Speed session: Global change V
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Luca Santini
 

Effects of future climate extremes and land use changes on land vertebrates

Reut Vardi, Gopal Murali, Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetano, Uri Roll, Shai Meiri



Comparing two native Mediterranean honey bee subspecies (Apis mellifera ligustica and Apis mellifera iberiensis) for resilience to climatic stressors

Giovanni Cilia, Soledad Sagastum, Antonio Nanetti, Raquel Martín Hernández



Effects of drought on plant-pollinator interactions in a multi-factorial grassland experiment

Theresia Krausl, Veronica Hederström, Yuanyuan Quan, Yann Clough



Bridging the gap between climate and conservation: "climate-proofing" lion conservation through time

Thomas Pavey



Evaluating climate change impact on three endemic plants at regional and sub-regional scale

Domenico Amantea, Domenico Gargano, Gabriele Casazza



Coral trophic strategy and growth mode affect tissue recovery response to ocean warming and acidification at a shallow CO2 vent

Teresa Sani, Fiorella Prada, Giulia Radi, Erik Caroselli, Giuseppe Falini, Zvy Dubinsky, Stefano Goffredo



Conservation measures facilitate Waterbird Responses to Climate Warming

Leonie Jonas, Elie Gaget, Martin Jung, Jon E Brommer



Impact of climate and land use change on the distribution of orchids in Estonia

Davide Nepote Valentin, Chiara Richiardi, Martino Adamo, Stefano Mammola, Tiiu Kull



More than meets the eye: unraveling anthropic land use impacts on skin microbiota of an opportunistic amphibian species

Giulio Galla, Lucia Zanovello, Matteo Girardi, Stefano Casari, Irene Lo Presti, Paolo Pedrini, Giorgio Bertorelle, Heidi C. Hauffe



Effects of land-use on paleochannel grasslands in the argentinean dry chaco: a decade of change

Maria Soledad Andrade-Diaz, German Baldi, Maria Piquer-Rogriguez

Date: Thursday, 20/June/2024
10:00am
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11:00am
Parallel sessions 20D: Contributed session: People & Nature V
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Jenny Anne Glikman
 

Public preference for the rewilding framework: a choice experiment in the oder delta

Rowan Dunn-Capper, Marek Giergiczny, Néstor Fernández, Fabian Marder, Henrique Miguel Pereira



Beyond the screen: Investigating viewers' interactions with nature through a yearly Swedish moose migration TV broadcast

Minh-Xuan Truong, René Van der Wal



Between Nature, Biodiversity, and ecosystem services – what is the focus of our conservation efforts – a philosophical approach

David Saltz, Uri Roll, Shlomo Cohen



Exploring the human-nature nexus towards effective nature-based solutions: the Aral Sea case

Shahzoda Alikhanova, EJ Milner-Gulland, Joseph Bull

12:00pm
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1:00pm
Parallel sessions 20D 2: Contributed session: People & Nature VI
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Carlos Bautista
 

Roadless areas are cool!

Monika T. Hoffmann, Katarzyna Ostapowicz, Pierre L. Ibisch, Nuria Selva



Planning Wildlife Crossing Structures along roads in an Open Natural Ecosystem

Ashish Kumar Jangid, Devendra Dutta Pandey, Sutirtha Dutta



SAFE Project: developing a conceptual framework to roadkill surveys in order to estimate vertebrate mortality with citizen science at a country scale

Marcello D'Amico, Carlos Rodríguez, Miguel Clavero, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Maria Paniw, Jacinto Román, Eloy Revilla



Traffic intensity and vegetation management affect flower-visiting insects and their response to resources in road verges

Svenja Horstmann, Alistair G. Auffret, Lina Herbertsson, Björn Klatt, Sophie Müller, Erik Öckinger

2:30pm
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4:00pm
Symposium 137: Biodiversity-friendly food labels and certification: perspectives for the European agriculture and conservation policy
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Tanja Šumrada
 

Comparative case study analysis of biodiversity-friendly food certification schemes and businesses in Europe

Tanja Šumrada, Živa Alif



A Credit Point System for assessing and enhancing biodiversity at the farm scale - and beyond

Simon Birrer, Judith Zellweger-Fischer



Farmers’ preferences for biodiversity labelling in four European countries

Kati Häfner



Do protected areas contribute to the shift of farmers cultural norms towards nature-friendly farming? A Slovenian Perspective

Ana Novak, Živa Alif, Luka Juvančič, Tanja Šumrada



The Great Big Nature Survey: understanding public opinions of nature and conservation across the United Kingdom

Aidan Keane, Daniel Barrios-O'Neill, Janet Fisher, George Holmes, Ellesse Janda, Rogelio Luque-Lora, Chris Sandbrook

4:30pm
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6:00pm
Symposium 146: Understanding compliance for fairer conservation
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Freya St John
Chair: Harriet Ibbett
 

