Conference Agenda

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

Carolin Wicke, Anna Sting, Amélie zu Eulenburg

German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval), Germany

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

Zhengxue Zhu¹, Stefano Chelli¹, James L. Tsakalos^1,2, Alessandro Bricca³, Roberto Canullo¹, Marco Cervellini¹, Riccardo Pennesi¹, Luciano L.M. De Benedictis¹, Vanessa Cesaroni¹, Giandiego Campetella¹

¹University of Camerino, Italy; ²Murdoch University, Australia; ³Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

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

Tal Gavriel¹, Jonathan Belmaker^1,2

¹School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; ²Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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

University of Novi Sad Faculty of Sciences, Serbia

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

Federica Fonda, Fabrizio Bullegas, Giovanni Bacaro

Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Italy

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

Karolina Chuda¹, Piotr Skórka¹, Łukasz Mikołajczyk¹, Johannes Knops², Magdalena Lenda¹

¹Institute of Nature Conservation PAS, Poland; ²Department of Health and Environmental Sciences at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.

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

Riccardo Testolin, Alessandro Chiarucci

BIOME Lab, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy

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

Lucia Bongiorni¹, Matthieu Bekaert¹, Andrea Barbanti¹, Martina Bocci², Eleonore Cambra¹, Alessandra Conversi¹, Ana C.M. Costa³, Fien de Raedemaecker⁴, Elena Gissi¹, Dunja Jusufovski⁵, Jonne Kotta⁵, Stefano Menegon¹, Kemal Pinarbasi⁶, Isabelle Rombouts⁴, Lawrence Watley⁴, Inne Withouck⁴, Francisco R. Barboza⁵

¹National Research Council, Institute of Marine Science (CNR-ISMAR); ²t-ELIKA; ³University of the Azores; ⁴Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ); ⁵University of Tartu; ⁶HELCOM

Sensitivity of REDD+ avoided deforestation estimates to matching specifications

Alejandro Guizar Coutiño¹, David Coomes², Tom Swinfield², Julia P.G. Jones³

¹The Biodiversity Consultancy, United Kingdom; ²University of Cambridge; ³Bangor University