Conference Agenda

A new synthesis of global evidence for the conservation of inland aquatic vegetation

Nigel G Taylor, Vanessa Cutts, William J Sutherland, Rebecca K Smith

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Surprising widespread Cymodocea nodosa occurrence along Israel’s Mediterranean coast and Implications for Seagrass Conservation in a hot spot of clim

Ori Hepner Ucko¹, Eduardo Arlé¹, Shahar Malamud^1,2, Gidon Winters^3,4, Jonathan Belmaker^1,2

¹School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; ²The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; ³The Dead Sea-Arava Science Center, Masada, Israel; ⁴Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat, Israel

Landscape fragmentation affects polypore diversity on multiple spatial scales

Anita Atrena, Fredrik Carlsson, Mattias Edman, Malin Undin, Bengt-Gunnar Jonsson

Midsweden University, Sweden

Navigating through murky waters: decision analysis provides a clear path forward for complex sturgeon reintroduction considerations

Thalassa McMurdo Hamilton¹, Alison Debney¹, John Ewen², Hannah McCormick¹

¹Zoological Society of London, United Kingdom; ²Institute of Zoology, ZSL, United Kingdom

Prevalence of Red List DD species limits the application of the EDGE approach for fungi

Susana P. Cunha^1,2, Susana C. Gonçalves^1,4, Grace Whitacre³, Cátia Canteiro^4,5, Steve Bachman², Eimear Nic Lughadha², Greg M. Mueller^4,6

¹Centre for Functional Ecology, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal; ²Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK; ³Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.; ⁴Fungal Conservation Committee, IUCN Species Survival Commission, Switzerland; ⁵Global Center for Species Survival, Indianapolis Zoo, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.; ⁶Chicago Botanic Garden, U.S.A

Towards a checklist of floras of Mediterranean islands

Francesco Santi¹, Alessandro Chiarucci¹, Riccardo Testolin¹, Piero Zannini¹, Federico Bombardi¹, Michele Di Musciano^2,1, Fabio Attorre³, Gianmaria Bonari⁴, Vanessa Bruzzaniti¹, Johannes Foufopoulos⁵, Emmanuel Garbolino⁶, Behlül Güler⁷, Lea Klepka⁸, Corrado Marcenò⁹, Frédéric Médail¹⁰, Maria Panitsa¹¹, Diletta Santovito¹, Željko Škvorc¹², Kiril Vassilev¹³, Marlene Katharina Volz¹⁴

¹University of Bologna, Italy; ²University of L'Aquila, Italy; ³Sapienza University, Rome, Italy; ⁴University of Siena, Italy; ⁵University of Michigan, USA; ⁶ISIGE - MINES Paris PSL, France; ⁷Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey; ⁸University of Marburg, Germany; ⁹University of Perugia, Italy; ¹⁰CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ, Avignon Université, IRD, IMBE, Aix-en-Provence, France; ¹¹University of Patras, Greece; ¹²University of Zagreb, Croatia; ¹³Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria; ¹⁴University of Innsbruck, Austria

Examining disturbance and environmental factors acting on true flies (Diptera, Brachycera) of Italian coastal sand dunes

Aleida Ascenzi¹, Lorenzo Marini², Vivian Feng³, Enrico Rosso⁴, Rudolf Meier³, Pierfilippo Cerretti¹

¹Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “Charles Darwin” & Museum of Zoology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Rome, Italy; ²Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment, (DAFNAE), University of Padua, Legnaro, Italy; ³Museum für Naturkunde, Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin, Germany; ⁴Eurac Research, Bolzano, Autonome Provinz Bozen - Südtirol, Italy.

Soil arthropod assemblages as indicators of advanced vegetation succession in a highly endangered Croatian peat bog

Fran Rebrina¹, Ana Ješovnik^2,3, Jana Bedek⁴, Vedran Šegota¹, Ana Novak-Perjanec⁵, Andreja Brigić¹

¹University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Horvatovac 102a, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia; ²Croatian Myrmecological Society, Gortanova 14, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia; ³National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 1000 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20560-0003, USA; ⁴Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia; ⁵Brestovečka ulica 43/1, HR-10360 Sesvete, Croatia

Successful reintroduction of the Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita) to Central Europe challenged by climate change and human made mortality

Bernhard Gönner¹, Johannes Fritz², Regina Kramer¹

¹Tiergarten Schönbrunn, Austria; ²Waldrappteam Conservation and Research, Austria