Ethical challenges of asking people directly about compliance

Harriet Ibbett



Human Dimensions from the blue horizon: behavioural insights for compliance and deterrence

Ana Nuno



Perceived cost and benefits impact support for protected area conservation

Leejiah Dorward, Harriet Ibbett, Asri A. Dwiyahreni, Edward Kohi, Ika Augustin, Joseph Kaduma, Rose Mawenya, Jesca Mchomvu, Karlina Prayitno, Humairah Sabiladiyni, Stephen Sankeni, Jatna Supriatna, Tyas Trywidiarini, Andie Wijaya Saputra, Freya A.V. St John



How conservation rules are enforced matters: lessons from criminal psychology

Freya St John, Harriet Ibbett, Edward Kohi, Stephen Sankeni, Joseph Kaduma, Jesca Mchomvu, Rose Mawenya, Leejiah Dorward

Date: Friday, 21/June/2024
10:00am
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11:00am
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

Elena Cini, Becks Spake, Graeme Shannon, Amy Gresham, Freya St John



Human encroachment on charismatic species habitats – the case of orchids in Israel

Tamar Birman, Enav Vidan, Jonathan Belmaker, Uri Roll



The gender dynamics of wild meat: Mapping women’s roles and their influence in tropical wild meat systems

Jasmin Ella Willis, EJ Milner-Gulland, Lauren Coad, Amy Hinsley



Evaluating the effectiveness of a large scale campaign aimed at reducing demand for wild meat in the megacity of Kinshasa, DRC

Juliet Helen Wright, Divin Malekani, Lude Kinzonzi, Liliana Vanegas, Diogo Verissimo

12:00pm
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1:00pm
Parallel sessions 21D 2: Contributed session: People & Nature VIII
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
Chair: Jenny Anne Glikman
 

Supporting biocultural connections in conservation translocations

Priscilla Wehi, Finley Johnson, Rachael Shaw



Assessing climate change impacts on Congo Basin biodiversity from a local ecological knowledge perspective

Milena Marie Beekmann, Carlo Rondinini, Sandrine Gallois, Célie Moungouya Moukassa



Returning and restoring biodiversity: guidance on human dimensions

Adriana Consorte-McCrea, Shekhar Kolipaka, Jacob Owens, Carlos Ruiz-Miranda, Sian Waters



Sensemaking and abductive reasoning for transformative biodiversity conservation

Gonzalo Cortes-Capano, Jacqueline Loos, Anna Hausmann, Teea Kortetmäki

1:00pm
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2:30pm
Lunch Event 21 1: Conservation journals editor events (Carlo Rondinini)
Location: Room D - Belmeloro Complex
2:30pm
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3:30pm
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

Neri Horntvedt Thorsen, Karl Ove Tvete, Richard Bischof, John Odden, John Linnell, Jenny Mattisson, Örjan Johanson, Kirsten Weingarth-Dachs, Fridolin Zimmermann



Spectral Rarity: a signal from the hidden elements of biodiversity

Karyn Noelle Chichi, Michele Di Musciano, Duccio Rocchini, Elisa Thouverai, Lorenzo Ricci, Annarita Frattaroli



Bathymetric mapping and species recognition in the Indian Ocean: leveraging deep learning techniques for comprehensive environmental monitoring

Matteo Contini, Sylvain Poulain, Mohan Julien, Mervyn Ravitchandirane, Julien Barde, Sylvain Bonhommeau, Alexis Joly



Conservation management tools for increasing structural and compositional biodiversity in Natura2000 oak forests Life4OakForests LIFE16NAT/IT/000245

Serena Petroncini



GIS-based extraction of landscape units for pedodiversity, ecosystem analysis, monitoring and management

William Trenti, Mauro De Feudis, Massimo Gherardi, Gilmo Vianello, Livia Vittori Antisari



Long-term monitoring design for mammals in urban contexts

Laura Limonciello, Enrico Mirone, Pushpinder Singh Jamwal, Mirko Di Febbraro, Anna Loy



Novel low-costs GPS trackers to evaluate placement of marine protected areas used by sea turtles in a biodiversity hotspot.

Samuel J. Shrimpton, Eugenie C. Yen, James D. Gilbert, Alberto Queiruga Maneiro, Inês O. Afonso, Sandra M. Correia, Airton Jesus, Elton Neves, Nelson Semedo, Samir Martins, Kenydjeer Lima Rodrigues, Maria Eugenia Medina Suarez, Leila Cristina Lopez Almeida, Albert Taxonera, Axel Rossberg, Christophe Eizaguirre



Monitoring changes in carrying capacity through time: why and how?

Liam Bailey, Eve Davidian, Arjun Dheer, Oliver P. Höner, Viktoriia Radchuk, Leonie Walter, Ella White, Alexandre Courtiol


 
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