Conference Agenda

The edible sea urchin in Western Sardinia (Italy): do effective conservation measures matter?

Daniele Grech^1,2, Gianni Brundu^1,2, Veronica Santinelli^1,2, Cinzia Podda^1,2, Erika Maria Diletta Porporato^1,2, Maura Baroli^1,2, Ivan Guala¹

¹IMC - International Marine Centre, Loc. Sa Mardini, Torregrande - 09170 Oristano, Italy; ²NBFC - National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo - 90133, Italy

Exploring small-scale fishing in southern Italy's marine protected areas: unveiling essential habitats for ecosystem conservation

Luca Appolloni, Domenico Ciorciaro, Roberto Sandulli, Giovanni Russo

University Parthenope of Naples

Biogeographical patterns of endemic flies in the islands of Corse and Sardinia

Dario Nania, Pierfilippo Cerretti

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Comparing climate-induced changes of marine megafauna species and functional diversity across scenarios to identify potential climate refugia

Elena Gissi^1,2,3, Jamie McDevitt-Irwin^2,4, Kristin Kaschner⁵, Kathleen Kesner-Reyes⁶, Elliott Hazen^7,8, Rosalia Santoleri¹, Fiorenza Micheli^2,9

¹Italian National Research Council, Italy; ²Oceans Department, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, USA; ³National Biodiversity Future Center, Italy; ⁴Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA; ⁵Department of Biometry and Environmental Systems Analysis, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; ⁶Quantitative Aquatics, Los Baños, Philippines; ⁷NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, CA, USA; ⁸University of California - Santa Cruz, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Santa Cruz, CA, USA; ⁹Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, Pacific Grove, CA, USA

Maërl beds in the Arctic: Distribution analysis in Icelandic waters

Urður Ýrr Brynjólfsdóttir^1,2, Haseeb Randhawa², Julian Burgos¹

¹Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Iceland; ²Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland

Long-term trends in the size structure of mollusc indicator species of the northern Adriatic Sea

Lukas Schweigl¹, Rafał Nawrot¹, Adam Tomašových², Martin Zuschin¹

¹University of Vienna, Department of Palaeontology, Vienna, Austria; ²Slovak Academy of Sciences, Earth Science Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia