Conference Agenda

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

Reut Vardi¹, Gopal Murali², Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetano^3,4, Uri Roll⁴, Shai Meiri^1,5

¹School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University 6997801, Tel Aviv, Israel; ²Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; ³Jacob Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; ⁴Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes of Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel; ⁵Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel

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

Giovanni Cilia¹, Soledad Sagastum², Antonio Nanetti¹, Raquel Martín Hernández²

¹Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA), Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economics Analysis, Bologna, Italy; ²CIAPA-IRIAF Centro de Investigacion Apícola de Marchamalo, Marchamalo, Spain

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

Theresia Krausl, Veronica Hederström, Yuanyuan Quan, Yann Clough

Lund University, Sweden

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

Thomas Pavey

WildCRU, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, UK

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

Domenico Amantea¹, Domenico Gargano¹, Gabriele Casazza²

¹Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Italy; ²Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Genoa, Italy

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

Teresa Sani^1,2,6, Fiorella Prada^1,3, Giulia Radi¹, Erik Caroselli^1,6, Giuseppe Falini^4,6, Zvy Dubinsky⁵, Stefano Goffredo^1,6

¹Marine Science Group, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Via F. Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy; ²Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies, National Research Council (IRBIM, CNR), Largo Fiera della Pesca 2, 60125 Ancona, Italy; ³Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA; ⁴Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy; ⁵The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel; ⁶Fano Marine Center, The Inter-Institute Center for Research on Marine Biodiversity, Resources and Biotechnologies, Viale Adriatico 1/N, 61032 Fano, Italy

Conservation measures facilitate Waterbird Responses to Climate Warming

Leonie Jonas¹, Elie Gaget², Martin Jung³, Jon E Brommer¹

¹University of Turku, Finland; ²Tour du Valat Research Institute for the Conservation of Mediterranean Wetlands, Arles, France; ³Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation Research Group, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

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

Davide Nepote Valentin¹, Chiara Richiardi^1,2, Martino Adamo^1,3, Stefano Mammola^3,4, Tiiu Kull⁵

¹Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Italy; ²Technology Laboratory for the Dynamics of Structures and Prevention of Seismic and Hydrogeological Risk (DISPREV), ENEA, Via Martiri di Monte Sole, 4, 40129 Bologna, Italy; ³NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo 90133, Italy; ⁴Molecular Ecology Group, Water Research Institute, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Verbania Pallanza, Italy; ⁵Department of Biodiversity and Nature Tourism, Estonian University of Life Sciences, 51014 Tartu, Estonia

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

Giulio Galla¹, Lucia Zanovello^1,2,3, Matteo Girardi¹, Stefano Casari¹, Irene Lo Presti¹, Paolo Pedrini², Giorgio Bertorelle³, Heidi C. Hauffe^1,4

¹Conservation Genomics Research Unit and Animal, Environmental and Antique DNA Platform, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, TN, Italy; ²Reasearch & Museum Collections Office, Conservation Biology Unit, Science Museum, Trento, Italy; ³Population Genetics and Genomics Group, Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy; ⁴National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), S.c.a.r.l., Palermo, Italy

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

Maria Soledad Andrade-Diaz¹, German Baldi², Maria Piquer-Rogriguez¹

¹Modelling Human-Environmental Interactions Group, Institute of Geography, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; ²Grupo de Estudios Ambientales, Instituto de Matemática Aplicada San Luis (CONICET & UNSL), Argentina