Conference Agenda

The ecological consequences of treescape expansion through planting and natural colonisation

Laura Braunholtz¹, Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor¹, Kirsty Park¹, Thiago Silva¹, Kevin Watts², Matt Guy², Julia Koricheva³

¹University of Stirling, United Kingdom; ²Forest Research, United Kingdom; ³Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

Plasticity in resource selection along anthropogenic gradients

Manisha Bhardwaj¹, Wibke Peters², Francesca Cagnacci³

¹Wildlife Ecology and Management, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Str 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; ²Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Wildlife Management, Bavarian State Institute for Forestry, Hans-Carl-von Carlowitz Platz 1, 85354 Freising, Germany; ³Animal Ecology Unit, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Via E. Mach 1, 38010 San Michele all’Adige, Italy

Ecological plasticity of charophytes across a latitudinal gradient (southern Italy-Egypt) and its implications for conservation

Alessandro Bellino¹, Daniela Baldantoni¹, Marco Cantonati², Adel F. Hamed³, Neamat H. El-Tablawy³, Abdullah A. Saber³

¹Department of Chemistry and Biology “Adolfo Zambelli”, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132 – 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy; ²BIOME Lab, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences—BiGeA, Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy; ³Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia Square, Cairo 11566, Egypt

Climate and land use explain mid-elevation declines in open-land birds

Tyler Hallman¹, Jérôme Guélat², Nicolas Strebel², John Kilbride³, Eliane Meier⁴, Thomas Sattler²

¹Bangor University, United Kingdom; ²Swiss Ornithological Institute; ³Oregon State University; ⁴Agroscope